The studio was so badly lit it was hard to make out whether we it was the guy from Coast railing against the bloody woke brigade destroying our heritage and blah blah blah or an archive clip of Rick Wakeman on Grumpy Old Men. At one minute to showtime one evening, Neill was told by his director all the external comms were down, so he had no guests and had to fill, on his own, for an hour.

By god, how true it was.Īfter a strong showing in the ratings for the launch night, things rather went downhill. When Andrew Neil signed off from his first two-week stint in the big chair at GB News, he told viewers they 'ain't seen nothing yet'. And then everything came back, and all was as bad as it was before. There was a giddy, snow day vibe to everything. Twitter was the place to be, as if it was 2014 all of a sudden. Reddit went absolutely off its head for a bit. For six days in early October, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger suddenly fell over and it was all very briefly exciting.