28-01-2023, 02:01 PM
(28-01-2023, 12:46 PM)Andrew Wrote: The one channel change I could see working both in terms of boosting numbers and lowering the budget, is moving Newsnight to BBC One, but only airing Monday to Wednesday
Overlapping the end of the Ten and the regions must harm it, clashing with Question Time must do as well.
And surely only the most die hard news junkie wants news and analysis at 10:30pm on a Friday night
If a 3 day week was too much of a cut introduce a short lived “Newsnight Weekend” somewhere on Saturday or Sunday that is subsequently quietly axed when the dust settles
If you were trying to avoid an overlap with Question Time I wonder would moving the Thursday edition of Newsnight to after Question Time on BBC One be an option? It could perhaps be a shorter half hour edition and then as you suggest drop the Friday edition on BBC Two.