From what I've seen the whole ITV News agenda has been like that.

BBC1 ran a trailer tonight for the new series of Live At The Apollo starting next Saturday. This means from herein Strictly can't finish on a Saturday after 8pm as their schedule will be...

8.00 Merlin
8.45 Lottery
8.55 Casualty
9.45 Apollo
10.15 News
10.30 MOTD

BBC1 has also started the trailers for their two big upcoming dramas, The Secret Of Crinkley Bottom() and Last Tango In Halifax.

He wasn't DG at the time but he was Director of Vision (head of TV in BBC-speak) so he was in the chain of command, sort of one level down from the DG of the time (Mark Thompson).

Ironically this was probably done to boost ratings as they've been desperately plugging One Direction all week, but like you I can see it having the opposite effect.

No surpprise about Entwhistle resigning.


More here.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...e?referrer=RSS

BBC never recovered from The Hutton Inquiry.

Sky's and The Mail's too. If attempting to close to the BBC is the best shot any of them have of overtaking the Beeb then they may as well close themselves.

Obviously spun as a way to boost ratings but I suspect they're having guests on Saturdays now to fill the spot vacated by Lucy with ITV not being willing to cut an ad break out of the show by shortening it (though tonights show could have been 15 minutes shorter without losing any ads).

Also if it is for ratings doesn't really help that ITV2 showed them doing exactly the same performance on the US version last night.

The BBC themselves do a very good job of attempting to close themselves down, with the recent Panorama/endless 'investigations' as headline news etc.

Christmas special of Jonathan Ross has been announced. Probably airing either on Sat 22nd or Christmas Eve I would have thought.

Still seemed odd to leave them until the end though. Would have been better as an 'interval act' to stop people from switching off as soon as all the acts had performed, as I suspect quite a few did.

Although ironically the BBC is probably its own worst enemy. Bit fed up of this self-flagellating now. They need to grow some balls.

It finished around 7-8 minutes earlier aswell. It seems that they couldn't slot in three performances in one results show unless they extend it by 15 minutes which has only happened once (series 7, results show six).

I probably agree with you. It might be a few hundred thousand up on last weeks show (probably 7.8-7.9m?) but I don't expect to see a huge jump. If it does, however, I will be quite shocked.

This is not the thread for it in any way, shape or form, but at least they bring themselves to the limelight and hold themselves accountable, unlike other media organisations....

The self-flagellation is essential to the BBC's reputation for impartiality; bit of a paradox as it helps to damage its reputation at the same time.

EDIT: What D.M.N. said.

Agreed.

I haven't noticed any difference in the tone of reporting by BBC, ITV or Sky.

But seems that where it's the BBC it's 'being accountable' whilst for anyone else it's having a go.

Best episode of XF in at least two years tonight IMO.

May be too late though,.

First person I have heard say that.

The ratings, as well as the time the peak came, will be interesting.

What was so good about it?

So much has been written about it on here, many will struggle to find any TXF ratings 'interesting'

The launch of I'm a Celeb on Sunday night will be more interesting.

Now that he has gone I think Newsnight as a brand is in more danger.

Sun headline is:

Bye

Bye

Chump

Sky and ITV struggling to hide their delight at Entwistle's resignation.

Ben Bradshaw staunchly defending GE on BBC now-there are many shades of opinion clearly,

Apollo is a six week run, the first show is Dara O Briain, Nina Conti and Danny Bhoy.

The other 5 weeks have the following comics- Rhod Gilbert, Kerry Godliman, Jon Richardson, Kevin Bridges, Sara Pascoe, Phill Jupitus, Lee Nelson, Stewart Francis, Paul Chowdhry, Greg Davies, Hal Cruttenden, Simon Evans, Omid Djalili and Julian Clary.

Business as usual, pretty much.

Source www.chortle.co.uk

Schofield will survive, although it might put a dent in his standing in the short run. As for Cameron, the gay thing may have been unnecessary but he was certainly right to dismiss that particular piece of "research".


From the demos I've seen from Rzt, yes it does. It's usually the #2 show (excluding soaps) among 16-34's after X Factor.


He was Director of Vision at the time (a ridiculously pretentious title for "Head of TV", got to keep the HR department busy I guess!). So he was very much in the chain of command and some of the questions from MP's focussed on his time in that role (as we so often hear at parliament these days, he wasn't 100% sure, he didn't know it was happening, he didn't think to ask...).

He ultimately had to go, he's very damaged goods. The error here might be letting him go so soon. The press are loving this, especially after the phone hacking thing. But he was a shield - the public weren't impressed, the media weren't impressed so he was a good target. And providing target practice is the main reason people like Jeremy Hunt and Rebekah Brooks (have) kept their jobs. They desperately need to stop screwing up or else there will need to be another target.

It has been a spectacular mess. Who'd have thought that one week ago, with such desire to change the news agenda and focus on "political paedos", the BBC would again find itself at the centre of a public storm?