Oh dear - Evan Davis to replace Paxman on Newsnight.

Oh dear - Evan Davis to replace Paxman on Newsnight.

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MarshPhantom

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9,658 posts

136 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Is this a good decision? Not as far as I'm concerned. I don't like him on Today and I don't watch Dragon's Den.
He comes across like some overgrown children's TV presenter, his interviews on Today usually give his guests a very easy ride.


Eric Mc

121,788 posts

264 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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He was fine as an economics reporter. I'm not sure he has enough gravitas to be an anchor man on a major news programme. I find his questioning on Today rather scatty and poorly thought out, sometimes.

vxr8mate

1,654 posts

188 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I agree, he's not exactly one of the heavy hitters when it comes to the awkward interview.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Lightweight. Poor decision.

0000

13,812 posts

190 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Oh dear.

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

152 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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If not him then who else on the BBC payroll?

I can't think of anyone, although Evan Davis didn't spring to mind either!

Mr. Potato Head

1,142 posts

218 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Replacing Paxman is like replacing Fergie.
Ergo: Evan Davies = David Moyes.

MarshPhantom

Original Poster:

9,658 posts

136 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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AndrewEH1 said:
If not him then who else on the BBC payroll?

I can't think of anyone, although Evan Davis didn't spring to mind either!
Eddie Mair would be good but wouldn't want him to leave PM.

Peston?


MarshPhantom

Original Poster:

9,658 posts

136 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Mr. Potato Head said:
Replacing Paxman is like replacing Fergie.
Ergo: Evan Davies = David Moyes.
The BBC tends not to admit when they have made a mistake.

birdcage

2,838 posts

204 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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MarshPhantom said:
AndrewEH1 said:
If not him then who else on the BBC payroll?

I can't think of anyone, although Evan Davis didn't spring to mind either!
Eddie Mair would be good but wouldn't want him to leave PM.

Peston?
peston can barely get a statment out, drives me mad

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I'll reserve judgment, he's probably more versatile that we're giving him credit for - if you're looking for someone's who's already a Paxman, but younger you won't find anyone.

For me, it's important he be himself and find his own way - if he tries to be JP clone it'll be st.

There's nothing that says Newsnight has to be presented by a thuggish, weather hating big noise - as much as we like him.

droopsnoot

11,817 posts

241 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I've only seen him on Dragon's Den, and his annoying way of repeating what everyone has just said in case we weren't paying attention is the main reason I stopped watching it. So annoying it even moved me to writing to the BBC to complain, for all the good that did.

ATG

20,488 posts

271 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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First rate decision, I would say. And a pity for the Today programme.

Evan Davis has the sharpest mind of any BBC journalist I've encountered. His grasp of economics is first rate. He doesn't just parrot pre-prepared questions; he can string together questions on the fly to pin interviewees down and properly examine their responses. There are very few broadcast journalists who are really capable of that. I've mentioned it before, but he has taken Ed Balls apart on the Today programme. Paxman would not have been able to do the same.

Eric Mc

121,788 posts

264 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Before Paxman we had Peter Snow and John Tusa. I liked Tusa.

Beati Dogu

8,865 posts

138 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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John Tusa was good. His son Francis is a defence expert that pops up now & then on the likes of Sky News.

The Don of Croy

5,977 posts

158 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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ATG said:
...but he has taken Ed Balls apart on the Today programme....
To be fair, some of what Ed Balls comes out with is so far removed from the truth that anybody who is even half awake should be able to de-construct his outpourings.

Mr. Davis has a good laugh with business cronies on the radio (Bottom Line - not a reference to drugs and bum-banditry) but he comes across as an identikit BBC clone: right-on, androgenous, bland. Big ears too.

Much prefer someone like Jeff Randall or even Rod Liddle.

MarshPhantom

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9,658 posts

136 months

Friday 8th August 2014
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James O'Brien has been pretty good this week, quite impressed. Shame he won't be getting the full time job.

I still think Evan Davis would be better off presenting The One Show.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Does anyone know who is going to replace him on the Today Programme?

Hopefully someone a bit better at disguising his opinion on things.

blindswelledrat

25,257 posts

231 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Eric Mc said:
He was fine as an economics reporter. I'm not sure he has enough gravitas to be an anchor man on a major news programme.
Well phrased.
My instant, and less PC response to this news was that a token mong with a twisted face is all very well for crappy bit-parts as a brief slot on a bigger programme but to use him to replace one of the most iconic presenters of our generation is like a bad joke on both the viewers and on him.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Thursday 2nd October 2014
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Dammit, I wanted Laura Kuenssberg, she's got better legs (yes, I'm shallow).