What a plonker. After the BBC nurtured him from a very amateurish young daytime presenter to an effectively quirky evening 'personality,' and handed him so many good jobs that he became the most exposed individual on British TV last year, he's flounced off because someone had the temerity to suggest swapping his Friday One Show gig for his own new Friday chat show! How cruel! And what is he quitting the Beeb for? The same football job that ruined Des Lynam's career ('That was the half time whistle, now we're due a commercial break, coming up after the break, a competition to win a car, then another break...') and...a breakfast show ('Oh, come on, get up and get on with it, it's going to be a flipping long day...'). The ability of ITV to 'poach' a BBC hit and then give them completely the wrong shows is legendary, but if Chiles was really half as smart as he thinks he is he would have stayed put. Dazzled by his own hype, I'd say.

One of the reasons he probably went to ITV was because he will be able to front their champions league coverage and world cup. On the bbc he is seen as a substitute presenter, who presents the secondary Match of the Day 2 show on sundays. This is probably correct as he is not as good a presenter as Gary Lineker. For ITV to poach a second string bbc presenter and give them the top job tells you a lot about the standard of sports coverage at ITV. They did the same with Bob Wilson, and then Des Lynam (as you said).

I was a bit bemused as to why this story made the lunchtime news yesterday.

The One Show is awful- well it was last time I watched it.

Funnily enough I rather like it - and him; but I often feel I must be the only one, judging by the posts here. Mind you, it has done spectacularly well in the ratings. Then again, I loved Nationwide. And I am very, very old.

The little old man who claimed he could jump on eggs without breaking them - anyone remember that from Nationwide? They show it every now and again. He wore plimsoles, and 'grazed' the eggs by hopping over them whilst a clearly peed off Sue Lawley looked on. I love those old eccentrics.

ha ha Pru, I hadn't seen that clip before!

JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough I rather like it - and him; but I often feel I must be the only one, judging by the posts here. Mind you, it has done spectacularly well in the ratings. Then again, I loved Nationwide. And I am very, very old.

I like him too. And the One Show. But I think he's making a mistake long term. Yest he gets a 50% hike in salary, but GMTV? PLEASE!!!

I do like the idea of Christ Evans on Friday though.

The BBC has always been better with presenter personalities than ITV.. For Adrian Chiles read Simon Dee. (He made the same mistake first!)

JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough I rather like it - and him; but I often feel I must be the only one, judging by the posts here. Mind you, it has done spectacularly well in the ratings. Then again, I loved Nationwide. And I am very, very old.

I used to like Nationwide too jk. Often on these nostalgia documentaries they will show clips from Nationwide, whether it was about punk or new romantics, much of the stock footage is from Nationwide.
They reported on all the latest music movements and fashions and later started the Nationwide Rock and Pop awards which became the brits. Anyhow I see the One show as the modern day nationwide with such a wide and diverse array of topics.

robbiex wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough I rather like it - and him; but I often feel I must be the only one, judging by the posts here. Mind you, it has done spectacularly well in the ratings. Then again, I loved Nationwide. And I am very, very old.

I used to like Nationwide too jk. Often on these nostalgia documentaries they will show clips from Nationwide, whether it was about punk or new romantics, much of the stock footage is from Nationwide.
They reported on all the latest music movements and fashions and later started the Nationwide Rock and Pop awards which became the brits. Anyhow I see the One show as the modern day nationwide with such a wide and diverse array of topics.

The problem I have with The One Show is that it doesn't really know what it is. It's sort of half heartedly tabloidy, but also half heartedly trivial and half heartedly journalistic.

Its Blue Peter for adults Stevieimp. Which makes "Live from studio 5" Magpie!

'Live from Studio 5' makes Magpie seem like 'The Ascent of Man'! I can't believe it's still going!