I agree that it seemed like it didn't know whether it wanted to be Newstopia or the Micallef Programme but I'm sure that it will settle in a couple weeks. I definitely do prefer his skit writing over the "news" presenting, but if it was more of a Newstopia type program I wouldn't complain. I missed out on his monologue so I'll go back and watch it - his monologue was my favourite thing on Micallef Tonight.
Scary thing is how many times he gets retweeted by people I follow. Twitter seems to have got him off bigfooty at least......though not sure how he can do it in the character limit!
I think it's the right moment to say it's great having you back! You've enlivened proceedings around 'ere greatly. Someone needs to keep us on our toes.