I never really liked the massive 2005-2018 Sky News Centre. I might have rose-tinted glasses on, but I think the on-screen look just before the move was one of their best:
Oh and I've got another one: I don't care for the Katty & Christian show on BBC News. Never have - full of those awful manufactured moments for social media. Trying too hard to be 'with it' rather than just presenting the news.
I've had to keep my mouth shut with these opinions on here for many years!
I'm going to break TV Forum with this one: I've never understood why people find Simon McCoy funny.
Simon I think is very good at balancing light and shade and is good on 'lighter' stories but yeah it does seem pretty blatant sometimes that some stories are purely put in the running order to get a viral moment from Simon and it feels rather forced these days.
Also while I think both Jon Sopel and Emily Matlis are superb journalists (and cannot stress that enough) I remember when they were a regular News Channel pairing finding it a bit 'odd' how some posters seemed to treat them almost as the news version of 'Ant & Dec'.
I never really "got" either why opinions seemed to changed so dramatically about Lukwesa Burak and Carrie Gracie in recent times. Both seemed as good as ever (and IMO in Lukwesa's case her presentation style seems far warmer these days than in her last few years at Sky).
I don't think I have any deep thoughts here - apart from wanting more custom brand typefaces to be made, and using them in more places - and not just in the UK.
Oh and I've got another one: I don't care for the Katty & Christian show on BBC News. Never have - full of those awful manufactured moments for social media. Trying too hard to be 'with it' rather than just presenting the news.
I've had to keep my mouth shut with these opinions on here for many years!
I totally agree with you! I wish we felt that we could have said this before!
Though to completely contradict what I said above I do rather miss the Afternoon Live era of Kay Burley. It was unintentional comedy gold - you never knew what was going to come next or how Kay may stick her foot in it. There was never a dull moment whether it was her saying 'anybody who's on Twitter has no friends', not knowing about Ash Wednesday ("I'm a bad Christian, I hang my head in shame, I'll be back after the break" remains my favourite link to a break ever) , making Peter Andre cry, the Chris Bryant incident and many other such moments.
There was that ridiculous TOTH sequence too where you had Kay sprinting half way across the studio as the voiceover took place and walking up some steps (I'm honestly surprised nobody tripped over those). As a news programme it wasn't great but you couldn't take your eyes off it.
