[Ash101]

But who does it serve other than political/news junkies like all of us posting here? Hearing party spokespeople repeat the same lines the audience just heard for 75 minutes belongs on a news channel, not on primetime BBC1 - it’s just beyond weird other than trying to force the Kuenssberg/Myrie partnership on the viewing public before next Thursday.

Viewing breakdown tomorrow will be interesting (guess is the football comfortably beat the debate anyway and the audience nosedived further after 2130).

Yeah but then I guess that's kind of the point? There's already a limited audience watching the debate because of the football on the other side, so they might as well keep some of those into 9:30 and then into News at 10...what would a random repeat of a half hour comedy have really achieved?