I'm not sure how I feel about this. I love Brexitcast and never miss an episode but I always feel there are things they get away with more because it's a podcast. It feels more like an exclusive club, and I'm not sure how that'll translate to TV full time.
Having said that - just to completely contradict myself - This Week feels a bit like that too.
Completely uninformed speculation alert: I wouldn't be too shocked to see a TV version of Brexitcast (presumably renamed!) filling the gap. It's a broadly tonally similar production (but perhaps with more enthusiasm and less cynicism) which skews significantly younger. The Politics Live "takeovers" show that there's some desire to try it out on TV.
Worth noting that Chris and Adam from Brexitcast did the Euro Election special on R4 and 5 Live recently with inserts from Katya and Laura. A possible dummy run for them covering By-Election specials currently done under the This Week brand?
So if and when Brexit happens, does it need renaming like Beyond 100 Days?
Recently Chris and Adam were interviewed for the Radio Today Programme podcast and Chris mentioned that he believed the format will continue as a podcast if and when Brexit comes to it's final conclusion.
The format as a podcast is superb. I can't see it working trying to transpose it to TV. Quite why the BBC cancelled This Week is somewhat of a conundrum to me.
An actual TV programme on actual TV will surely need higher production values than a podcast that is filmed. Therefore surely there will be hardly any saving compared to This Week (which is hardly high budget)
