BBC presenters!

I agree with ‘Its who you know’ in presenting. Look at all the offspring that have jobs. They start young; look at Chris Evans’ son and all the Dad and their lad journeys and experiences on TV.

We actually have a very good presenter on our local BBC who has been in the job for 35 years and knows the area very well. He does a regional version of Sunday Politics and is good at getting an informative discussion from politicians of different parties.

He does not project his own ego in the way the likes of Andrew Neil, John Humphries and Laura Kuenssberg do. I don't know whether he might ever have been offered a move to London, but if he did, I'm glad he stayed here.

Years ago I had some children performing at an opening of a huge new shopping centre. A celebrity presenter was comparing. She was a household name at the time and a very nice person btw. She admitted to me that she was useless at impromptu presenting as she’d become reliant on auto cue. She asked me to help her fill in her intro with relevant details so we went on together and did a bit of a double act! ?

Naga Manchetty……..ugh! Awful!
We like House of Games but Paul Martin has dyslexia and should not have gone on there.

Another fan of the House of Games here.
It’s the fastest half an hour of telly on and yes embarrassing revealing for some .....Paul Martin comes to mind indeed!

APEGIRL. We too have a reporter on our local evening news whose voice grates. He’s so boring and annoying. Despite several complaints he’s still droning on. I turn the sound down and watch the subtitles when he’s on!

Another fan of House of Games. I feel sorry for some of the participants as there is no place to hide on some rounds. The spelling is very revealing and often surprising. I too expected Angela Ribbon to do better, and as for poor Paul Martin, well he couldn’t spell for toffee!
The comedians always do well as they are very quick. I’m sad enough to google their backgrounds and most are Oxbridge grads.

We have a presenter on local BBC radio who screeches, talks to us listeners like infants, and cackles regularly. If I know she is going to be on, I switch off. She also calls guests ‘my love’, ‘my dear’ etc. Despite complaining to the station, she irritatingly remains.

With a very tiny bit of inside knowledge It seems that the BBC is more interested in being politically correct by hiring people who tick one of the minority boxes than in actual ability to do the job. And yes, there's a lot of .who you know'.

Oops "I guess that presenters literally read out what’s in front of them" Yes, I think that annoys me far more than any lack of knowledge. Imo anyone paid to read the news should be able to do so with the emphasis and pauses in the right place and not simply at the end of the line on the auto cue. We hear things like: China has a pandemic..................... of coronavirus and doctors .................. are etc. I may be alone in this as it doesn't bother DH!

I am not keen on the lass who presents the One Show. Apparently she is very highly paid, though I can't say I'd ever seen her on television prior to the One Show. I find her a total air-head and therefore rarely watch it. Even some of the guests seem embarrassed to be on it, though I presume they're well paid for appearing. Prime time drivel.

I agree about Pointless, we now watch the Chase instead, Bradley Walsh is funny and doesn’t pretend to be what he isn’t

Septimia...Having worked at the BEEB for many years, I've seen how they get their jobs....recruites enter with low value Media Studies degrees. They are often unable to hold a conversation, can't spell and work initially as expenses only programme researchers all hours God sends in the hope they'll get spotted for presentation jobs.
Imo the Media Studies Degree appears to be one of the least challenging given the graduates that the Beebs recruited. It was who you knew rather than what you knew that got you through the doors of that media organisation.

Agree about SF. Would also put Anita Annand somewhere up there too.

Sodapop I find Osmond and Armstrong irritating on Pointless. They go over things so many tines just to hear their own voices it seems.

Me too, Soda. I don't find them funny.

Richard Osman has a delightful manner and I love the quirkiness of the games that are devised on “House of Games”. The comedians on the panel seem to excel which is, perhaps, because they deal with words, puns, etc in their work. Yes, I too thought Angela Rippon was disappointing. If you want to watch more past shows, you can find them on the Dave channel at 7.00 pm.

I think SF should have her own radio station, select and train all the staff, all cabinet ministers to appear on it when she summons them and all other radio stations to be closed down.

Suziew IMO Everyone should listen to Shelagh Fogarty and other programmes on LBC for a fuller and more honest reporting of what is actually going on. The phone ins are a real eye opener.

Annodomini agree completely, I guess that presenters literally read out what’s in front of them and don’t particularly need any knowledge, I was surprised thought that Angela Rippon hadn’t heard of Durdle Door ( er Durdle um er Cove?)
The comics seem to do quite well though, but they all seem to be nice people who are having a good time. We enjoy it and can usually answer most of the the questions, but not always in the time limit........

I find Osmond and Armstrong irritating on Pointless. They go over things so many tines just to hear their own voices it seems.

We’ll start a fan club Parsley

Another huge fan of Shelagh Fogarty on LBC. She is excellent because she is knowledgeable about the topics under discussion and is intelligent enough to challenge callers’ views if they need challenging. Also, unlike some of the other LBC presenters, she brings no ego into the debate but just reasoned argument and common sense.

I just wish richard Oman would stop asking “how did you get on at home.” It grates after a while... but oh my word the lack geographical knowledge of even just Europe?

But then, some of the youngsters on University Challege are amazing.

This week, on House of Games, Angela Rippon was sadly disappointing. I must have expected more from a newsreader of the older generation!