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Channel 4 Breakdown - Yorksman - 14-02-2023
Channel 4 is suffering a breakdown in the middle of Countdown.
A blank screen for about a minute, but now it's a programmes continue shortly caption.
Edit: E4, More4 and 4Seven are on air as usual.
Further edit: And now it's back.
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - James Vertigan - 14-02-2023
Adverts pulled on Countdown presumably to catch up on lost programme time.
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - Deev - 14-02-2023
Presumably they're running very behind now and are trying to catch up - Countdown just inelegantly skipped an entire ad break.
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - TesTVWhirl - 14-02-2023
Yeah they were off for over 10 minutes in the end, so I'd guess there's a bit of time to catch up now.
While they may not have anyone available for live continuity during the day now, I am surprised they don't still have something pre-recorded available to kickin automatically during such breakdowns. Given the heavy criticism they got for the loss of all audio description and subtitling the other year you'd have thought when they moved to that new playout system trying to avoid something that leaves 10+ minutes of total silence would have been baked in from the outset!
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - TBNews - 14-02-2023
Seems like they are heading right towards life in the sun.
Edit: Void what I said above, A Place in the Sun is being aired as normal.
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - CCFG - 14-02-2023
Ooh! Breakdown with semi-major effects on schedule time! My favourite time of the year!
I believe a somewhat similar thing happened about late 2014. Here it is on the blue place:
https://tvforum.uk/forums/post936265#post-936265
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - Larry the Loafer - 14-02-2023
British Stuff TV were kind enough to capture it. Kudos to Channel 4 for bucking the trend and still giving the opportunity for pre-recorded shows to fall off air...
https://youtu.be/VXBV-jqS0_0
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - Torpido - 14-02-2023
Apparently a place in the sun was a 45 minute edit not the hour as billed
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - Steve in Pudsey - 14-02-2023
The way the DOG disappears during the black is intriguing, although I guess being on +1 it's likely to be unhelpful in working out what went wrong.
Not C4 Pres's finest breakdown.
RE: Channel 4 Breakdown - JAS84 - 14-02-2023
(14-02-2023, 08:08 PM)Torpido Wrote: Apparently a place in the sun was a 45 minute edit not the hour as billed
A change to the advertised episode then. A logical solution to get the schedule back on track.