"NewsNight," BBC2's long-running 10:30 p.m.-ish newscast considered by some the UK equivalent of the U.S.' "Nightline" in the Koppel era, is being shortened by 10 minutes (when a BBC 40 minutes is equivalent to an American commercial television hour these days) and laying off around half its staff, including its in-show investigative team, to basically become U.S. cable news with panels screaming at each other (I know, British civility, but...)--Deborah Turness, the Beeb's news chief (who I believe did nothing significant when she was running NBC News or MSNBC), says they are increasing their investigative unit, not to mention expanding BBC1's 1 p.m. newscast to an hour (but moving it out of New Broadcasting House to their Salford studios for some reason), but I think the fix is in:
https://www.thewrap.com/bbc-newsnight-layoffs-cuts-cost-reductions-debates/ Of course, "NewsNight"'s most famous moment was years ago when anchor Jeremy Paxman attempted to get a straight answer from a politician by repeating his question again and again for over 10 minutes and failed miserably. And what's with the Beeb giving their newscasts the "News at..." title? Isn't that ITV's trademark? Seems to me ITV should change their openings to have an animated globe flattening out and a theme song full of boops and beeps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5061f387-7b89-4213-a8cc-2accba94d0b7n%40googlegroups.com.
