So Lebedev’s London Live has launched. And I don’t know about you but I’m hooked. I’d totally forgotten what really bad TV looked like. It’s as if the chief execs at Channel 5 got together with Alan Partridge for a 21st-century rebrand. London’s new TV channel did get one nice review from the, oh, Lebedev-owned Independent – moving swiftly on.
From what I’ve seen of London Live’s first full day, it’s as if a posh, ethnically very chic primary school won a Blue Peter competition where they got to dress up as adults for the day and run their very own TV channel – all by themselves! The top news story was the announcement that Emma Watson’s dress was white and pretty. We were then treated to two Twitter images of yesterday’s ‘sandstorm’. And that was it. Lucky, lucky, London. It made Newsround feel like Dispatches.
Say what you like about the content, however, the channel definitely felt modern.
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