I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago and thought it was well worth watching. At least it made a break from the mainly repeated rolling news. I'm sure viewing figures are pretty much as they would be for the rest of the time on that channel and in any case they don't really matter. It also generates useful interviews to use snippets of during the main news, so it serves a useful purpose.
A self-serving purpose. Those "snippets" wouldn't normally be worthy of making the main bulletins, but no doubt James Harding has ordered his editors to include VD excerpts and "make sure you mention this was from the VD show".
...and collecting an astonishing payout, which is the standard BBC reward for failure.
I'm sure they'll keep trying Derbyshire in a number of different formats until they finally find one which suits her - extremely limited - 'talents'. It's called the 'Clare Balding Formula'.
Balding seems pretty competent though. They may stick her presenting sports that nobody has heard of and only 3 people in the world compete in but tends to do her research and is professional about it.
A self-serving purpose. Those "snippets" wouldn't normally be worthy of making the main bulletins, but no doubt James Harding has ordered his editors to include VD excerpts and "make sure you mention this was from the VD show".
Yet in spite of all the BBC advertising this program gets the ratings remain dreadful. Mind you the trailed dressed up as news on BBC Breakfast today was so dull the advertising is probably backfiring!
I was watching BBC TV last night and up popped yet another advertisement for the Victoria Derbyshire show. The BBC must now have given it as many plugs as it has viewers!
Sadly Victoria's pedestrian delivery and the dull nature of the topics probably only meant that viewers decided to avoid it.
She seems to have disappeared from the BBC News channel countdown however.No show on BBC2 on Friday because of the grand prix (although she doesn't seem to work Fridays in any case).
I was watching BBC TV last night and up popped yet another advertisement for the Victoria Derbyshire show. The BBC must now have given it as many plugs as it has viewers!
Sadly Victoria's pedestrian delivery and the dull nature of the topics probably only meant that viewers decided to avoid it.
I wonder if the News channel's ratings will ever recover from VD.
The trouble with these topic based human interest shows is that if you aren't interested in the topic you won't watch.
I am one of those who doesn't find the human interest angle attractive, and don't give a f*ck about what the man in the street thinks about things.
The trouble with these topic based human interest shows is that if you aren't interested in the topic you won't watch.
I am one of those who doesn't find the human interest angle attractive, and don't give a f*ck about what the man in the street thinks about things.
The man/woman on the street is usally as thick as pig-s**t anyway.:D
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A self-serving purpose. Those "snippets" wouldn't normally be worthy of making the main bulletins, but no doubt James Harding has ordered his editors to include VD excerpts and "make sure you mention this was from the VD show".
Froome still yellow.
Yet in spite of all the BBC advertising this program gets the ratings remain dreadful. Mind you the trailed dressed up as news on BBC Breakfast today was so dull the advertising is probably backfiring!
VD - "Hello Carol, how are you today?"
CK - "I'm very well thank you Victoria, how are you??".
But, the slightly awkward interactions with various other weather people carry on regardless so...there's still occasional amusement to be had there.
Whenever I watch and despite VD's name being plastered over the screen I still think I'm watching Kaye Adams half the time.
So you think it's a dig. Rather than mere chewing the cud?
Sadly Victoria's pedestrian delivery and the dull nature of the topics probably only meant that viewers decided to avoid it.
BBC please get rid.
I wonder if the News channel's ratings will ever recover from VD.
Should do if they went back to the rolling news format.
They seem to run the trailer every hour on the hour - it makes tomorrow's programme sound incredibly dull. Sign of desperation methinks.
Is it worse than Matthew Wright?
Mind you I've heard she has 'lovely films' though.
I am one of those who doesn't find the human interest angle attractive, and don't give a f*ck about what the man in the street thinks about things.
heard VD host a couple of rather uncomfortable discussions on marital infidelity when she had her radio programme
Was Fi Glover a guest ?:D
Someone should remind her she went to Preston Polytechnic, not Oxbridge.