Discursive

The BBC always likes to keep an eye on its people who move to Channel 4, in case they threaten a re-appearance. It seems Jay Hunt's style has not been changed so far by her time at Horseferry Road.

She was on parade with Kirsty Young yesterday, at the Edinburgh TV Festival. One Twitterer wrote "Jay Hunt talks without taking breaths; she is a robot, I am now convinced". And these three pieces from the Digital Spy blog of the session gives you more of the flavour.

Jay is defending the controversy surrounding The Undateables and the underwhelming Hoarder Next Door. She has now increased her speaking to 1,000-words-a-minute. She's getting feisty and battling any criticism of her channel. 

Jay switches the subject to the "compelling", "innovating" and "overwhelming success" of Million Pound Drop.

Q&A time. Jay is asked if the channel still provokes real authority or if it just pushes levels of taste. She insists that the channel isn't the "kid at the back of the bus". She lists the channel's Sri Lanka shows, the Unreported World series and the ticket tout docs as evidence. She has a bit of a head-to-head with the questioner. "I was underwhelmed by the answer," says the audience member, "I was underwhelmed by the question," she says dryly.

It seems no-one else was then brave enough to ask a question.