Dan18F1

Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get more than a weekend afternoon host announced in the next schedule changes and they are potentially waiting for everything to fall into place to then make a big announcement and launch a new schedule in November or January for example. Because not only will the weekend slot need filling, there is the new R1 spin off station being launched ‘this autumn’, which I can see the likes of Ore, Nat, James etc being part of and I wonder if any of those shows will be simulcasted on the main station. There is then Mollie’s maternity leave which I can see them wanting to cover, and then there’s questions about whether they do something with the Power Down Playlist now that there’s no R1 Relax anymore, could they put something different in that slot? So I think management might be waiting to be able to sort a few things out at the same time.

That’s quite unusual - Vicky covering the slot that she has recently vacated. I didn’t think her or Dean would be back on that slot at all. I wonder whether they’ll be coming from London or Salford.

The longer they leave the announcement the more I think it might be Danny Beard getting the slot. They’re doing a UK tour during September so wouldn’t be available to start a show until October. Otherwise if it was someone like James, they surely would have announced it and had him starting at the beginning of September.

I also don’t think it helps that it’s now a whole new production team - they lost both Sophie (to breakfast) and Roushan (to produce Matt and Mollie) in the space of a month which I don’t think is ideal. I reckon the show now just needs some time to bed in with the new producers and try and find its feet again. There are definitely some good ideas there but I think it does just feel like a less good imitation of the old Going Home at the moment.

Just to add to this Shanequa is also off on the 14th and 21st of July. Callum is in for her on the 14th and Katie on the 21st.

She’s covering the Euros for Newsround. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s also in France for the Olympics soon. I guess this would have all been approved and known about when she took on the role.

Is there a reason why Greg or Dean aren’t on the poll?

Did anyone get a chance to listen to Dean this morning? I’ve had a listen back tonight and I think he sounds so much stronger on his own and will do very well in that slot. He’s already keeping the vibe of it being a little club of listeners up at that time which is needed and even though the show seemed pretty light on features (he said some would be introduced throughout the week) it flowed really nicely and felt like he was putting his own stamp on it.

So, the first Matt and Mollie weekday show today and what a triumph it seemed to be. You could tell that there were nerves there, didn’t seem to be as natural immediately as they were by the end of weekends but obviously the show will settle in pretty quickly. Glad to see another very content heavy show though - today we had someone who is going to review the week, a new ‘Best Thing Ever’ feature which was fine but nothing groundbreaking, the ‘5 to 2’ quiz which was a very clever way of getting a quick quiz in everyday, a texty feature, ‘Don’t Match Matt’ a new game that it sounds like they’ll be playing a couple of days a week and then ‘Battle Tracks’ which I’m very glad has stayed. Very pleased that Matt vs Mollie is staying too (along with I assume Mol’s Teaser) and then the new features they’ve bought in seem good too. Hopefully they have the budget to be able to have guests every so often as well! Overall, it seemed a very promising start.

I think it will be a duo tbh but probably involving James. I think it’s their flagship weekend show now and with a duo coming off it I think it makes sense to put another on. If I had to make a prediction I would say it will be James and Tinea Taylor. I think Danny Beard will stick around as cover and to be used for events etc because they do have name recognition, and I think we’ll also hear more from Ore as well over the next few months (probably covering Early Breakfast and Nat and Vicky whenever they’re off)

I would guess that Arielle had to leave the show because she was ill and therefore can’t present tonight.

As much as I think Mollie is a great presenter, I feel that Maia should get Future Pop now permanently. She definitely deserves that show, and with Mollie now on weekdays it saves her having to do 2 shows a day. She could still have a daily Future Bop or something like that on the weekday show too.

Yes I agree too, perfect company for a long drive at that time of night. I’d also like to sing Phil Williams’ praises too - I’d like to hope that if OJ did get a bigger show at some point, Phil would take over the midnight slot.

I think that’s Sam and Danni’s first time covering breakfast - congrats to them and looking forward to seeing how they get on on it!

I would be pretty confident that if they keep avoiding using James Cusack on that slot over the next few weeks, then it will probably be him that gets the show permanently!

Ahhh very happy for Amy - that’s very well deserved! I didn’t hear their final show but are Matt and Mollie keeping Helena? Hopefully she might be the main producer of their new show!

Congrats to Maia Beth who was part of the UK jury for Eurovision this year! Big gig for her

And Arielle mentioned in her Instagram post that her final early breakfast show is the 27th of June - the Thursday before Glastonbury

Yeah I don’t think they’ll be anything that drastic - maybe a week or 2 of cover on early breakfast etc, but maybe just having that weekend afternoon slot covered over the summer means they can put someone on from September who maybe isn’t available until then?

The Summer on Radio 1 thing makes me wonder whether they might be doing something similar to last year again where they have a temporary schedule over the summer before introducing changes in September - maybe the new host won’t start until after the summer?

I just want to add though that I am beginning to enjoy the show a bit more now that it’s settled in - I think Jamie (when he’s there) has calmed down a bit and then the new features that have been progressively added over the last couple of weeks have been good too. I still don’t think it’s a patch on Vick and Jordan together, but it is now a show that seems like it could have legs into the future and once Matt and Mollie start in July, I could see myself sticking with R1 all afternoon.

So from the podcast it’s Vick and Jamie on Monday, all 3 of them on Tuesday and Wednesday, Vick and Katie on Thursday and then Katie is on holiday the week after so it’s just Vick and Jamie. I wonder how long it will be before we actually get a full week of their show?

To be fair to him, this week and next week he’s on his podcast tour which was arranged well before he started on R1. After that I would guess he’ll start being on everyday?

Leeds is pretty North isn’t it?

Did it take a lot of tempting to go to Capital Jordan? Did you feel like you’d achieved everything you could at Radio 1 (other than breakfast)? Chris, how did your Capital move come about? Did Radio 1 want you to stay after Scott moved on?