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The 'Victoria Derbyshire' Programme

Victoria Derbyshire's new daytime show... (January 2015)

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Andrew Founding member
Sounds a bit like when the ITV Lunchtime News went to be an hour long and the extra bit of the programme was filled by GMTV style female skewed items about health and children, and asking for viewers opinions, and that was in the days before Twitter, it's even easier to fill with opinions now.

I would have thought straight rolling news is what you should be doing on a morning as this is when news tends to come in.

The BBC are in a very comfortable position though, they are often so far ahead of anyone else and offering a unique no adverts product that even if they cost cut, reduce the quality and change the programming for the worse, they still stay in the lead.
LL
London Lite Founding member
The 9.15am start time kind of says it all. They're clearly trying to attract viewers switching over at the end of Breakfast's fluffy 45 minutes.


The irony is the NC cuts away from the last 45 mins of Breakfast due to it's fluffy content, now they going to stick on an infotainment show at 9.15am under the premise of cuts!

I'm sure a straight simulcast of the NC on BBC2 between 0915-1100 would save a lot more money than this.
HB
HarryB




Today's line up
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rob Founding member
I'm going to be live-blogging the first programme at TV Live this morning if anyone's interested. Click here to view
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HB
HarryB
With 15 minutes to launch, the 9 o'clock begins with a generic TOTH with Annita.
BB
BBC WORLD 24
Victoria's headline story.... an 8 year old and 6 year old born in the wrong bodies. Is this really the route that the NC is going to do down?
This programme is fine for BBC Two... but the NC should be a rolling news channel
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Londoner
This shouldn't be on the news channel. It's going to make the channel a laughing stock.
NR
NthnRw
It's radio on TV, not sure this is going to work...
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MrTellybox
There's an election campaign going on, and on the News Channel I'm being forced to watch a 15 minute film about transgendered children. This is appalling. The BBC appear to have forgotten that people turn to the channel for news. Rolling news, breaking news, the headlines every 15 minutes.

I know it's early days, the first minutes of the first programme. But this is a terrible start.
DK
DanielK
Seems to be a good idea...

Just not for BBC News.
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HarryB
The animation of the graphics are nice, just the horrid logo is there!
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rob Founding member
A few images (sorry for the quality, they're from my phone)

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