BBC Two breakdown - The Family Brain Games

They're two different things. One is making a change to the schedule, if there's a newsflash then that's put into the schedule on the automation just like a any other news bulletin would be. The directors make changes frequently throughout the day, they never don't have 'control'.


Bringing up a breakdown slide is something that's needed to be done suddenly, and sometimes as a result of the system that normally puts things to air failing.

The way round it is a way to cut from whatever is faulty to an alternative downstream of the computer, but that's an added complication and presumably not an option with their system. Such a thing can itself cause cock ups too

This was brought up on POV today (right at the end) - official response from the BBC was that it was a 'playout issue'.

I noticed the show was on Celebrity Gogglebox on Friday too - no mention of the breakdown there but I assumed that they didn't watch the shows live anyway!

Imagine that. Celebrity Gogglebox reaction to BBC Two Breakdown.

I think they record the Celeb versions on Mondays and I believe they get advanced copies of programmes from some shows.

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