Who Will Be The Nomi Malone To Anna Coren’s Cristal Connors?

In the fast-paced world of television current affairs broadcasting, there’s always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs behind you – just ask Naomi Robson, who was usurped by the younger, blonder Anna Coren. Well, now it’s Coren’s turn to be shown the door (on her request) from the Today Tonight desk. Who is readying their serious face and mistrust of migrants/plumbers/loan sharks/fat kids in anticipation of taking over Coren’s spot? Welcome to the dollhouse, Samantha Armytage! Pay no attention to those “crickets and tumbleweeds” sound FX!

Armytage has been a seamless fill-in and is regarded inside Seven as a good reporter and a warm, natural television host – unlike the cooler Coren.

Coren, who was sprung trying out for a role as a CNN newsreader in Hong Kong, has had a troubled year at the network and her producer boyfriend has already left the show.

Busted! But what I don’t get is why they’re bothering to note that Armytage is “warm and natural” host – isn’t the whole idea of hosting Today Tonight that you come off as a cold-blooded cyborg bitch? Or is that just the impression that I’ve got from the last, oh, three or four hosts of the show?