[thePineapple]

The World is just as disappointing to me as the BBC News channel's schedule - it's very thin on actual reporting (the editions I've seen actually manage less than the BBC) and is incredibly heavy on interviews and particularly panel discussions.

I'm not sure I agree with this. I've watched a few editions of the World Today and it seems to be really quite heavy on international news, with many live interviews with foreign correspondents (or clips from live interviews from the previous hour), reports on global news and some culture at the end.

Yes, Maryam Moshiri breaking a spoon was unnecessary, but I don't think that's a fair representation of the whole program, and whilst there absolutely needs to be more creativity with use of the studio etc, from a news perspective it's successful, in my opinion. It's certainly better than an average hour, and much better in terms of straight news than the Context.

Here's the schedule from (a fairly typical) 7pm hour for UK viewers, to evidence my point:

19:00 – Headlines: Israel-Gaza war/Navalny funeral/Iran elections/UK Eurovision
19:01 – Report on Gaza situation, then live interview from correspondent in Jerusalem
19:08 – Brief clip of Sunak speech, then live interview with correspondent in Westminster
19:12 – Report on Rochdale byelection
19:16 – UK news in brief as world viewers are on break
19:17 – Navalny funeral report, then repeat of interview of Russia author/expert
19:24 – Breaking news of US air drops in Gaza mentioned
19:26 – UK weather
19:30 – Headlines
19:31 – Breaking news of shooting in Clapham mentioned
19:31 – Live interview about weather in Asia with forecaster in studio
19:33 – Repeat of interview with correspondent in Tehran on Iranian elections (a rare thing)
19:37 – Repeat of interview with correspondent in Mexico city on Mexican elections
19:40 – Across the UK segment as world viewers are on break
19:42 – Explainer then report on India elections
19:50 – Live feed of White House press conference on Gaza

Edit: I realise I have quoted a part of DTV's post about Sky, but similar criticisms have too been aimed at the BBC.