All In The Same Boat

It's now been confirmed about the new hosts of Countdown on the BBC News website so everything will definitely be going ahead.

I'm up in RP1 barely doing anything apart from using Facebook which is impossible to access in halls making things inconvinient. The second years are doing their news and magazine module and one of the groups are doing a magazine programme aimed at lads which they are calling "L.A.D.S." due to being an all male group apart from Lottie who for some reason is absent.

The rest of the group consists of Dan, Jake, Spike, Oli P, Joe Lester from Leicester, Nick SD, and Sammy C. Dan's taken the role as editor and Spikey G is presenting, and along with the other group, they're putting a lot more effort than my group did in the magazine module two years ago, by doing more run throughs than us.
The main reason why we tried not to do too many run throughs apart from the pilot was because the presenters were saying that they would become more scripted if they kept on doing so.
Although in all honesty it's because they were crap.
And so was I in my role as studio producer which is not the sort of role I'd like to have in radio.

If I had had to work with my year on "Breathe London" which was the third year advanced show in 2007, I would have been dreadful as their were too many people and too few roles. Overall I'd have probably got fed up with them.
I'm so glad I went into hypomania, as this semester has been the reverse of everything that happened last year despite it taking a long time to get over being down,
but to coin a tired phrase, there's no ups without downs.

The second year's this year have the advantage of Dave Sharp lecturing them for the magazine part of the module whereas we had Matthew who made rather rude looking facial expressions whenever something went wrong. Charles Carroll's still doing the news part of the module and keeping a tight eye as usual but being constructive at the same time.

Let's hope they don't have another Stewart Paske as the main newsreader.

In response to the rant from Tubers I found last night, it appears that the Vault once again are bringing back the classic countdowns and showing them on a daily basis from December time according to the Digital Spy forums.
Obviously they'll only have one episode a week in the same style as the revived show, as it would be difficult to keep up every day. That will probably give me an excuse to stay in Canterbury for longer over Christmas and the highlight of having Freesat at home.

Unless Denis and that lot don't mind me watching it at their's now and again, as Denis will remember me at one of his do's at his old house last year trying to stay awake in order to watch the episode being shown the next day. Of course I didn't survive after getting too drunk and deciding to give in, almost resulting in me locking myself out of my flat.

I'm being dreadfully lazy as I know I need to get over to the library pretty soon.
I can't see too many people wanting to write a dissertation too similar to mine however, especially with those wanting to base their's on a specific news story which in their case of finding literature could turn out to be a right nightmare.

Then again the key word is empirical and not theoretical, so I don't have to worry about including too many "poncey theories" into the work itself.