Bring back Tom Ellis

How awful is it that Channel 4's 11-p.m. newscasts now get lower ratings than the 10-o'clock news on at least one UHF station (yeah, dammit, I remember when we had a separate dial, yes, dial for UHF and you had to get off the couch and click the dial and move that weird circular antenna in the back - AND WE LIKED IT)? John notes that Tom Ellis, the station's anchor in the seventies, is still kicking around on NECN:

Why not give him a shot?

Tom Ellis? Why not bring back Tony Pepper?