5 Live is having a shake up and a reshuffle …..women are getting thinner on the ground and not much to keep Lenny Henry happy.
Derbyshire and Bacon are out….Adrian Chiles and Peter Allen doing Derbyshire’s shift on a job share basis….any bets Derbyshire won’t be working from Salford anymore? Peter Allen slipping into Derbyshire’s high heels means there will be no shortage of comment on this site.
Sheila Fogarty is also off unfortunately, and no mention is made of Campbell.
Derbyshire told us of her departure today and said we could find details in the Press and on the Guardian’s website….not sure why anyone at the BBC would be promoting the Guardian website.
Richard Bacon and Victoria Derbyshire to leave 5 live
Richard Bacon and Victoria Derbyshire, two of the biggest names on 5 live, are to leave the station later this year.
Shelagh Fogarty will also move on in the autumn as part of a daytime shake-up for the BBC talk radio station.
Derbyshire said it would be “a huge wrench to leave”, while Bacon said he would “always be grateful” to 5 live.
The new schedule will see Adrian Chiles and Peter Allen host a new mid-morning programme, 5 live Daily, and a new afternoon show on every day but Friday.
Chiles will host 5 live Daily in the 10:00 to 13:00 slot on Mondays and Tuesdays, with Allen hosting for the rest of the week.
BBC Sport presenter Dan Walker and BBC Northern Ireland’s Sarah Brett will co-host the other new show, Afternoon Edition, from 13:00 to 16:00 on Monday to Thursday.
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode’s Film Review show will retain the afternoon slot on Fridays after a new Friday Sports Panel between 13:00 and 14:00.
Tony Livesey will take on Allen’s current role as co-presenter of Drive, with Chris Warburton taking over Livesey’s slot on Weekend Breakfast.
Punditry show Fighting Talk will also have two new hosts in Georgie Thompson and stand-up comedian Josh Widdicombe.
“Victoria, Shelagh and Richard have all played such key roles delivering fantastic live radio and I wish them every success with their future projects,” said 5 live controller Jonathan Wall.
“This Autumn feels the right time to refresh parts of our schedule as we follow on from what’s already proving to be a wonderful sporting summer.”
“5 live has been a spectacular place to work, I’ve got nothing but good things to say about it,” said Bacon, whose new projects include a BBC One talent search for “Britain’s best amateur painter”.
“It’s been a hugely important part of my career and life, and I’ll always be grateful, and a listener.”
In her own statement, Fogarty said 5 live had given her “some of the happiest times and richest experiences” of her working life.
“I’m very sad to be leaving but it’s definitely time to do so,” she went on. “I’m spending the summer exploring a number of opportunities, before deciding what’s next.”
Adrian Chiles is spread quite thin across terrestrial broadcasting these days. I guess he can’t be seen on BBC-TV whilst his ITV contract is still oustanding, who knows, but he seems to be hedging his bets somewhat.
A quick look at the Basic Broadcasting accounts shows how well his service company is doing though…. http://companycheck.co.uk/company/03180257
I don’t begrudge anyone their success, but speaking personally I find Mr Chiles’ faux blokiness and capacity for dumbing down somewhat grating.
… and going straight from Nicky Campbell to Adrian Chiles of a morning is just too much to bare…
Snifer Bacon going and VD is always good to get rid off. I thought Fogarty tried to be even handed, so I would keep her. St Nick and rasp voice Burden sad news they are staying.
My first though was, great two of the most annoying presenters gone only to be somewhat spoilt by the thought of flaming Adrian Chiles and Peter Allan replacing them. They may not be quite as irritating (although I’m not so sure about Chiles) but they are just as ‘on message’ so no real improvement. Hey BBC, how about a right of centre leaning presenter for some of that impartiality that is apparently in your genes?
‘women are getting thinner on the ground and not much to keep Lenny Henry happy.
Looking at past preferences, that seems a double personal and professional hit for the BBC’s new diversity csar.
And Danny Cohen must be feeling the urge to meddle again by now, surely?
Couldn`t Adrian Chiles and Jane Garvey renew their “Richard and Judy” act for the BBC?
I always like a sequel, and I myself would listen to it for a bit…it`s MY BBC and I want this coupling of two major BBC talents!
Great news to see the back of Bacon and Derby- (uncomfortable… pause) -shire, both of whom are revolting, but Chiles goes some way to negating the initial delight.
Livesey is an amiable enough moron, despite being English by default, but I’m disappointed Phil Williams and his mascara are staying. He’s a terrible listen in the evenings.
Well, “Rat Face Vicky the Salford Slipper” has been cast adrift, is she going to land at Planet Newsnight, which suddenly seems to have gone hideously white and female?
