5/26/2023 0 Comments Screeny mcscreenface![]() ![]() Even the chancellor was freelancing as a reviewer: “It’s early minutes but the show’s looking good.The new claim, an aside in the New York Times' iPhone 7 review, is said to stem from two anonymous sources at Apple. After talking to Osborne for a while, Peston handed over to Stratton, who provided immediate personal feedback (“House prices will fall if we leave the EU – that’s the main line out of your interview”) before revealing what viewers had tweeted to Screeny. In a development likely to induce terror among the union of TV critics, it soon became clear that Peston on Sunday is constructed as a self-reviewing show. Tom Hanks speaks of lonely childhood in emotional Desert Island Discs Attuning to the show’s aim to loosen the mood of sabbath television, the chancellor had turned up tieless, although had stopped short of changing his name to Votey McVoteface. “Yes, do, Ruth, I’m feeling a bit lonely here!,” added Peston, again seeming winningly jittery as he introduced “my very first big Sunday interview, George Osborne”. “I know you’re watching,” Stratton directly addressed the Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, “so send us a tweet!” Screeny is intended to display tweets, some of which were actively solicited. Whereas Marr had expressed fogeyish surprise at a guest’s use of an iPad during the prolonged newspaper review that starts his show, Peston threw straight to Stratton – a colleague from ITV’s News At Ten, where she is national editor and he political editor - at an interactive widescreen.Įxtending the meme that led the public to attempt to name a polar vessel Boaty McBoatface, viewers had voted pre-transmission for the show’s window on the digital world to be baptised Screeny McScreenface. In the hour before the debut of Peston on Sunday, Andrew Marr, in a tie, had talked to an equally buttoned-up Michael Gove and a polo-shirted Prince Harry in the latest edition of the 11-year-old BBC1 series which ITV has decided to follow, at 10am, rather than challenge directly.ĭifferences were immediately clear. Robert Peston criticises ‘vicious’ approach to interviewing politicians So his gentle oath may have been a celebration of greater editorial freedom, as perhaps was his appearance without a tie, his preference for a bare neck having also reputedly been a source of tension at the corporation. Over at the BBC, which Peston left in November in a big-money transfer, an expletive even as mild as “bleeding” would have brought phalanxes of middle managers running across the fields. This decision to break the second rule of live broadcasting – hide from the audience how terrifying it can be – was risky, but exposed a touching vulnerability that may have usefully undercut, for some viewers, the allegations of arrogance that have sometimes haunted the broadcaster. Robert Peston goes for the jugular with George Osborne in new Sunday showīut the reason for Robert Peston breaking the first rule of live broadcasting – know when the mic is live – was possibly explained by a line in his official intro: “Before you ask, yes, I’m bleeding nervous.” ![]() The unintended first words heard from the host of ITV’s new Sunday morning talk show, Peston on Sunday, were “break a leg”, spoken to co-host Allegra Stratton as the opening titles ended.
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