On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:34 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > Of note - it's just "Newsnight" without the extra capital. > > 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. > I think it's more "BBC News at..." and then a time. There's a bulletin at 1pm, 6pm (with 30 mins of local news at 6.30pm) and 10pm on BBC One. But yes that means that nightly at 10pm (or 10.15pm if ITV1, they're stretching one of their biggest reality shows out) you have "BBC News at Ten" up against "ITV News at Ten." There was a period of time when ITV started shunting around their nightly news broadcast, gaining the pejorative "News at When?", and the BBC shifted its Nine O'Clock News to 10.00pm. That opened up 9.00pm to drama shows that could include "after the watershed" content. Interesting point is that the cumulative biggest rated show on British TV most days is the combined ratings of all the BBC Local news bulletins at 6:30pm. They outperform all the soaps, most major dramas and all but the biggest reality shows. -- 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/CAD_sJGBJwbM8pwrPPMLu9fDMwnZCqoX_ER34LpTUxirCzb0FHw%40mail.gmail.com.
