Dan18F1

Tuesday 2nd April - the week after Easter weekend!

I’m going to take a stab at the headliners (based on who I think R1 have the budget for and who they’ve played lots in the past few months) Friday: Fred Again.. Saturday: Usher Sunday: RAYE All 3 of these also have touring gaps where they’d be able to play big weekend.

We know R1 love duos and trios at the moment but I feel that getting Nat to join Vicky on the 10 hour takeover is a bit overkill - surely that’s a day that will be full of music? And the same with Easter Monday when it’s Anthems day - I feel that all of RMC and Vick, Katie and Jamie aren’t all needed when they get to do 30 second links

Let’s maybe not speculate about Jordan’s sexuality…

I agree, as much as I think Aled has made a couple of recent questionable decisions, after the next few months the last thing radio 1 will need is more upheaval. I think (unless anyone chooses to leave) there probably shouldn’t be any changes for at least a couple of years. Radio 1 needs a period of stability now.

Mollie is solo on Saturday (9th) and Matt is solo on Sunday (10th) Sam and Danni are in for Arielle on Monday (11th) and from the 19th-21st March Nat is in for Dean on Thursday 14th and then Ore is in for Dean for the whole of the next week. Nikita Kanda is in for Matt and Mollie on the weekend of the 16th and 17th of March. It seems like Greg is probably off on Good Friday as it is just a generic Radio 1 Breakfast on the schedule - no indication yet of who will cover him but I would guess it might be Dean.

I do wonder whether the initial plan was for Dean and Vicky to still split but Katie take afternoons and then there wouldn’t have been any changes to Matt and Mollie’s show (which also might explain why they haven’t been able to announce a weekend afternoon presenter yet)

I know it’s none of our business but has Scott said why he’s off for so long? I don’t ever remember him taking a 5 week long holiday on R1 before?

Hopefully Matt and Mollie take producer Amy with them to weekdays - she has helped to make their weekend show even better in the past couple of years and was obviously Scott’s producer before he left too

Yes it’s staying but moving to Wednesdays 8-10. I’m surprised Mollie is still presenting it, because it’s very rare that Radio 1 do double-shifting, let alone permanently. I’d have thought it would be the perfect time to give it to Maia Beth

Conor Knight is covering for Sam and Danni on Sunday. I think that’s the first day off their show since they started in September!

I wonder if it might be slightly left field - James Cusack and Lauren Layfield together maybe?

I think it needs to be a mix of both which it seems to do quite well - obviously it has signed some big names in recent years but also some presenters have come from student radio (Sam and Danni come to mind). One thing I don’t think they need is TV names such as Jamie Laing, I think there’s enough big and small radio names that they can use without people like him (although I would have said the same about Mollie King and look how that has turned out)

Ahh I hope this is right! Matt and Mollie have deserved afternoons for years - could almost feel like a (not quite so good) Scott afternoon show again!

It does also mean that we’re only going to get a week of the new Going Home before the challenge takes over for a week which probably isn’t ideal either.

We’ll be getting a Sian Eleri and Jack Saunders pairing at breakfast next! ?

From that story though I still don’t understand how they managed to get Jamie in so quickly? It sounds like Jordan only told them I assume after his last show that he was leaving and suddenly they already had a replacement lined up for him?

Yeah I don’t mind Dean at all on his own, I think his Breakfast cover has been pretty listenable when he’s done it and I think he could have done a pretty good content heavy afternoon show on his own. Unfortunately the Dean and Vicky pairing just isn’t working (and I do like Vicky too, I think she sounds good on her own as well) and the production on that show is very weak which just ends up with a very poor afternoon show currently.

The Mega Massive Monday one posted on Friday that Dean got LOTS of stick underneath unnecessarily

Looks like it’s James Cusack and Nat O’Leary today. I hope Dean is ok - seems to have been completely AWOL since that Instagram post went up on Friday

I still don’t quite get why Radio 1 didn’t announce Jordan’s departure on Thursday morning and say he’ll have a final goodbye show that day. Capital were never going to announce Roman’s departure before that because he was off last week so it couldn’t have been ruined by them either.

I wonder if Lauren Layfield will play a major role at some point this year too? If she has signed for radio 1 which seems like a strong possibility, they surely must have promised her some kind of major show for her to leave Capital’s Early Breakfast show? I do wonder if her and Katie together somewhere might be an option? Not sure I can see it being Breakfast but definitely somewhere else on the schedule

I do wonder who will actually want to present Monday’s going home - I can’t imagine it will be an easy show to try and do. The names I suggested yesterday of Arielle and Sam and Danni are already both on earlier in the day (so is Matt) and with Katie being on holiday, the only person I can see doing it is Nat?

Yeah I thought it was very strange how he missed Greg off his goodbye post. He seems a very obvious one to have accidentally missed off. Edit: He’s added Greg to his post now! Drama over haha

I wonder if they might be giving Jordan a goodbye show on Monday, it’s the only day that still has the Vick and Jordan picture, why would they have changed all the others and left that one?