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Oops. What happens when the autocue fails?

Video: Nine News weather presenter Rebecca Judd attempted to soldier on with scripts after the autocue failed.

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Ever have one of those days when the autocue fails?

Nine News weather presenter Rebecca Judd did today, but attempted to soldier on with scripts before eventually throwing to presenter Peter Hitchener -who even offered to give it a whirl himself…

 

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    1. Kerrby, you have the advantage of anonymity. Not sure which part of the story didn’t interest you, but you chose to click on it, along with thousands of others. Always looking for a sense of fun in telly and I understand Nine took this in good spirit.

  3. OMG, the weather girl dies when the autocue fails. Should work in a station where she wouldn’t have an autocue (yes, there are still some).
    But, yes, a pro would have sailed through it and nobody would have noticed.

  4. If she was any good she could have just looked at the screen and talked through what was on screen….stepping through slide by slide…and fudged her way through it….It ain’t rocket science. Quite easy really……Clearly no qualifications for the job. Give me Mag Rose on TEN any day!!!

  5. So by that it seems someone handed Rebecca Judd a first page and blank pages to a final page. Either that or the sheets were not in order or the printer spat out extra blank sheets and whomever gave them to Rebbcca never checked.. Seems strange she would swap papers and then look bamboozled and throw back to Peter Hitchener, as she was fine reading the first sheet.

  6. At least she can laugh about it. She isnt the only person who has lost there words.

    But im pretty sure Giann Rooney has said she doesnt have an autocue she just goes off the map.

    @TVluva Rebecca did the weather in perth for a while

  7. The value of hiring someone who knows what they’re on about! Rob Gell could have read the weather while simultaneously fixing the autocue machine. He wouldn’t have looked so hot in the dress though.

  11. Technical difficulties? She read off a piece of paper instead of from an autocue, and then when she got to the bottom of the first page, she didn’t know how to get to get to the next page underneath.

    Reading.. apparently it’s just like riding a bicycle, except for some presenters who just forget.

  12. The face she makes in the first few seconds is priceless it’s like “wait, seriously guys, you actually want me to do this” Bec handled it well for the novice she is, but very poorly handled by the director. As has been mentioned, surely she could be off to the side reading the scripts, she was never going to interact with the screen while holding a piece of paper.

    It must have been a real last second issue. She doesn’t even seem to know what is on the papers in her hand or what order the sheets are in.

  13. I wish Rebecca concentrated her speech and language skills in the area she’s most qualified in. A far better use of skills for the people who need it most.

  14. Really?! She had to read “good evening” from a script?

    If these networks actually hired real meteorologists/presenters, they wouldn’t need a script for half the segment and the other half could be fed to them via their earpiece instead of the always unprofessional ‘piece of paper’ approach.

  18. Okay, I don’t work in TV, but surely they could have shown the maps and the satellite blah blah, and had Ms Judd off-camera reading the report from the weather bureau? Put an iPad in her hands for goodness sake.

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