tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4802567794111313334.post4060796159333662600..comments2023-06-21T09:35:57.565+01:00Comments on Trying to borrow a fiver off...: Wonderful to be with you againIan Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10220962051392602822noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4802567794111313334.post-56547382758304294292007-05-11T10:02:00.000+01:002007-05-11T10:02:00.000+01:00I recently saw Alistair Stewart having a fag outsi...I recently saw Alistair Stewart having a fag outside ITV's HQ in Grays Inn Road. It was reassuring, really. If he was on a break, it meant the world couldn't have gone to shit.Graham Kibble-Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08932332730402248501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4802567794111313334.post-86817674703335114642007-05-10T18:35:00.000+01:002007-05-10T18:35:00.000+01:00At the time of Election 97, Krishnan Guru Murthy w...At the time of Election 97, Krishnan Guru Murthy would have been reporting on Newsnight, which for a time he combined with reporting on The National Lottery Live, before Newsnight told him to stop.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, John Tusa only read the One O'Clock News for a year or so, but he then kept on coming back to do stuff like D-Day, VE Day and The Hong Kong Handover, because they weren't classed as news programmes, but events, and Tusa was a mate of Philip S Gilbert who ran the events department, so kept on doing them even when he was slagging off the Beeb. And it meant they had to send two lots of reporters, with Raymond Baxter and Eric Robson and so on doing them live, then the news lot doing them for the news.<BR/><BR/>I don't think that department exists anymore, given the lack of "The Day's Events" at 11pm anymore.<BR/><BR/>When Dermot Murnaghan left ITN to join the Beeb, ITN immediately shoved him on gardening leave. And then asked him back the next day because they were short staffed.Steve Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870981671564008402noreply@blogger.com