I'm sure she's perfectly nice, but I find her and her little girl mannerisms completely annoying.

She's too buy trying to be ironic. Perhaps we'll see a different side to her...

I only listened to the Kermode/Mayo podcast last night where Kermode was insisting that it wouldn't be him. But secretly I was thinking they simply hadn't decided... Surely he would be ideal?

I don't really know much about Ms Winkleman, though I did see her peering out from behind her eyelashes on a sports relief dancing programme briefly. Does she have form when it comes to film? Is she a proper fan? Can she really be as good as Ross was, let alone as good as Kermode could have been?

But not right for that show.

but isn't it nice that a tv programme which is seen as a venerable British institution has taken on as it's new presenter someone who isn't male? And that in choosing a female presenter they have selected someone with many years of TV/ radio/ journalism experience? It'll never catch on, sadly.

It wouldn't be healthy for MK to be presenting that show. He's pretty much the voice of the BBC as regards matters cinema already. We ought to have an alternative perspective.

OK, open disclosure, I can't stand the woman, an opinion only compounded by my nepotism radar twitching madly whenever Eve Pollard's daughter appears on-screen.

Phrased so that this doesn't become an anti-BBC rant, why do all the channels insist on drawing from such a small pool of presenting talent? When this job came up, did they just go "Right, who's on contract? Graham Norton... Adrian Chiles... Paxo... ah, Claudia Winkleman, perfect!"

Yes, let's give her a chance, but my prediction is at the Andi Peters/TOTP end of the spectrum...

as the BBC buried it in the late-night schedule, but Ross at least gave genre films a chance, something that Norman in his pomposity NEVER did. Hopefully Winkers will maintain this healthy balance. Angie Errigo is another name I'd have considered.
Kermode is fine where he is, and he knows it. He can say what he likes without being censored and that works for his (growing?) audience.

...I listen to her arts show on Radio 2 on a Friday night. It is halfway to being intelligent and certainly belies the little girl image that comes through on TV. I'm not sure that we all thought Ross would be any good when he took over, so I'll give her a chance - just the one mind!

I've never heard her arts show. The thing about her that annoys is that she's obviously intelligent. But why does she insist on the school girl persona!?!?

I guess it does work for some people...

Meanwhile, I liked Ross as a choice for the show. Perhaps because I knew he was a film fanatic. I trusted his judgement quite a lot.

Thing is though, I can't think of many mainstream presenters who I would put on the show...at least it's not Myleene...

that her half sister, Sophie, recently married Lord Freddie Windsor so perhaps HRH had a hand in this?

start. Not "oh great the BBC taken on someone enthusiastic and intelligent to present a mainstream film show". I like Claudia she seems to take popular entertainment with the seriousness and lightness it deserves. As to who she's related to, none of us can do anything about that.
I like Kermode but it will be good to have someone not so obsessed with horror films review the latest releases for a change. I think it's a good decision over all.

but she's the last person I'd ever have imagined doing Film 2010.

Perhaps that's a good thing.

We should bear in mind, Chris G, that not everyone you hold dear is everyone's else's cup of tea, and vice versa.

Don't bleed on her behalf. She can take it.

And there's nothing you or I can do about it.

I admit she grates on me but I say give the woman a chance to not grate by presenting a worthwhile and informative review show instead of some jelly-headed schedule filler.

She may be under contract along with all the other gurning ninnies we see but I assume some sort of audition process took place. She must have some suitability.

said he was never up for it, never wanted it and they would never give it to him as sure as he'd never take it

"I'd have to pretend the best film of last year was Avatar and not a Swedish vampire film. And that the best film of the last ten years wasn't a fantasy film set during the Spanish Civil War"

The point of Film 20nwhatecver seems to be pretty much seeing the good in anything even the most wretched rom-com starring Jennifer Aniston.

If he had more of a profile they would have given it to James King as he's mini Kermode with mainstream sensibilities

Hello Mark if you're reading this as we know you lurk. And hello to Jason Issacs

For those complaining about her little girl mannerisms and schoolgirl persona, maybe she really is full of wide-eyed enthusiasm. Just because world-weary cynicism is the preferred style round here, doesn't make it the only available way to look at the world.

Or, if we want to think of the more cynical option, maybe she made a choice when she started her career. After all women, especially in the media, tend to be divided by the world around them into neat categories and if you are intelligent with strong opinions they tend not to be very complimentary.

