18-12-2022, 04:49 PM
(18-12-2022, 04:33 PM)chris Wrote:(18-12-2022, 01:02 PM)DTV Wrote: 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.Producers don’t just extend their programme on a whim. They’ll have been given a very specific slot.
Blame the schedulers, not LK’s team.
Well they did extend on a whim this morning as it was still scheduled to end at 10:00 right up to the last moment, so yes it is LK's team on this one.