BBC North West Tonight

surely that's imso, in my sexist opinion.

I think there might be a case for positive discrimination, possibly.

BBC1 North West are showing a special about the Palace of Glittering Delights that is New Broadcasting House, Manchester, on Sunday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0121jkb

Watched it.

Anyone else of the opinion, if they chopped the 'regional' 5 mins bit early on, it would make an acceptable network programme?

(Surely if Tess Daly was presenting, is that the ultimate aim?)

It's a shame that apart from a clip of Take That on the 8:15 from Manchester at the start of the programme no other Children's programmes were featured, even though 'Yoof' shows were.

In the 1980's the BBC had a large Children's department in Manchester producing the Summer Saturday morning programmes, Cheggers Plays Pop etc.

Am I right in thinking that It's A Knockout was only tenuously a BBC Manchester production? I thought it was produced by Barney Colehan who was based in Leeds, and thus came under Manchester's wing.

Just watched the programme. A lot of it contained very tenuous links. I'm not sure what is was celebrating in fact, BBC Manchester, or Manchester based production ? Even then, where does 'Boys from the Blackstuff' fit in ? A BBC Pebble Mill production, shot in Liverpool ?
A great deal of the remaining stuff featured were Granada productions, commissioned perhaps by BBC Manchester, but so what ?

It's A Knockout wasn't even a BBC format, and the most memorable eps (the international ones) obviously weren't even shot in the UK, never mind Manchester.

Don't get me wrong, the North West has produced some fabulous stuff over the last 50 years, much of it internationally acclaimed, but actually the home to most of it has been Quay St, and not the Oxford Road.

Indeed, that's what I was thinking. 'Groundbreaking' is not a word I'd use to describe much of Oxford Road's output.

New co-presenter, replacing Gordon Burns from October, is announced as BBC South's sports presenter Roger Johnson - a familar voice on sports reports and commentaries too:
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/roger-johnson-the-new-co-presenter-for-bbc-north-west-tonight-20110711100951537

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southtoday/content/articles/2007/01/04/roger_johnson_feature.shtml

Hmm interesting appointment, I'm quite surprised they weren't keeping the seat warm for Tony Livesey, can't say I've seen Roger present, but it's a strong appointment.

He's deputised as the main presenter on South Today plenty of times, as well as regularly filling in on the BBC News Channel. I'd imagine his thoughts are that this job will mean that he can continue, and potentially expand his work at BBC Sport.

I've seen him on the News Channel a few times. He's okay but not sure if he has the same charisma and warmth as Gordon.

I personally think it should have just gone single-headed with Ranvir.