[chris]

At this point, I feel like we really have to wait and see what the UK opt actually is in practice before we write it off completely. Of course in the absence of information there will always be speculation, but it is clear that we now have to wait and see (partially because it sometimes seems like the BBC themselves don't know what is happening).

On the plus side, this forum's expectations are so low that it wouldn't actually be hard for the BBC to leave us all pleasantly surprised by the service.

Not sure about that - I think some people genuinely think there will be a team sitting there twiddling their thumbs, waiting for UK breaking news to happen.