Yay‼️ GB News Channel about to launch ...

I will!

“GB News, From 8pm

The 24-hour news channel that plans to challenge the BBC and Sky News with a “new, diverse and impartial” service launches with an introductory show. Andrew Neil, one of the prime movers behind the channel, will welcome viewers, and will show off a few of its key talents, including anchor Alastair Stewart, former BBC News presenter Simon McCoy and ex-Sky man Colin Brazier. Showbiz reporter Dan Wootton will host a live daily show, kicking off tonight at 9pm, while Kirsty Gallacher is set to co-anchor the breakfast show. Available on Freeview 236, Sky HD 515, Virgin Media HD 626, YouView 236 and Freesat HD 216.”

Did anybody expect the Sunday Telegraph to warn us against a right wing news organisation? Anybody....?

Larger than life is always a worry, isn't it?

Hurray!!!. Sounds wonderful. At last, a broadcaster that will give good news, fun news and purports to be "unbiaised"!
I shall be glued from 8 p.m.

Only the same as the Guardian praising Ch.4 News.
It’s good to have a counter-balance.
Healthy even!

So Andrew Neil will have nothing to do with fake news.

The whole brexit project was based on fake news peddled by the Leave campaign and cheered on by his Spectator magazine.

frenchie

Am sure the hard Right will love it!

Yes frenchie, looks to me like another vanity project for rich, privileged old white men to punt their views. Will almost certainly be London/England centric. Are there any women involved in this? Sounding very 'Fox News'.

Will almost certainly be London/England centric

Nope, not true welshgirl. It’s going to have regional flavours. Michelle Dewberry for one will be focussing on the N.E. This channel will have something for most of us to relate to.

Andrew Neil will have nothing to do with fake news.

I re-posted a tweet of his on this thread at 10:05 on Tuesday that was literally fake news.

Yes 3 main presenters are women.

It will be good to ignore the toxic Twitterati.

It was Andrew Neil's tweet. Like, written and posted by him.

This from The Guardian.
"Andrew Neil will be launching the grassroots fightback against snobbery and metropolitan hauteur while commuting from his home in the south of France"

welshgirl2017

frenchie

Am sure the hard Right will love it!

Yes frenchie, looks to me like another vanity project for rich, privileged old white men to punt their views. Will almost certainly be London/England centric. Are there any women involved in this? Sounding very 'Fox News'.

Why don’t you tune in now and look at all the black women who will be presenting.
Maybe that might change your opinion, but I very much doubt it.

Welshgirl
Here’s a pic of one of the old white presenters
www.heraldscotland.com/news/19365417.neil-oliver-lockdown-biggest-single-mistake-world-history/

FannyCornforth

'Great stuff guys!' - Bogbrush

Ah, a fellow Private Eye subscriber...

I was really looking forward to it, but looking at the lineup so far, it looks a bit grim.

Dan Wootton?! ?
Dewbs & Co?! ?

It looks just like the televisual version of Talk Radio.
I'll be watching Neil, and giving the other presenters a go (bar Wootton, who I wouldn't give the time of day too, to be polite).
It's very disappointing.
I can't see it lasting long

Thanks Gill! ?

MerylStreep

Welshgirl
Here’s a pic of one of the old white presenters
www.heraldscotland.com/news/19365417.neil-oliver-lockdown-biggest-single-mistake-world-history/

I don't get this....Oliver is an old white bloke, albeit with a new beard and dubious ideas about lockdown.

I did like his book on the history of Scotland though.

^Michelle Dewberry for one will be focussing on the N.E. Oh save us from this! Winner of The Apprentice who quite the job before her contract period was up. Failed politician. Pro-Brexit apparently. Couldn't we have Scarlett Moffat instead???

It does make you realise when Andrew Neil is launching a news Channel that the age of TV news is over and on-line is the future.

tickingbird

Kali2 You did. You couldn’t help yourself. Love Andrew Neil; he pulls no punches. Not keen on Dan Wooton or Piers Morgan but I’m looking forward to it. Cue much gnashing of teeth from the lofty heights of the morally superior ?

There are certainly a few on GN.

Ellan

lemongrove and tickingbird, I think that you have both been both dismissive and incredibly rude to Aneeba
There's absolutely no need for it

No they were absolutely right, to call her out. Another example of supposedly intellectual superiority, calling others ignorant and of spreading ignorance, because they may watch a news channel that may not be as left wing as she would like it to be, that was rude. It hasn’t even been broadcast yet for goodness sake.

Alegrias1
We obviously have different definitions of what constitutes old He is 54.

He's hardly in the first flush of youth

He's younger than me so that makes 2 of us....

Neil is 52!! Blimey