is this speculation or fact..?

Guess.

I thought they should have different people taking turns (like the compere role in the original Saturday Live 1st series)

I saw the melody maker interview the other day, and it was interesting that Iain seemed to be trying to distance himself from the material ("all those cock jokes we had to fit in... we did a joke about an earthquake in which 50,000 people died"). Obviously has been brooding on this for ages. But why leave it this late?

Anyhow, I will give the new lineup at least 1 chance.

>is this speculation or fact..?

Fact.

"Iain Lee, you are the weakest link. Goodbye!"

Apparently he's doing a documentary about computer games for Talkback (who represent him). Not terribly exciting stuff, I imagine.

Still expect to see him plastered over some show some time soon.

11 O'Clock Show starts on Tuesday -- Sarah Alexander and Jon Holmes appear to be working well together. Certainly an improvement on Iain Lee. Whole load of new VTs that seem to have more of a point than before.

People may be surprised. But then again, maybe they won't.

Well, well. There's a turn-up. Hiya Jon (past experience suggests he's either reading this or will have it drawn to his attention somehow...)

So, to recap: new presenter. New other presenter. New format. New writers, including nearly everyone I've been following down obscure credit lists for the past two years. And, according to the Channel 4 listings, "a change in style heralds a new makeover for the show" (work that one out, style-manual fans). Could it be that we are not, at last, dealing with the Same Old Original Axe?

Should be interesting.

Did Iain quit because he'd seen the rehearsal script, or what?

Iain did the pilot.

And for anyone who hasn't seen it - http://www.poorquality.co.uk/j&a/

That'll be my Jon and Andy website, then. And the fun starts from www.poorquality.co.uk - it seems you found it from Google, they indexed one of the pages, for no apparent reason.