Tony Cowards
Tuesday 30th March 2010 1:00am
Wiltshire
1,762 posts
I have a serious crush on Claudia Winkleman, she makes my tummy go all squiffy, so the more she's on my tellybox, the happier I am.
Quote: Badge @ March 29 2010, 11:21 PM GMT
I like Claudia W but in my mind - maybe wrongly - she has a very flaky persona and that's not what I want from the nation's most important film reviewer. I want substance, gravitas and believability. Funnily enough I thought JR was a decent host of Film xx because he toned down his rude-and-crude antics for the film audience. Maybe Claudia will be able to tone down her persona as well, but from this distance I am not optimistic.
Fortunately, as there has hardly been a decent film in the last 20 years the problem is only likely to be a minor one.
Claudia is a very capable host of a culture related show on Radio 2 every friday night, she knows her films, maybe not as much as Norman or Ross but she's not clueless and I wouldn't be surprised if she was just the main presenter and they had other reviewers on with her (like her radio show).