[DTV]

Especially these days where content for younger people has been getting shorter & snappier due to diminishing attention span (including myself at 24), I think it would be good to speed up the glacial pace.

I was thinking yesterday that there's actually a sort of weird logic behind the format and some of the presentation changes. When you consider that two of either channel's most successful formats in recent years (especially in terms of social media traction) have been latter-era Outside Source and (Beyond) 100 Days, it makes some sort of sense to try and export those formats - which already work for both audiences - across the schedule.

But the problem is, they've tried to hybridise two very different formats and have ended up with a camel that doesn't really work. You're left with the slowed story pace of both, but without the detailed step-by-step analysis of a good Ros Atkins' explainer or the presenter chemistry to keep things moving of 100 Days.

I also think that it fundamentally ignores that the selling points of both formats (as well as being contradictory) were that they were appointment-to-view programmes that supplemented the rest of the schedule. I do see the logic of wanting to replicate success, but it's that typical TV executive mindset of 'that works, so let's make everything that', ignoring the fact that the lesson is almost always 'that only worked because not everything was that'.

There's a place for discussion, there's a place for actually going in-depth on a few stories, but it just isn't all day, everyday. A lot of the time, what you want from a news channel is just the news - simply, concisely and visually explained.