18-03-2023, 06:17 PM
(18-03-2023, 12:20 PM)oscillon Wrote:Sorry, I didn’t realise Smerconish was actually live! I was thinking of days gone by when programmes such as Your Money used to air in the slot, and assumed Smerconish was also a pre-record. Either way, the whole arrangement adds up to a bit of a disjointed schedule and isn’t ideal.(18-03-2023, 01:44 AM)interestednovice Wrote: I do not understand the whole “secret extra hour of New Day / This Morning Weekend, branded as Newsroom” though. Why not just have the half-hour recorded programme in the middle of This Morning Weekend? Is it to do with ratings averages or something? There must be a reason, but like so many long-standing things in broadcasting it comes across as odd to the viewer.I think it's for consistency reasons. It would be weird to have CNN This Morning to be finished at 9am or earlier (Sunday) throughout the whole week, but then on Saturday for it to also run from 10am till 11am. By the way, Smerconish, which separates the 10am hour, is an hour-long live program, not a recorded half-hour.
Today marks ten years of The Lead with Jake Tapper being on air (big day of anniversaries), so yesterday he did a special acknowledgement of that fact at the very end of the show.
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Yesterday's 9pm hour, despite being branded as the second hour of AC360, followed the CNN Primetime trope and was focused solely on the single topic of Putin's arrest warrant by the ICC. Most of the guests, however, were remote and not in the studio (which they usually try to achieve to some extent during branded Primetime shows).
BBC Breakfast sometimes airs short editions of Click or Newswatch during a weekend edition, presumably to give the presenters a break as weekend Breakfast is generally longer than weekday, so it wouldn’t be a completely crazy idea to use the same branding “split” with a programme in the middle. I assume CNN managers just don’t want to do that.
British Breakfast TV is a really odd mix. On the one hand, you have quite confrontational “gotcha” interviews as has been said (the kind of thing that sometimes wouldn’t be out of place on Newsnight) but then also really fluffy stories. The BBC have also built an entire programme identity around having a “famous red sofa” and scarcely any other set pieces!