On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Adam Bowie <adam.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That'll be Alexa Chung. She's done a load of TV over here - mostly on >> Channel 4 - but not, to the best of my knowledge, any of that red carpet >> stuff, which I suspect is harder than it looks. Yes, I know the questions >> have to largely revolve around who designed your dress, but you do have to >> identify second tier cast members of Glee and so on. Last year she had an >> MTV show which I believe has been cancelled. A perfectly OK presenter (he >> says, trying not to damn her with faint praise). >> > > Thanks for that. "Perfectly OK" puts her at a level far above most of the > people who do what she did last night, so I think she should be pleased with > that. Forgive my ignorance - in Great Britain, is a "presenter" a news > anchor (which is what I thought - but that doesn't quite seem to fit with > her persona from last night)? Or does that just refer to any TV > "personality"? > > Nope. Definitely not a news presenter. Sorry - "presenter" is a catch-all term meaning "host" as much as anything. She was on a show called Popworld - basically linking videos, and interviewing bands - on Channel 4. I can't think of a US equivalent, but it could have sat somewhere between MTV and E! I guess. She also worked on lots of Channel 4 specials aimed at the youth age group, usually based around music and sometimes films. She's done plenty of those junket interviews in hotel suites, and most recently did a morning show based around music. None of this stuff is done 100% seriously, and there's always an element of humour involved.
>From what I can tell from Wikipedia, she's next to be seen presenting a PBS programme called Thrift America. I know nothing of this! Adam -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
