Gabby Logan to host The Wright Stuff spin-off

[michael21]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/showbiz/2011/06/21/gabby-logan-to-host-the-wright-stuff-spin-off-91466-28916737/

Presenter Gabby Logan has landed a new discussion show for Channel 5.

The BBC sport host is to front a new spin-off of C5’s popular morning series The Wright Stuff each morning, from June 27.

She will be joined each weekday by experts to discuss topical issues in front of a live studio audience.

The Wright Stuff Extra with Gabby Logan will be filmed in the same studio as the main show.

Logan will continue with her BBC TV sporting roles, although she stepped down as a presenter for Radio 5 Live earlier this year. The Wright Stuff has been presented by Matthew Wright for more than a decade.

Logan said: “I am really looking forward to joining the team at Channel 5 and excited to be hosting a live show where anything can happen.

The Wright Stuff is a daytime TV institution and I can’t wait to continue the conversations every weekday morning.”

Andrew O’Connell, Channel 5’s head of factual, news & current affairs, said: “Her vast experience will undoubtedly contribute to intelligent and lively debate on the show and I know Gabby is someone that our audience will be drawn to watch.”

The Wright Stuff Extra with Gabby Logan will broadcast each day at 11.10am.

[michael21]

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/logan-hosts-wright-stuff-spin-off-for-c5/5029012.article

Gabby Logan is to join Channel 5 next week as host of a daily spin-off show of The Wright Stuff.

The ongoing 60 minute The Wright Stuff Extra With Gabby Logan show will be produced by Princess Productions, which also produces the main show.

It will follow immediately after The Wright Stuff on C5 at 11.05am from this Monday 27 June, and will be made in the same Queensway studio with the same audience.

The spin-off will return to the issues touched on in the show in greater depth.

Logan will be joined by a different expert each day and also host a phone-in section.

The show was ordered by C5’s head of factual, news and current affairs Andrew O’Connell.

“Gabby Logan is a respected, insightful and talented broadcaster and we are delighted that she has joined Channel 5 to host her own live daytime show,” he said. “Her vast experience will undoubtedly contribute to intelligent and lively debate on the show and I know Gabby is someone that our audience will be drawn to watch,” he said.

The Wright Stuff has attracted an average consolidated audience of 290,000 (5.1%) for the year to date according to data from Attentional.

Princess’ head of daytime Tim Cunningham will exec produce The Wright Stuff Extra With Gabby Logan, along with C5’s Michelle Chappell.

[Beastie]

Might be okay. Or a Wright Stuff overload.... lol!

[michael21]

Might be okay. Or a Wright Stuff overload.... lol!

I say get rid of the Wright Stuff and just have an hour of the Gabby Logan show :hugesmile:

[Beastie]

I say get rid of the Wright Stuff and just have an hour of the Gabby Logan show :hugesmile:

No!! I like Matthew Wright! :)