28-01-2023, 05:19 PM
(28-01-2023, 05:03 PM)Jon Wrote: Well that’s a personal opinion rather than some quantifiable fact. I guess even if you hate Question Time you’d have to agree it would depend which 5 minutes of Newsnight you take.I guess a fair trade would be five minutes where Newsnight fell off air or accidentally broadcast some drying concrete - those are both things with greater public service value than a programme than has devolved into The Jeremy Kyle Show for politicos. I do wonder how much of an overlap there actually is between Newsnight and Question Time's audience - I mean, one is reasoned political analysis and the other is very much the opposite.
I think the point is the audiences for both programmes would in theory be similar so it would sensible to not schedule them against each other and save for the production costs of a one night of Newsnight.