I hate to even bring up the topic, but there's going to be that sad day along the lines of how I always used to wonder what would the impact on the British public when John Peel dies be, but applied instead to Sir Patrick Moore. I really don't look forward to that inevitability at all.
It could be that the role of host of the programme might go to a specific person, or it could be that it goes to a roster of guests, such as Dr Brian May, PhD, lead guitarist of Queen, among others - perhaps even Angus Deayton, David Bowie and ultimately Russell Grant.
If it turns out that it will then have no fixed presenter, the programme could be renamed in mondegreen style to "This Guy At Night".-- Ian Tindale, Sep 07 2009 The Sky At Night http://www.bbc.co.u...e/space/skyatnight/ [Ian Tindale, Sep 07 2009] Bike ride to the Moon http://www.youtube....watch?v=vWM0gh-FNv8(Were it Graham Baxter) [nineteenthly, Sep 08 2009] If you're not familiar with Patrick Moore and The Sky At Night, I'd urge you to rectify that shortcoming. It's pretty much one of the ideal television programmes that an archetypical halfbaker would appreciate, and indeed, the eccentric Patrick is very much kindred.-- Ian Tindale, Sep 07 2009 "This guy is falling! This guy is falling!!"-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 07 2009 Brian May, Heather Couper, Adam Hart-Davies?-- nineteenthly, Sep 07 2009 there's always Jezza Clarkson.
19thly subscribes to the same mag as me.-- po, Sep 07 2009 Bring back Magnus Pyke! Bring back Heinz Wolffe! Bring back Graham Baxter (ok, dis-inter Graham Baxter).-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 07 2009 you are joking!? Jezza, Capn Slow & thingy would being the universe to life.-- po, Sep 07 2009 Professor Stanley Unwin would get my vote.-- gnomethang, Sep 07 2009 If they presented it from the Alps in the winter, maybe it could become "The Ski At Night" ?
We nominate the late Tony Blair as presenter.-- 8th of 7, Sep 07 2009 I'd vote for Jools Hollands-- zen_tom, Sep 07 2009 [Po], ?!?! New Scientist? European Journal of Herbal Medicine?Magnus Pyke is dead but i'm pretty sure Heinz Wolffe isn't. I'm never going to forgive a certain person for the "spreading jam on a CD" incident which has forever left us with a cavalier attitude to optical discs, but unfortunately i can't remember who that was. I like to think it was William Woolard, but Graham Baxter's another possibility. Whoever it was, he can't be trusted with the whole Universe.-- nineteenthly, Sep 07 2009 I think we should just stick to the reruns.-- zeno, Sep 07 2009 Sometimes you brits speakum a whole different language.-- blissmiss, Sep 07 2009 I'd vote for the Clangers.-- xenzag, Sep 07 2009 //but Graham Baxter's another possibility//sp. "Raymond"-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Sep 08 2009 Oh God, you're right, of course! How did that happen?Then again, Sir Patrick Moore used to have a Ford Prefect which had been to the Moon and back in terms of its road miles, so maybe Graham Baxter could have a bike which did the same. Bike ride to the Moon?-- nineteenthly, Sep 08 2009 //Sir Patrick Moore used to have a Ford Prefect //I wonder what Arthur had to say about that?-- coprocephalous, Sep 08 2009 Recently, because it was the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, I saw a bit of a contemporary BBC news report from 1969, which had the presenter interviewing Patrick Moore about what a momentous day it was, etc. - he was great, and almost exactly the same as he is now on The Sky at Night.-- hippo, Sep 08 2009 Greetings, carbon-based bipeds! Now, here is the news.-- UnaBubba, Sep 08 2009 halfbakery