03-09-2023, 04:34 PM
(03-09-2023, 03:57 PM)thePineapple Wrote: You're right, but I'm pretty sure Dateline London had a ludicrously small budget (~£75k iirc), and those savings wouldn't be *too* hard to make up if a number of high profile faces took a pay cut.That is true, but I suspect Dateline London was axed for more than budgetary reasons (being basically a rounding error on a spreadsheet). Given the format of the new channel, an extra news discussion programme was probably viewed as superfluous and, in terms of filming, it'd probably have been logistically harder to fit in.