[Stuart]

One of the things I've always disliked about the news channel, the absolutely dire back half hour programmes they put out at weekends, bank holidays and overnights. As I've often heard people on here say, quite often they're not even relevent to a UK audience- which is going to be a huge problem for the news channel in general from now on.

I have always quite liked the back-half-hour programmes such as Click, the Travel Show, Media Show, HARDtalk, World Business Report etc.  I am looking forward to perhaps seeing more that was previously restricted to just WN.

The reason why the ITN/ITV News Channel failed is because it was just rolling news ad nauseam, with very little else. They couldn't keep a viewer for more than 15 minutes.

Sky News throws in variety with specific programming at different times of day.