[Spencer]

Wouldn't be that surprising - once you've already got the infrastructure and production teams in place, extending the news is pretty much as close to free television as you can get. If they go down this route, it would easily allow them to reduce their daytime commissioning and Breakfast to 09:30 isn't without precedent (happened for several months in 2004 after Kilroy was axed). An hour-long News at One would also allow them to 'make up' for the slight reduction in UK content on the News channel and, if there were any remaining gaps in the daytime schedule, the team could surely add in a short mid-afternoon bulletin.  Moving it to Salford is a bit of a curveball, though I'd assume it'd come from the new Breakfast/Sport newsroom set - which'd be nice.

I’d be surprised if they didn’t extend Morning Live as well whilst they’re at it, taking advantage of This Morning’s woes. Extending both would allow them to drop a slot occupied by another programme (or programmes).