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Reruns of the daytime dramas perhaps - over 100 episodes of Father Brown which they could rerun more than once I suspect, alongside their other daytime drama and new episodes.

That said there does seem to have been less daytime drama this year than previously.

I fear that what will end up having, especially the long lead time to the end of Doctors, is the slot ceases to be drama and becomes low cost repeats. As you say there has been a reduction this year in drama in that slot and it looks like the second programme to share the old Holby City slot, which was supposed to be an outside London commission, is likely to never materialise.