Zezi Ifore is proof positive that anyone, no matter how inept they are, can become a television presenter with the help of some misplaced media attention.  Zezi (rhymes with lazy, or crazy) who regularly appears on E4 Music and Freshly Squeezed, previously edited fashion magazine Super Super… with a crayon if her on-screen personality is any guide.  Supposedly educated at Oxford University, she gives the impression of someone who would be under qualified for entry into a special school.

She’s a truly awful presenter and a shocking sight at seven o’clock in the morning, but that hasn’t stopped Channel 4 giving her the job of co-presenting Big Brother’s Little Brother in place of Dermot O’Leary.  Why for goodness sake?

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Zezi Ifore (right, with Rick Edwards) goes off-script on Freshly Squeezed.  Where do they find these people?

Liz Fuller, the hard-as-nails presenter of Five’s Quiz Call has what must be the most annoying habit of any television presenter.

Liz, whose only real claim to fame is dumping former boyfriend Paul McKenna live on Auction World back in 2004 and who should realise by now that getting really close to the camera isn’t at all flattering, constantly drums her fingers above the clock that accompanies many of Quiz Call’s games.  But it’s not a real clock; it’s actually an on-screen graphic, which makes the habit all the more irritating.

Nobody was impressed by the “clock tickling” a couple of years ago when she first started doing it, but now the infuriating hand gesture has become nothing more than an extremely bad habit.  Stop it Liz, stop it now.

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“Ding dong, ding ding.”  As entertaining as a tin of spam and with half the charisma, it’s Liz Fuller and her signed photograph.

Live Blackjack is the latest addition to the roster of UK television gambling channels, launched via the Sky platform on Friday 23rd May by NetPlay TV, whose other channels include Live Roulette.

If you’ve played blackjack before, then the interactive concept is a little strange at first and the rules are slightly different, but in essence you have the choice of betting on three hands against the house and all four are dealt from a real shoe by the presenter, so apart from the virtual studio, computer-generated graphics are kept to a minimum.  The player does not get the choice of weather to ‘hit’ or ‘stand’, those decisions are made by some magical force and during the few hours I watched, how they are made was never explained.  The player does however, get the choice of whether to double-down so a certain level of skill is retained.

Live Blackjack strikes a good balance between approachability and serious play, presenters take the time to explain the rules and one even suggested changing channels if viewers needed a rest, albeit to sister channel Live Roulette.  The presenters filling shifts when I watched were the rather smarmy Derek Gibbons and the vastly superior, much more engaging Emily, whose only sin was never to give her second name.  Picture quality is OK but the audio is absolutely lousy, being only marginally better than telephone quality (which is saying something).

A little more audience interaction wouldn’t hurt, perhaps during the half-hourly presenter changeovers in order not to spoil the flow of the game, but Live Blackjack shows promise and it’s a welcome change from the deluge of roulette we’ve suffered recently.

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The lovely Emily shuffles our decks on Live Blackjack.

Live Blackjack can be found on Sky EPG channel 848 and broadcasts from 9pm to 3am every day.

Donna Air is appearing in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it advert.  Along with John Terry, Micholas Anelka, Petr Čech and Michael Essien, it's Donna's job to flog us the latest Samsung Series 6 LCD television.

Apart from a couple of acting roles, most noteably in the absolutely dreadful third series of Hotel Babylon, we haven't seen much of Donna since she took time off to have a daughter with ex-boyfriend Damien Aspinal.  Although unfairly known for not being the sharpest knife in the draw, there's no doubting that she sure is easy on the eye, so fingers crossed she'll be back in front of the photographer's lens fairly soon.

Check out Donna's ball skills in the video...

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For some strange reason, the delectable Susanna Reid is underused at BBC News.  Despite being an outstanding presenter, she only makes it to the BBC Breakfast News couch on a Friday and is deskbound for the remainder of the weekend, but after a stint of over ten years with the BBC, lots of reporting experience around the world studying and a strong background in politics, philosophy and law, it's about time she enjoyed more exposure.

Susanna will be 38 later this year, but she still enjoys a huge fan following and continues to get sexier with every passing day.

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The latest stupid decision from the powers that be at ITV is to limit their upcoming HD channel to the recently launched Freesat platform.

Freesat is the free, satellite offering (hence the name) from ITV and the BBC that aims to provide digital television to those unable to obtain reliable Freeview reception.  For a "one off" payment and the cost of the hardware - £200 receiver, dish installation, HD-ready TV - they're going to offer eighty free-to-air SD channels and coming soon, two HD channels, BBC HD and ITV HD.

Most of the "free" channels are already available via Sky without a subscription, the likes of BBC Three, QVC, Bid-TV, Teacher's TV and Al Jazeera, so there's no reason to get excited about any of that.  But what about the HD? 

BBC HD broadcasts for just a few hours a day, as will ITV, but in addition ITV will be a "Red Button" only service and now that trials have begun, appears to be broadcast using non-standard H.264 within a H.222 transport stream, which makes it totally incompatible with most other HD receivers, including the 550,000 Sky HD boxes that are already installed.  Michael Grade claims he wants HD to become as widespread and as accessible as possible, meaning this decision makes even less sense.

A climb-down is inevitable when ITV realise they're losing out on a considerable amount of advertising revenue and Grade is already laying the groundwork by not ruling out negotiations with Sky. "We are a commercial organisation and won't give it to Sky for nothing."

Well Mr. Grade, Sky probably don't consider your programming worth paying for and what's more, if ITV used a standard HD broadcast method, every Sky HD owner could watch the channel completely free of charge without ITV having to involve Sky at all. 

So the question is; why bother with Freesat?  If you're going to the trouble of installing a satellite dish, then Sky is the obvious choice, depending on the package the hardware and installation costs less (£150), there are more free channels both SD and HD (BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, Luxe TV), the possibility of upgrading to the premium services and a whole host of HD sports, movies and documentary channels just a telephone call away.