Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

Richard

On Nov 10, 11:02*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

Richard

I agree. An excellent unfussy presentation.
80 mph gusts up north!

Len

Len Wood wrote in news:54622fbe-8b94-4790-9b7c-
:

I agree. An excellent unfussy presentation.
80 mph gusts up north!

Unfussy was the word I was looking for, thanks! Who decides these things
I wonder? I hope Peter Gibbs has been saved the chop - the other good
presenter on there.

Richard

Richard Dixon wrote:
Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

Richard
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Agreed. Unfortunately this page isn't big enough for me to list all of
the so called "progressive changes" I come across these days that are a
step backwards!
Dave

On Nov 10, 11:02*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

Richard

Unfortunately Philip Avery is serious and the fluffy heads in the
media have determined that weather forecasts are essentially
entertainment and not just on the BBC either. This is why we have to
put up with buffoons (Schafernaker) and girls with pronounced mammary
endowment but who are otherwise useless (Tobin).

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Nov 10, 11:02*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

Richard

The Beeb have been getting into trouble lately over replacing 'older'
presenters for 'younger' more attractive ones. I hope this isn't the
reason?

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Nov 11, 4:29*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:

* * Unfortunately Philip Avery is serious and the fluffy heads in the
media have determined that weather forecasts are essentially
entertainment and not just on the BBC either.

I took a look at the thoughts of the Hoi Polloi on Twitter and someone
commented that "Philip Avery is so boring" - I'm not sure what they
were expecting from a Weather Forecast on the BBC? Strictly Come
Forecasting? I'm A Meteorologist, Get Me Out of Here? The FSXX-Factor?

Come on Lawrence, get your pun stick out, there must be more here...

Richard

On Nov 11, 9:33*am, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Nov 11, 4:29*am, Tudor Hughes wrote:

* * Unfortunately Philip Avery is serious and the fluffy heads in the
media have determined that weather forecasts are essentially
entertainment and not just on the BBC either.

I took a look at the thoughts of the Hoi Polloi on Twitter and someone
commented that "Philip Avery is so boring" - I'm not sure what they
were expecting from a Weather Forecast on the BBC? Strictly Come
Forecasting? I'm A Meteorologist, Get Me Out of Here? The FSXX-Factor?

Come on Lawrence, get your pun stick out, there must be more here...

Richard

The yardstick for any popular programme at the moment seems to centre
on noise - senseless screaming and cheering leaves one reaching for
the volume knob...

Perhaps this tweeter would appreciate thunder and lightening, howling
gales and heavy rain on the sound effects during weather
forecasts...and insist that Mr Avery and co dress up in oilskins and a
sou'wester when they are forecasting a stormy day...

In article ,
Richard Dixon writes:
Quite why the Beeb are demoting him to back office is beyond me. Just
delivered a faultless forecast on BBC1 - especially given the hazardous
nature of the weather he had to get across.

I think that the reason they gave, for both him and Rob McElwee, was
some guff about poor people management skills. What relevance that has
to presenting a weather forecast is hard to see.

Was it actually a BBC decision, or was it a Met Office one, or arrived
at jointly?
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

On Nov 11, 9:33*am, Richard Dixon wrote:

I took a look at the thoughts of the Hoi Polloi on Twitter and someone
commented that "Philip Avery is so boring" - I'm not sure what they
were expecting from a Weather Forecast on the BBC? Strictly Come
Forecasting? I'm A Meteorologist, Get Me Out of Here? The FSXX-Factor?

Come on Lawrence, get your pun stick out, there must be more here...

Richard


'Meteorologist - The Professionals'. With Francis Wilson nodding
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the Gregg Wallace role?

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