Making friends with Fox. UK's 5th channel cuts news ups comment

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Dawn Airey, the channel's boss, revealed that Five is to shake up its news operation, scrapping its half-hour 7pm bulletin and replacing it with an hour-long current affairs show based loosely on Fox & Friends, the US news channel's popular sofa-based news programme. Its 5pm bulletin would remain unaffected

Five and Friends - oh yes please

Based on Fox and Friends - about time
I say

I’d even pay

I like Fox News
It's opinionated
and I'm not right wing

Bill O’Reilly is one of the best on the box
Catch his debate with Christopher Hitchens on torture?
intelligent informative and polite

Just too short
for my mind

So Dawn force your show to have more than a catchy title

Have a quiet word with OFCOM the regulator

Help it lighten up
and keep its nerve

There are enough bland sofa chat shows
pink
begging your pardon
Ms Airey
for
middle class liberals
around

6.30 to 7.30 is a tough early prime slot

As you know

On BBC1 the regional news
Ripe for dethroning
followed by the rainbow fare
that is the
One Show

both posting
a tad
close
to a 27 per cent divide

Be bold
Oh did I mention
make it multi platform too?

Dawn
here's your
break out
programme

like Nike

and
for a while

Forget the merger

Just do it