Maybe Katz has a crush on her, after all, who’d fancy Krusty Wart?
Infantile, mean and perhaps close to defamatory there. Such charisma, rapier wit and charm. Well done.
If A. Lawyer is about, a briefing note on what ‘close to defamatory’ constitutes in legal terms would be appreciated.
Meanwhile, on the actual topic of BBC professional standards, the BBC Facebook forums remain rich sources for actual defamation, while for mean and infantile I’d have to say a large chunk of HIGNFY, Mock the Week and several other BBC-commissioned shows qualify too (as Ian Hislop would now say… allegedly).
Please do share your efforts to raise your concerns with such material on uniquely-funded public broadcasters.
Unless you feel your time is better spent trying to get niche blogs in various notebooks for less.
Speaking of lists…
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/ive-got-little-list-and-im-keeping-it.html
‘using lawyerly logic that would make Gilbert & Sullivan purr, they played with the word “survey”.’
As only the uniquely-funded Semantics R Us brigade that is the BBC ‘we don’t get held to account like others’ can do.
At some point, a person in power, with a spine, is going to say ‘enough of the BS… answer the friggin’ question’.
This has nothing to do with HIGNFY etc. I addressed a person (not you) directly, so whatever you are trying to achieve by your garbled whataboutery; I can assure you I am not remotely interested in deflection and semantics merely appalled that calling someone (for whom one has no respect) a slapper is bang out of order.
Supplementary: http://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/6jmw2-hi-done-slander-called-someone-slut.html
‘This has nothing to do with HIGNFY etc’
Maybe not in your world, or, to coin the response of one you may empathise with, ‘If you say so’.
In the spirit of two wrongs I don’t condone many statements here (especially the false flaggers served up to order in complement to an outrage outing), but getting on a high horse flounce about unnecessarily robust satire on a free, unmodded blog when the BBC runs the same or worse through the filter and then to broadcast is pretty silly.
Presumably the entire BBC archive crew is now on triple time OT checking to see if any BBC-sanctioned staff or performer or guest has ever coined the term ‘slapper’ inappropriately with a view to excising it.
Good luck with that.
And googling words close to the ones you want.
I don’t know what you are on about.
Tell me, who is “Rat Faced Vicky, the Salford Slapper?”
If you think I was referring to Ms Derbyshire, would I have not addressed her as such.
Tell you what pal, why don’t you go back to your barrack room, and carrying on practicing your law there – Byeeee!
I take it “Rat Faced Vicky, the Salford Slapper” has absolutely no connection with Victoria Derbyshire, who managed to nick Fi Glover’s husband Mark Sandell back in 2003?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/apr/05/broadcasting.bbc
Nice stealth edit from the fair minded, balanced, and truth seeking mods *cough* ‘Slipper’ is not what was said as my screen grab will attest.
Obfuscation? Omission? Nah only the boogeyman BBC does that.
Hypocrites. Bloody minded hypocrites.
Well the end of VD is long overdue. I’ve taken to listening to O’Brien on LBC to avoid her.
Not so keen on the idea of moving Peter Allen though – he at least is a proper journalist, and is old enough and experienced enough to get decent answers out of people. He was much better in the breakfast slot though than Nicky Campbell, who is really suited to VD’s soft slot more than a hard news slot.
Fogarty was on LBC ,the other day , but I havn`t listened to the Radio Manchester , national local, station for years, unless they graciously give us 10 minutes of unbroken F1 coverage before they have FULL commentary on some wimmins cup final / international match at the same time .
please not the droney voiced dull adrian chiles fitting in vickys slot,have you watched him on itvs world cup coverage,it is car crash tv with his hand waving deluded outbursts,he reminds me of scott in a way,but this new shake up at 5 live is not to my liking at all.what would i like,lenny henry taking over bacons slot for one and more polish and chinese presenters,that is the diverse radio 5 live we need to represent the demographics of the uk.
We certainly do not ‘need’ Polish people. They havent been here long enough to deserve ANY representation on our radio. Why should they get dream jobs that many British people want? Theyre supposed to have come here to do the ‘jobs Brits are too lazy to do’ are they not? What use are they otherwse and why are they here?
I hate Peter Allen. I cant stand the way he always says ‘hmmm’ when he obviously disagrees with someone. Its borderline rude.
Sorry to see Derbyshire going though will not miss Bacon.
I bet Rachel Burden would have liked her job, I have always had the impression she jumps to stand in for her whenever possible.
How tragic for social engineering Beeboids that two women of their kind who apparently won’t move to Manchester, will be replaced by that lesser gender, men.
Adrian Chiles does have the perfect face for radio