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No Early Breakfast tomorrow, R1 Dance instead. How on Earth have they not managed to find a cover presenter?

First of all, I think that Greg and Scott are still very strong in their current slots, if anything their shows feels even stronger since the schedule changes. Vick and Jordan are also sounding really good, they work well together and seem to get along, even outside radio they could easily work well together on TV. Rickie, Melvin and Charlie are good, but it still feels like a waste having them together and then really small links, not much chat and very few games. I'd make their show a little bit more entertainment-focused like the other shows in the schedule because it does stick out at the moment. Dean is sounding good as well, as is Arielle. I'd argue that the latter is perhaps too good for the Early Breakfast slots, and perhaps her and Dean are in the wrong slots, but there's no way that change would ever happen. Matt and Mollie's show has also been really enjoyable, their dynamic is great and I hope they stay for a long time to come. Adele is always a good listen but I still do wonder what her long term future with the station is, especially when Katie has been passed up every time there's an opening. She's been on once a week for four years now, although it is good to see her doing more cover slots. I do enjoy Clara on Future Sounds, I don't listen often but when I do she is good enough. Danny is quite a good listen too, his music choice is quite good and I've noticed a bit more of it ending up in the daytime playlist. Future Artists and Indie Show still isn't working for me at 8pm, they should either vary the music genre a bit more like they do in Future Sounds or move it later - the Indie Show definitely shouldn't be in that slot. The Powerdown Playlist works at 10pm no doubt, but it is a bit of a copout not to be live. I'd maybe do The Chillest Show live in that slot instead of the pre-record, but it is the same sort of concept. Not sure it entirely works going from loud indie music -> chill -> dance. Whilst I don't see any schedule changes for at least the next year or so, I would in the future like to see a late night live show on Radio 1, maybe in a similar fashion to the mid-morning show of a little bit of chat and chill, maybe in the 12am slot. A perfect presenter for this would be Adele Roberts, in my opinion, but someone new like Vicky Hawkesworth would also work. It's also becoming more and more apparent as to who the cover presenters are on the station. It seems like James Cusack, Vicky Hawkesworth, Jess Iszatt and Sam & Danni are the part time ones, with Katie and Sian stepping in regularly where necessary. In that respect, and considering only maybe one or two slots will open up in the next few years, I'm not sure I'd continue to do the Christmas presenter thing, or the Friday Early Breakfast slot. Over Christmas, they could've easily done those 6 presenters that I mentioned above (Katie -> Vicky -> James -> Sam & Danni -> Sian -> Jess) each day over Christmas and it would work quite well in my opinion. If they're going to continue to use the Friday Early Breakfast slot, there is no point giving it to presenters like Alex who did it last month and hosts quite a good slot for KISS, and Jess who has already proven herself to be a regular cover presenter for the specialist shows. I'd give the slot to Arielle from next year again, with them dropping Best New Pop (they do New Music Friday around 5.30am on Fridays anyway).

I do feel like Katie will get a move fairly soon (whether that be Adele leaving or her joining up with Dean, or maybe even her taking over the chart), and then Sam and Danni taking over Life Hacks.

When mollie wasn’t there a couple of weeks ago Akylah just sat in for her, so it is possible.

No best new pop on 7th January. Sam and Danni are doing Early Breakfast (in for Arielle the whole week), so I wonder if Arielle is going to do Fridays permanently with Best New Pop dropped.

New Years Eve is James Cusack from 6pm to 10pm and then Jordan North from 10pm to 1am.

Matt and Mollie in for Greg on 20th December. Katie in for Matt and Mollie on 24th December. No Best New Pop either. the Christmas presenters will be doing Radio 1 Anthems this year by the looks of things.

Vick and Jordan just said that they are recording a show to go out on Xmas day.

I’m not too sure how it works for the radio but for TV the next two weeks are confirmed in one go, so we might get up to New Year’s Eve.

Sam and Danni in for Arielle on Tuesday 14th December.

He’s covering because Vick and Jack are going on a date.

According to the BBC Sounds description he will only be hosting the last hour of the show.

Jordan in for Jack tomorrow.

If that’s copy and pasted then obvious mistake is that, if that is the Xmas day schedule then surely it’d be called Christmas Afternoon? I also think it’s more likely that they’ll have the usual presenters on Xmas day and then have new ones in the following days.

Confirmed to be Coventry by Greg

Potentially doing it permanently for the month?

Interesting to see Sian potentially getting some daytime cover. The fact there’s a breakfast best bits seems to look like it’ll be normal music. It’s also interesting that they’ve not got the Xmas presenters on that Monday. Having Charli XCX on Future Sounds also seems to indicate that they’re doing the Celeb takeover again.

breakfast - Katie mid morning - Dean afternoon - Jack Drive - Arielle Future Sounds - Sian Future Artists - Jack my guess.

Katie appears to be becoming the supply teacher in the same way that Jordan was three years ago.

Jack in for Clara on Tuesday, with Jess in for Jack.

Also, Sam and Danni are in for Arielle on 24th and 25th November. Katie is solo on life hacks on 21st November. Sian is in for Jack on both of his shows w/c 22nd November.

Update from Adele: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVkcdOBolIr sounds like good news.

Mollie King is on holiday so that explains why she’s not on Best New Pop as well.

Arielle in for Adele this weekend.

First of all I think it’d be unlikely that Jordan and Vick are split off. Jack bring on in the afternoon is believable but the second half of that show would probably be the Chart. I wonder if the Boxing Day schedule is in fact the Xmas day schedule. They usually have a takeover on that day? Arielle then Sarah followed by maybe Danny would be a good schedule for the rest of the day, with Scott on breakfast, if not Vick and Jordan? Dean being on weekdays would be weird considering that they usually have exclusively Christmas presenters, but even weirder would be to move Jordan, by himself, out of his usual slot and be replaced with Dean who could slot into the mid morning slot.