[Stuart]

Leaving your continued fantasies of a wholesale reversal aside, this is probably the most nonsensical of all your suggestions yet - what possible justification could there be for replacing the US and Singapore overnight hours with UK-only news content? That's not just when the channel's audience is at its lowest, but is when it is so low that they couldn't even justify separate overnights after four months of News 24 back in 1998 - when the channel was nearly all bespoke UK-only and non-simulcast content.

I always admire your comments, DTV, but I don't think this is what people are suggesting.

I think the BBC should just come clean and admit that it's really an international news operation mainly funded commercially and operate it in that way (sans adverts in UK). There is scope within any schedule to insert local content without needlessly telling the rest of the World about it.

I'm not suggesting any sort of reversal. The merger has happened, but they need to sort out how it is played out in the UK and internationally as it appears to be something of a mangled mess at the moment.