I think it’s unlikely they’d go for someone who’s known for just as newsreader like Dermot.* Someone with a bit more edge or known for more general entertainment presenting is more likely, like Holmes, Madeley or Ray.
*I know Dermot has done Eggheads, but even that was a very newsreader style of the delivery.
Aimee Vivian on Capital just now said Anne-Marie started following ITV around the same time it was announced Piers was leaving. They're running with a Susanna and Anne-Marie pairing theory.
I don’t know much about Anne-Marie, other than that she’s on The Voice so therefore a singer. But I think it’s pretty unlikely.
Away from Piersgate, it was interesting to see the BBC News graphics overlaid on top of the GMB ones this morning (and how much everything lined up so neatly).
I know I’m as guilty as any of you. But the next one to mention rotas or potential successors for Piers has to get the drinks in.
Triple G&T for me.
FWIW, I rather like the desk. My first proper chance to see it was during Piers’ walk-off. The aerial view showed it to good effect. I like it.
I don’t know if it was due to last minute circumstances today, but the voiceover announcing Susanna and Ranvir sounded rather weak. Almost as though the music was drowning it out.
Going back to presentation, as I mentioned last week they’ve really doubled down on the debate format now with the, in my own opinion, absolutely awful new desk. I believe Erron Gordon mentioned on Twitter the sofa has also now been dumped.
If you compare GMB’s two sets, you can really see the difference between them. Any sense of being a ‘typical’ daytime show has now absolutely disappeared with the current set. All of the fake windows, side tables, etc. which gave the show a slightly homely feel have gone - it’s very much a studio in a way that is very alien to daytime TV on the whole. It’s quite a masculine space now IMO, almost to a comical degree in some ways. The format that design concept is based off, however, has vanished in an instant.
I can personally see this enormous, imposing and slightly gopping (remind you of anybody...) desk being ditched as the format softens. I think we’ll see a much friendlier set design return as they work out what to actually do with the format.
Away from Piersgate, it was interesting to see the BBC News graphics overlaid on top of the GMB ones this morning (and how much everything lined up so neatly).
I don't know why, but having two clocks in the picture is somewhat unsettling. It just feels wrong in some way.
The desk is just far too long, and doesn't look right on the wider shots. What about a BBC News 1993-1999 variation of a desk, remember their curved desk used for their computer generated studio design. Would that style look better?
