The Express claims that Radio 2 is playing hardball with Jeremy Vine, as he prepares to start his new Channel 5 tv show, replacing The Wright Stuff with Matthew Wright, set to launch in September.
Last month Jeremy, 53, claimed it was "a perfect fit with my ongoing role at Radio 2".
But the paper says the BBC have told Jezza he's still got to show up an hour before on-air time, to meet with the production team and discuss the show's content.
The Wright Stuff is live every weekday from 9.15am to 11.15am. Allowing for an 11 minute cycle ride from ITN Studios in Grays Inn Road to Wogan House, and perhaps some work on armpits etc before meeting his R2 producers, it leaves Jeremy less than half-an-hour to take on board the myriad details of his always-challenging radio content. (Interestingly, that's all Vanessa Feltz gets between leaving Radio 2 at 6.30am and starting on Radio London for three hours, at 7.00am).
Who's going to blink first ?
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An hour? An hour? Vine's preparation for his programme involves a quick skip through The Guardian and Daily Mail (so he gets an unbiased view of both sides of each story) while he drinks a posh coffee. I wonder why the BBC want to quadruple his preparation time? It certainly won't make the programme any better...
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