Interesting news from Five Live.
Danny Baker’s going to be doing the Saturday morning show, replacing Eamonn Holmes. Meanwhile Absolute Radio’s own Christian O’Connell is returning to Five Live to present an as yet un-named topical news comedy programme.
I’m glad that Danny Baker’s 606 has been acknowledged for the triumph that it is, and he’s getting a decent length show on the station.
Christian used to present Fighting Talk until he took over as the then host of the Virgin Radio breakfast show. At that point, Colin Murray was given the Fighting Talk gig – probably because Christian was just a bit too high profile for Five Live’s controller’s liking. Before him, the same had happened when Johnny Vaughan got the Capital FM breakfast show, and he also left the Fighting Talk host (although it’s his production company that still produces the show).
Speaking of production companies, I thought that this was interesting:
“5 Live will invite independent production companies and in-house production areas to pitch for the opportunity to produce this show and the best ideas and formats will win out!”
Talk about an open pitch…