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It's become a running discussion point on here and elsewhere how ever since Matt & Mollie stopped doing the 1-4pm slot on Friday to Sunday it's become a bit of a lucky dip with no permanent replacement for Matt & Mollie yet selected or any indication of when or if there'll be a permanent replacement.

In a way I'd rather they take their time and select a good replacement rather than Danny Beard it (in fact I wish they'd done this strategy with Going Home after Jordan's exit until Katie agreed to do the show from LONDON?!) .

Who's impressed so far of those you've heard? Probably stating the obvious but IMO James Cusack and Emil Franchi have been standouts and could easily if they wanted to do the slot full-time from tomorrow. Both strong listens and had good features. Can't help both were slightly overlooked in the 2022 changes.

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9 hours ago, coffeeandgin said:

It's become a running discussion point on here and elsewhere how ever since Matt & Mollie stopped doing the 1-4pm slot on Friday to Sunday it's become a bit of a lucky dip with no permanent replacement for Matt & Mollie yet selected or any indication of when or if there'll be a permanent replacement.

In a way I'd rather they take their time and select a good replacement rather than Danny Beard it (in fact I wish they'd done this strategy with Going Home after Jordan's exit until Katie agreed to do the show from LONDON?!) .

Who's impressed so far of those you've heard? Probably stating the obvious but IMO James Cusack and Emil Franchi have been standouts and could easily if they wanted to do the slot full-time from tomorrow. Both strong listens and had good features. Can't help both were slightly overlooked in the 2022 changes.

James has been the strongest by far. It'll be a shame if he's overlooked. Emil has been a decent listen these past few weeks too. They're the two that have stood out for me.

I do think the best idea would be to move Sam & Danni to Friday-Sunday afternoon with a new solo presenter on weekend breakfast. 

I wonder what the deal was with that Jack Remington, who popped up during the summer detention thing? Wasn't it mentioned that they referred to a new presenter then he walked in?

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I'd like to see it given to Joel Mitchell, who's really grown in confidence since his earlier cover stints. Emil and James are great too but tbf have been around on various stations for a few years now, and it would be good to see new talent be given a chance.

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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.

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On 10/26/2024 at 12:03 PM, NathanS said:

James has been the strongest by far. It'll be a shame if he's overlooked

agree I still think James cusack is by far the strongest from his month in june and its easy to see why he came out on top by a long way of the favourite r1 cover presenter poll.

Dont get me wrong I think some of the others have come on but you would expect them to with lots of shows. If james did end up with the 1-4 weekend slot they would need the next crop to cover plus any other weekend shows therefore its important that most have sounded good.

I've said this before when he was paired with vicky, I've listened to emil on absolute and he is good on there but find him to skew a bit old in terms of content and talking points on r1

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Emil is better than James for me but they're both miles ahead of all the other cover presenters. As you'd expect as they're both really experienced ie maybe a bit old for a 'beginners' gig on R1!! It's a catch 22. 

Controversially I quite like the rotation and getting loads of people a chance to shine/learn though and wouldn't mind it carrying on, just maybe elsewhere in the schedule 

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1 hour ago, Alexastop said:

Emil is better than James for me but they're both miles ahead of all the other cover presenters. As you'd expect as they're both really experienced ie maybe a bit old for a 'beginners' gig on R1!! It's a catch 22. 

Controversially I quite like the rotation and getting loads of people a chance to shine/learn though and wouldn't mind it carrying on, just maybe elsewhere in the schedule 

I agree the rotation has been really great for presenters to get a short gig at Radio 1, maybe they should've done it on the 10:30 - 12:45 slot instead on Friday - Saturday for a month. 

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2 hours ago, Alexastop said:

Emil is better than James for me but they're both miles ahead of all the other cover presenters. As you'd expect as they're both really experienced ie maybe a bit old for a 'beginners' gig on R1!! It's a catch 22. 

Controversially I quite like the rotation and getting loads of people a chance to shine/learn though and wouldn't mind it carrying on, just maybe elsewhere in the schedule 

They already had a rotation slot with Friday early breakfast, which I assume will return in January.

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