The Steph Show

What a fantastic show. I have always watched Loose Women, but turned over one day when I was bored. Now I am hooked every day. It's got plenty of everything you need to hear midday. The job vacancy slots are so helpful and it's a relaxed and funny show with lots of appropriate news items in bite size slots. Steph is so down to earth and her guests show they are real people. I love the format...well done you have converted me. Pat

Just how dumbed down can we go? I'm not sure if the appalling sound quality or the lack of talent irritated me more...no actually it was someone whom apparently is a comedian. Poor old Mr Motivator looked like he was questioning his decision to return to the screen...

I often catch bits of this whilst waiting for Countdown to come on, and I really think it's the worst program on television. It doesn't know what it wants to be. Loose Women meets The One Show meets Saturday Kitchen meets This Morning, and the result is 100 mind-numbingly dull minutes designed to appeal to the working lunch, but doesn't really appeal to anyone. There are really bad similarities with "All Round to Mrs Brown's", in that the show really doesn't know what it's trying to do. I've never been a fan of McGovern either which doesn't help, and some of her "assistants" are pulled from the "did they really need the money that badly?" pool of celebrity talent. Avoid.

I've never heard anything good about this programme but had a certain respect for Steph McGovern so turned on (very briefly) today. What on earth has happened to her? False excitement and chumminess, and an interesting doctor interrupted by Katie Price which begs the question why is someone as insignificant as Price a guest. Is it an indication of how badly the programme is thought of by halfway decent people and she's the only level they can attract?

I commend the team for putting something together to fill this slot. It can't be easy to produce a daily show when we're in lockdown. I do think it's pretty terrible so far though. My main issue is the quality of the presenter, but she isn't helped by the banality of the content. Steph McGovern used to be a business correspondent for the BBC and I thought she was pretty good there. I had it on each morning and felt that she did a decent job of talking about the markets etc, and she had a nice enough personality etc. All fine. However, I really don't think this new career hosting her own light entertainment show is her forte. Firstly, she radiates uncertainty and unease. I never feel comfortable that she's completely in control and driving the show like I do when I watch the presenters of other morning shows. Next, she doesn't seem to listen to her guests' answers when she interviews them. She asks a (usually boring) question, the guest responds, and rather than building on their response and having a bit of a conversation she says something like "yeah, yeah" and asks something different. There isn't much to talk about in a lockdown but I think a better interviewer would give the viewer at home an interesting conversation to watch. Next, I think she waffles quite a lot. I don't know if she has a script but it feels to me like there is no script and the producers have just said to her "right, we need you to fill these next 3 minutes". She'll start talking about something and by the time she's moving on to the next segment you're not really sure what the point of what she just said was. I think she'd be better if she had a script, memorised it and just read that rather than spouting aimlessly. Maybe the show will improve when it has a live audience and studio guests. I'm sure the absence of that has been a real challenge because it usually makes a show sizzle, and this show definitely doesn't sizzle at the moment. My overall verdict is that this is an amateur production with an amateur presenter that does not deserve its slot on Channel 4.