Bluestraw

No chance Zoe will cover breakfast. Would be a surprise to see her covering any weekday show tbh.

I don't think Jamie is likely to leave anytime soon. Seems he really wanted to do this job, despite some people thinking he's not a great fit, so I suspect he'll be around for a while. Vick is indeed much more likely not to be on in a year from now I think.

Redfern

No real need to change that IMO, Sundays are logical for the themed anthems hours but Greg and James are both superior to Nat & Vicky so they should keep those 30 mins.

Makes sense to me as the 10-11 slot on a Sunday is currently random anthems, followed by the two themed hours, whereas now it'll be themed all the way from 10-1. Personally I find the regular anthems blocks pretty lazy radio, whereas the Sunday themed hours are more engaging. Losing 30 mins from breakfast doesn't matter as it was just anthems anyway so no real content.

Maybe last minute and James is in Manchester? I don't remember hearing that Jordan show, don't suppose anyone has the audio?

Agree with all the above, and let's also take a moment to remember it's less than a year since Danny Beard was on every weekend while James (and others) sat on the sidelines. Thankfully the right decisions were made in the end!

It won't be the first week of new shows. Pretty sure I read that Trevor Nelson has specifically said now about starting 'late Jan' which ties in with several comments about w/c 27 Jan being the launch week. After panto, Scott will need a break and prep time, in order to then have a decent run of the new show before any breaks.

Ahh, nice to meet one of Dean's family on here 😂

Emil is good but James C is still a cut above IMO. I know he's a bit older than some of the options but it's incredible he's still not got a regular show given the amount of quality cover he's done.

Suspect they will simulcast. Personally am completely fed-up with the lazy anthems programming through the Christmas period but no signs that that will change! I know they do it to go light on production needs, but surely with some good prework we could have a bit of something else!

Allegedly Jordan's partner : https://tattle.life/threads/help-i-sexted-my-boss-podcast.41072/page-5 Jordan clearly doesn't like to talk about his personal life though which is of course fair enough. He seems happy which is what matters.

I suspect budgets have a lot to do with this. The audience figures just don't justify the spend, even though clearly it'd be better to have live shows later in the evenings. Given the choice between quality presenters during the day and live shows in the evening, it's not really much of an option!

Can't really see these as trials - each of them have done enough in the past for them to make a choice, and we all know James is by far the best! I suspect there's more to it and a good reason why we don't know yet...

Let's really really hope not. Or at the very minimum, put him with someone else. A solo Danny would be a disaster.