[interestednovice]

It’s a shame we are half askeep in the UK, Washington definitely has a very good set design.

Yes, some of the new channel’s best hours are from Washington. We know that a lot of attention went into Washington before the relaunch, and it shows on-screen.

They are a tad over-reliant on having a panel, but for the most-part they tend to allow the panel to have a nuanced and polite debate (unlike the often mismatched panel on The Context) and/or provide some genuinely interesting context.

It does all just feel slightly odd still that so much attention goes to the US and Singapore when it’s supposed to be “the BBC” but if they can pull up standards in NBH perhaps that won’t be the case quite so much. The reason the US focus is so galling currently is largely because London output has started to look like the poor relation. If that can be rectified, they should be able to make a success of this yet (hopefully, trying to think optimistically).