No more Mark Carmody on the ABC News

He is a genuine eccentric and looks and acts like a real person – always amazed he lasted as long as he did in the plastic world of TV. Hope he finds a new gig where he can continue to share his love and knowledge of plants.

Mark Carmody made weather reports into pure kitsch! Made me smile every time.

Rollersk8r said :

He’s a likeable duffer and a good Canberran – just was never particularly suited to reading the weather.

In Mark’s very first appearance he referred to “winds light to variable” – a line that will be very familiar to Goon Show fans from The Greenslade Story.

Mark was not an identikit TV presenter – he actually has a personality, although his habit of mentioning some of the more obscure hamlets in the viewing area was probably quite confusing to anyone who wasn’t a local. However, I’d rather him than, for example, Michael Rowlands, the preening clothes horse on ABC News 24 “News Breakfast.” And Ms Housesitter needs to lighten up and not take herself and her trite opinions so seriously…

Little_Green_Bag said :

Virginia will probably be celebrating the most. No longer will she have to engage in silly banter and try to smile whenever he cracks one of his “jokes”.

Virginia has shown a complete lack of aplomb and style, the way she has treated Mark on-air all this time. Not ONE witty or friendly response to Mark’s banter in what, four or five years? Mark’s a terrific Canberran – I hope he will be back for much of the centenary celebrations after his “seniors’ gap year”.

EvanJames said :

c_c said :

It just wasn’t the right role for him, just as you wouldn’t have Costa the organic gardener reading the news.

Guess who the new boss of Gardening Australia is?!

I noticed that and a fine choice I think. I’ve only seen a few snippets over the time since Peter Cundall left, but each time it lacked the energy and passion it had with Peter getting arm deep in blood and bone in his Hobart garden. Costa’s enthusiasm should be great.

Virginia will probably be celebrating the most. No longer will she have to engage in silly banter and try to smile whenever he cracks one of his “jokes”.

Weather presenters should not be on the TV news, the talking head can just as easily read the weather off the teleprompter as she can the other bits, same goes for the pretend sports presenter reading out prepared words. Why have a talking head anyways? Are their any people who actually believe the talking head adds anything to the value of the news?

c_c said :

It just wasn’t the right role for him, just as you wouldn’t have Costa the organic gardener reading the news.

Guess who the new boss of Gardening Australia is?!

He’ll be missed. Most “weather presenters” know little about the weather, at least he had a vested interest in it being a gardener, and a cyclist. I really liked his way of presenting, complete with whatever was on his lapel that day. I guess we’ll get some plastic person who’s done a media degree, and never makes a mistake. Yuck.

Holden Caulfield said :

Any idea who will be replacing him?

I liked Mr Carmody. No doubt they’ll get an “all teeth and t!ts” weather bunny girl in, just like every other channel.

So not all bad news then…

A bit of a love/hate thing happening in our house re Mark.

At least “showers” will get its second syllable back… always have a laugh at the way he says it but couldn’t even start to put his pronounciation in writing “shaaaares” but with more of an “oww” sound??

His enunciation of “Relative Humidity” was a nightly highlight. Will be missed.

Maybe not the greatest weather presenter but I like him and I’ll miss seeing what flower he’s wearing each day.

Ahh … the “ABC Melbourne” person was Edwin Maher. When I lived in Victoria, I listened to him, mystified, when he said “…and continued fine north of the ranges”, because I grew up in a normal state where mountains go north-south, not east-west.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Maher

http://www.theage.com.au/national/accidental-sinologist-20100129-n470.html?skin=text-only

Holden Caulfield said :

Any idea who will be replacing him?

How about no-one. The news presenter is perfectly capable of reading out the weather, and they usually do on the weekends and the days Mark is elsewhere. That way the cash-strapped ABC could spend the money it saves on something more worthwhile.

And I don’t know about inimitable. We do Carmody impersonations about 7:28pm every night in my house. Pregnant pause…. Good Evening Virginia!!

He’s a likeable duffer and a good Canberran – just was never particularly suited to reading the weather.

does that mean he’ll leave the 666 drive show, too? aah, at last!

This would be the best news I’ve heard all week. He was a loon of massive proportions.

Any idea who will be replacing him?

Would be nice to have Mark back on the radio doing the gardening spot on Saturday morning’s. That’s his bag, presenting on TV is not.

Look, he was a terrible weather presenter. Mixing Tim Bailey style lack of focus with a grasp of English second only to Sir Joh B P was never going to work.

That said, by all accounts he’s a nice fellow with a genuine passion for gardening and Canberra, so all the best to him.

It just wasn’t the right role for him, just as you wouldn’t have Costa the organic gardener reading the news.

I like him. Will be missed. By me, anyway

thank christ.

Perhaps he’ll get a job on Chinese TV, like the similarly loved/hated ABC Melbourne weather presenter from the nineties.