[steve]

Ah yes, fading down grandad on Mrs Brown's Boys getting hit on the head with a frying pan, then the bizarre announcement about a statement from President Zuma, and finally cutting inelegantly to the news channel. Not the BBC's finest hour...

I still can’t get my head around how badly this was handled. Presumably Mandela was a Cat 1 which justified immediate interruption but the way it happened was just bizarre.

I wonder if the much more elegant way of interrupting programmes and going straight to news bypassing pres (as with DofE and when Buck Palace put out statement re QEII health) was partly a result of this shambles.

If they’d just run as normal for that 11 minutes into Huw at 10 it would have been immeasurably better.