Gauntlet,
While I agree it's dreadful that women are categorised unfairly in the media - Claudia Winkleman displays neither intelligence nor strong opinions through her bouts of mugging gormlessly and reading autocue on Strictly Come Dancing or being Steve Jones' stooge on Sport Relief.
Her bezzie mate Victoria Coren would have been brilliant as would Lauren Laverne who has begun to tame the annoying 'head twitching denoting latent irony' which had afflicted her until recently.
Although a tad high brow and left field what about the likes of Verity Sharp, Caitlin Moran, Jude Rogers of this parish as example?
Nothing to do with her being a woman, just that she's not very good.
My sister, however worships at the feet of la Winkleman.

There's going to be about five people who present everything on TV in exactly the same style - like the skit on the Impressions Show when Winkleman and Davina McCall meet.

Might iplayer it. Just listening to her being interviewed by Richard Bacon, and she seems alright, if slightly too obsessed with saying how many films she watches.

I had the impression she was another Tess Daly/Philip Schofield type; if she's from the Ross/Kermode/Laverne school of enthusiasts then I can't complain. Also interesting that they're turning it into more of a magazine-style panel show.

there's a talent vacuum right there. If Tara Palmer Thingee walked in the studio Radio 5 would be sucked in on itself.

Listened to Bacon's show from the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs last week and the only decent bit of interviewing was whenj guest Jimmy Carr quizzed some of the kids with great sensitivity and interest. Bacon is completely out of his depth in anything more than a puddle.

I guess that Winkleman's 'Film' show is going to be like her Oscar coverage show by the sound of it.

on "Have I got News For You" a few times (Has she been the compere?), and I thought she was really funny; many of the gusts are cannon fodder for Merton and Hislop wheras CW has held her own against them as far as I recall.

so I'll be watching.

For about ten years, and don't care either way. And I'm almost amazed, in an age when hundreds of reviews are within reach via the web, and that you can watch any trailer via YouTube or wherever, that this appointment should be greeted with any fuss at all. Are people still watching? And if so, why?

Ms Winkleman speaks via twitter:
"..... won't just be me. will be with clever critics. roll on September."

that she'll be to film what Richard and Judy were to Literature,fine if you like it dumbed down.Snobbish? Maybe.As long as I can continue to find a more illuminated opinion each to their own.Never could stand Ross or Norman,It just seems a shame that the B.B.C. have settled for a minor celeb again instead of someone with a background in film who might have raised the bar a little.Oh Well.

a Late Review type format with Ms W chiming in with 'now we LOVE Keira Knightly, don't we?' every now and again.

the only film review show I could ever stick was Johnny vaughan's which just had Joe Public (often students) on reviewing and snappy pieces by Vaughan in between. Was it called 'Moviewatch'?

..she's not J Ross.

Two things struck me upon hearing this news.

First, would it be possible to film the Mayo/Kermode radio show that everyone raves about and edit that into a new-style film review show?

Second, you gotta feel sorry for someone like Andrew Collins. He clearly knows his onions re:film. Clearly it must be deemed that he doesn't have the look for TV.

Finally, Claudia is better now she has stopped impersonating Davina McCall, but she is still too lightweight and gushing to make any critical analysis. And what the f*ck does she know about film heritage anyway?

... ‘What are her film reviewing credentials?' and I couldn’t think of any.

Next point, I saw was that she’d done interviews on the red carpet for the BAFTA’s, and that made me nervous. A qualification like that would make me an expert in banking as I walk past a branch of HSBC every day.

Reading on, and it all fell into place – they are giving the show a new look. One presenter and experts to do the reviewing. That means she can do the red carpet style interviews of the stars and be all nice to them, while the critics can lay the boot in (depending I suppose on who these critics are).

I’ll watch the first one to see how it’s being done – but I’m a little sceptical.

very big eyes, and could probably take in at least three films a day without blinking. Maybe that's why she got the gig?

so I'll be watching. She'll be on telly talking about films made for a mass audience, it's not like they've asked her to present something important like Match Of The Day. Tsh, you guys!

Mind you, I've being saying that about Kermode for years, so what do I know?

I don't believe this. A bunch of old farts arguing about whether some bimbo should present a TV programme about films that no one ever watches on purpose anyway.

Claudia is funny and intelligent and already presents arts programming. (actually I have quite a girl crush on Claudia, I think she's really lovely.)

From the responses, you'd have thought BBC appointed Fearne Cotton & George Lamb...

Don't give them any help Hannah or they will be shoe-horned into Newsnight before you can say "Beam me up Scotty".