The BBC et al are pushing this regional accents trend also, and I could manage (e.g.) Stacey Dooley's grating estuary English but for the fact she is apparently incapable of coming up with a single thought that isn't utterly anodyne and predictable. Must the two go together? Contrast her with Maggie Aderin-Pocock from The Sky at Night which I'll be settling down to watch later; the latter happens to tick all the right virtue signalling boxes, but also importantly has a massive brain and is accomplished, deeply knowledgable and interesting to watch. More presenters like the latter please.
Stacey Dooley is like Louis Theroux. You put a bumbling nonthreatening type in there and nobody really suspects them or pushes back against them; you see people in the situation with their guard down, you don't necessarily need insights from the presenter.
> you don't necessarily need insights from the presenter
LT's measured style included subtle but incisive insights is key to his appeal as a broadcaster, whereas SD's style is virtually nonexistent, moronic, execrable..
