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As part of the changes. comedian Dolan will front Tonight Live With Mark Dolan on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
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Blimey, they have actually employed a professional sand-up comedian, that's upping their game from the amateur comedians they have employed so far. :D

GB News added that he will also appear on other shows.
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No shit, Sherlock, we wouldn't expect otherwise, considering most of the 'guests' are other GBN presenters anyway, because you're struggling to get guests to go anywhere near the shambles.

metro.co.uk

GB News recruits comedian Mark Dolan amid plummeting viewers

There's already been a shake-up of the presenting line-up.
metro.co.uk metro.co.uk
 
I mean, it is marketing genius to have Farage down the pub, he often passed the "who would you have a pint with" test that comes up from time to time. His value is tainted - with his Trump relationship and post-UKIP slump - though this shouldn't be easily dismissed. He's a crank. He's a loon.. He's quite unaware of his many failings. But he's onto a personal winner here - drinking pints, talking about being anti-everything, that's exactly the voter base which delivered Brexit, and from the bar of the Old Bull and Bush to boot.

Savvy from GB News. Depressing like, I mean, it's possibly another career rejuvenation. But savvy.
 
PR1Berske said:
I mean, it is marketing genius to have Farage down the pub, he often passed the "who would you have a pint with" test that comes up from time to time. His value is tainted - with his Trump relationship and post-UKIP slump - though this shouldn't be easily dismissed. He's a crank. He's a loon.. He's quite unaware of his many failings. But he's onto a personal winner here - drinking pints, talking about being anti-everything, that's exactly the voter base which delivered Brexit, and from the bar of the Old Bull and Bush to boot.

Savvy from GB News. Depressing like, I mean, it's possibly another career rejuvenation. But savvy.
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Hopefully Al Murray isn't feeling litigious because he cornered the market in racist pub landlord skits.

At this point Gbeebies has nothing left. No matter who they hire they'll just end up imitating satire that has existed now for years. They can't get past that
 
If I was looking to replace staff who were leaving in their droves I would also call the roles newly created. Sounds a lot more appealing to new candidates than we've basically got a recruitment revolving door.

I've not seen any of the channel and have no intention of watching it but am finding the commentary here amusing. What I don't understand is that there are hundreds of thousands of tiny youtube channels which are little more than a one person operation with a few thousand subscribers yet who manage decent sound and pictures. Decent editing as well. I know live TV presents a lot of different problems but I don't understand why this is all so technically awful.

They have a reasonable budget and seemingly hired in some people with experience. I don't understand why the quality is shitter than Barry on youtube reviewing super strength lager from his local tab shop.
 
Teaboy said:
If I was looking to replace staff who were leaving in their droves I would also call the roles newly created. Sounds a lot more appealing to new candidates than we've basically got a recruitment revolving door.

I've not seen any of the channel and have no intention of watching it but am finding the commentary here amusing. What I don't understand is that there are hundreds of thousands of tiny youtube channels which are little more than a one person operation with a few thousand subscribers yet who manage decent sound and pictures. Decent editing as well. I know live TV presents a lot of different problems but I don't understand why this is all so technically awful.

They have a reasonable budget and seemingly hired in some people with experience. I don't understand why the quality is shitter than Barry on youtube reviewing super strength lager from his local tab shop.
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Having done a fair bit of research (har) lately about podcasts, I think that the issue with GB News looks a lot like the issue with a lot of n00b podcasters - because they don't know what they don't know, everything looks straightforward, and it becomes very easy to assume that you can just plug a few bits in together and it'll all work just fine.

My hunch is that when GB News started up, it didn't bother hiring in good-quality professionals, but thought they could do it all on a shoestring. Now they're finding out why those expensive-looking, hard-to-hire types are expensive and hard to hire - because they're doing a job that they know is nowhere near as straightforward as the idiots behind GB News thought.

I've seen the same thing loads of times in IT - as a contractor, there were a few times when I was hired in to "make Joe in Purchasing's spreadsheet-based stock control system" work. Usually the contract ended abruptly when I pointed out that they were going to have to completely start from scratch, because Joe in Purchasing's solution was doomed from the start, and they were going to need to make some investment in database servers, and proper software. On one occasion I know of, the contractor who was hired in to replace me was given exactly the same brief, and. like me, lasted a couple of months before either he baled, or was got rid of.
 
The over night viewing figures gives Farage's show 96k viewers, with Dewberry in that time slot, it was down to just 7.5k.

So, they will be pleased with that, until the novelty wears off, and viewing figures fall off a cliff.
 
Anagrams of Nigel Farage. Sadly, I can only come up with ones that he would be OK with. Better tries encouraged.

Fag, ale, grin

Regain flag
 
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