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Talking of cost, I’m surprised the travel show and all those filler programmes haven’t had the chop, as filling the back half hour with the on air presenter is cheaper? Or do we think filler programmes are a good thing for the news chann?

Personally, I'd prefer more news at weekends, but the fillers must be somewhat cost-effective or they would've been axed a while back (though World are actually scaling back fillers a bit from April). The Travel Show is probably one of the more expensive to produce, but I believe the world versions are sponsored and have in the past carried product placement - so their costs must be commercially covered somewhat. Click and Talking Movies are similar.

I certainly do think more could be done with weekends and it's a little odd that cheap-as-chips stuff like Reporters and Dateline London have gone, but there are certainly other directions they could take things in - I know they hinted at new sports programming last year, I wouldn't be surprised if this involved something on Saturday afternoon back-halves.