18-12-2022, 04:33 PM
(18-12-2022, 01:02 PM)DTV Wrote:Producers don’t just extend their programme on a whim. They’ll have been given a very specific slot.(18-12-2022, 11:17 AM)Andrew Wrote: Sunday with Laura K was cut off 5 minutes before the end on the News Channel this morning so they could hit the top of the hour
This proves it isn’t being scheduled on there as a proper service and basically just as a filler for an hour so they don’t have to make a proper News programme
To be honest, I think this is more on the Kuenssberg team than the BBC News channel team. Regardless of the merits of the simulcast, it was scheduled to end at 10:00 but, for the second week in a row, overran. And, quite frankly, this isn't really OK. News has got into a bad habit in recent years of extending programmes/overrunning at the drop of a hat. On big news days extending a bulletin might be acceptable, particularly as extending the Ten doesn't have a bit impact on wider scheduling. But on these sorts of current affairs programming it's not really warranted - if you've failed to time your interviews correctly, that's the programme makers' fault and network shouldn't be okaying the overrun. A light entertainment producer would get it in the neck if they were consistently overrunning a live programme.
Blame the schedulers, not LK’s team.