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August 14, 2006
POOR ADRIAN Chiles. He's been doing the hype for the last two months and now he's been dumped on from a great height by BBC management. Although Mr Chiles, and others, to give them all their due, have firmly denied that BBC1's The One Show was an attempt to revive Nationwide, they were right. From the first few seconds, the show was dire. Stuck in a studio space over a Birmingham canal that managed to look a mess even with only three chairs, a table and a huge window, the camera work was appalling, made worse by director whose enthusiasm for moving overhead shots should have been laughed out of film school. Editorially the show was no better. The first piece was an 'undercover' exposé of bad behaviour on trains, introduced by the worse waffle that's found its way onto autocue for years. Not only should the writer be ceremonially hung out of the panoramic window and dunked into the canal in a few months' time, when the ice has had time to form, but the show's editor and producer should be too. Nationwide worked because it pushed technology. Yes, there were skateboarding ducks, but even 30 years later, TV audiences still do like their shows live and dramatic. There has to be the sense of potential failure. There has to be the chance, however small, that Mr Chiles will have to earn his salary by really being an anchor, and holding the show together when all around him are not only losing their heads, but every link has crashed too. Even a heavily-promoted 'first' interview with Dr Who's new sidekick was shallow and technically flawed. A few Saturdays ago, ITV pulled a show because it failed to pull an audience. Should The One Show have time to bed in? If this first edition is any indication, no, it's not worth it.
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