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A couple of years ago SkyNews set up a Thursday night show called the Pledge which had lots of right wing commentators such as Carole Malone and Nick Ferrari and Michelle Dewberry with the likes as Rachel Johnson and Afua Hirsch supposedly providing balance. The show lasted about a year before being dropped presumably because it wasn't pulling in the viewers.

Andrew Neil appears to have created an entire news channel along the lines of The Pledge and hopefully it will go the same way as the Pledge.

Ferrari, Malone and Dan Wootton may well go down well with the Talk Radio crowd but I'm not sure that they really appeal to TV audiences.

[Youngian]

Ferrari, Malone and Dan Wootton may well go down well with the Talk Radio crowd but I'm not sure that they really appeal to TV audiences.

Radio is cheaper to produce so doesn’t need such large audience figures. Murdoch found out with Sky that you couldn’t cut and paste a tabloid model onto British TV. Expectations are higher and even the least media savvy viewers find cheap production values irksome. It all depends on the audience figures GBNews can survive on.
Its not big or funny, warns ex-BBC man who traded his former career for a dumpster fire

[Malcolm Armsteen]

What a bollock.

[zuriblue]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Here's one for them.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

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[Malcolm Armsteen]

From Popbitch:

>> Big Quesions <<
A GB News special

Which GB News host once spent the night in the clink after the police were called to cool down a domestic dispute?

Which GB News host was once locked in their dressing room by bosses at a previous job as they were visibly far too hammered to appear on camera?

Which GB News host once used a catfish profile on a dating site?

Which GB News host was once described by an admiring crew member as so hard-living he "hadn't seen anyone that fucked since my days touring with Joe Cocker in the 60s... and he had an arm full of heroin"?

[davidjay]

Has it ever occurred to them that if they were as much a majority as they think, advertisers would want to work with them rather than run a mile?

[Andy McDandy]

From Popbitch:

>> Big Quesions <<
A GB News special

Which GB News host once spent the night in the clink after the police were called to cool down a domestic dispute?

Which GB News host was once locked in their dressing room by bosses at a previous job as they were visibly far too hammered to appear on camera?

Which GB News host once used a catfish profile on a dating site?

Which GB News host was once described by an admiring crew member as so hard-living he "hadn't seen anyone that fucked since my days touring with Joe Cocker in the 60s... and he had an arm full of heroin"?

My money's on Dewberry and McCoy for 1 and 2. Not sure about the others, but the idea of Andrew Neill high on the horse is now lodged in my brain. Oh yes, Wootton for 3.

[Bones McCoy]

Deceit rides a gammon horse (From Debrett's alternative horsemen of the Apocalypse).

Funnily enough Wooton is how I imagine Rylan Clarke-Neal after a 6 week junk-food binge.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This might actually be an attempted segue that went wrong. But it's not Walt Cronkite whatever.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is first night of Central South standard.

If you haven't seen the Central South 1989 disaster, it's worth a couple of minutes of your time.

Live from.... Abingdon. Which is such an unimportant place that the viewers, all local, had to be told which county it's in. Also a classic of the "local angle on a disaster" genre (fair enough with the dead guy from Coleford, but the stewardess from Aylesbury getting cuts and bruises?)

I'm pleased to say the show (and its presenters) recovered from this disaster.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Former Tory adviser speaking here. He sounds a right laugh.

[Crabcakes]

If there's one thing people* replying to criticism/pisstakes of GB news keep insisting, it's that those taking them to task/taking the piss are only doing so because they're scared of it being so disruptive - and definitely *not* because it's both very dodgy in parts and hilariously shit.

See also: Corbyn, J.

*I say people. I mean shills, trolls and suck-ups.

[Bones McCoy]

This "Drop the dead donkey" reboot has gone too far.

[Samanfur]

That's an insult to Globelink News.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm thinking more KYTV.

[Spoonman]

"But I suppose technical fails are only funny when it's channel you're scared is going to disrupt the metropolitan left monopoly on TV news. "

To quote Stephen Colbert, "reality has a liberal bias".

[Cyclist]

I'm thinking Samanfur's signature line applies to this shower.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep.