{"id":756,"date":"2007-12-20T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2007-12-20T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T21:21:00","slug":"tv-news-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/12\/tv-news-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"TV news in 2008&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>n 2007, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Mark Thompson<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Peter Horrocks<\/span> apparently walked into a meeting of top <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span> talent and declared &#8211; not untruthfully &#8211; \u201cThere is no market for newsreaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately \u201ceven a dead cat bounces\u201d (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Natasha Kaplinsky<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dermot Murnaghan<\/span> both left the BBC for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sky<\/span>. Still, probably saved Peter a few bob.<\/p>\n<p>So what will be making the news about TV news in 2008?<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><br \/>At the Beeb, 2008 will be a year of redundancies, budget cuts, and salami slicing in TV news. How do you like your budget cuts? Chunky chorizo or saucisson sec? Among those having their milano sausage shaved, BBC <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Newsnight<\/span>, where <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jeremy Paxman<\/span> will take early retirement after being required to work four nights a week.<\/p>\n<p>In a controversial move the programme will be outsourced to a different think tank each month, with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dean Godson<\/span> of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Policy Exchange<\/span> as launch editor and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Charles Moore<\/span> replacing<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Gavin Esler<\/span>. Their motto? Bigger stories, less evidence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">News 24<\/span> launches a new +1 digital service. A press release promises: \u201cThe news &#8211; as it happened\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>BBC News will appoint a floods correspondent, specially equipped with a glass-bottomed, satellite linked mini-submarine. Summer 2008 will be the hottest and driest on record.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alan Yentob<\/span> announces he\u2019s leaving the BBC to become the new face of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Churchill Car Insurance<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>On <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV<\/span>, viewers will be able to buy their own share in the company for less than the price of a text. <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">News At Ten<\/span> will return, win awards but no viewers, and by December <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Grade<\/span>\u2019s successor will be declaring it a critical success but a commercial failure, and asking to run one early evening news programme \u2013 preferably at 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>To counter the ITV move, the BBC <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">10<\/span> will be re-titled <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">The One To Watch For News \u2013 At Ten (with Kate Silverton)<\/span>.  In another innovative move, Silverton won\u2019t actually present the programme, or be told about any of the stories in it, but will stand outside on a different street every night to introduce and close it with a new tag line that viewers\u2019ll have the chance to vote on: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And now the weather<\/li>\n<li>And now over to our regional newsrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The continuing importance of current affairs on BBC1 will be highlighted as <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Panorama<\/span> goes five nights a week. Confusingly, in the schedules this will appear as <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Tonight with Jonathan Ross<\/span>. Ross\u2019s increased role, and public service remit, will go some way to meeting criticism of his salary.<\/p>\n<p>And just to show there are no hard feelings, redundant BBC journalists will find their \u201cpackages\u201d include invitations to feature as members of Ross\u2019s studio audience.<\/p>\n<p>Current Affairs across ITV will be consolidated. <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Tonight with Trevor MacDonald<\/span> will be replaced by <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">I\u2019m An Economist, Get Me Out Of Here<\/span> on ITV4, with leading members of the Bank of England\u2019s monetary policy committee forced to live like celebrities whilst the public are asked to set interest rates by text vote.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, after hearing that editors no longer want bulletins read by alcoholics who have been kicked out by their long-suffering partners, 24-hour TV newsdesks have to call round presenters to persuade them to turn up for work regardless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Horrocks apparently walked into a meeting of top BBC talent and declared &#8211; not untruthfully &#8211; \u201cThere is no market for newsreaders.\u201d Unfortunately \u201ceven a dead cat bounces\u201d (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,19,16,176,145],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-bbc","tag-itn","tag-itv-news","tag-news-at-ten","tag-sky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}