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You're probably right, actually, I remember Huw being in the News 24 studio but it probably was after the Six, it might have been in the 7pm hour that was simulcast on BBC2 while BBC1 showed 'stEnders and Changing Rooms. As I say, amazing we went nearly four hours without getting a familiar BBC1 face on there, even Gavin Esler wasn't very well-known to the general audience. It's not a problem these days because all the News Channel presenters also appear across BBC News, but it seems bizarre they didn't get a BBC1 face on there quicker.
Jeremy Vine presented Newsnight that night, as he was scheduled to do, but he has said that they actually tried to get Paxman in as the senior presenter to do it instead - but he was on holiday and couldn't get back in time, so Vine did it in the end.
One thing I remember is that there was a very short-lived panel show on C4 at the time called This Week Only, presented by Joe Cornish with Nick Frost and Lauren Laverne as regulars. It was such a low concept show, just swapping jokes about the week's news, and only lasted one series. Anyway, they did do an episode that week... and completely ignored it, and just did jokes about silly surveys and the like, which looked ridiculous, an enormous elephant in the room, and it made for such bizarre viewing. But a few years later I mentioned this on a forum and one of the writers replied, saying they were writing the show when the news broke (which they were told about by Nick Frost, of all people) - I think it might have been recording that night - and they had no idea how they were supposed to cover it, or if C4 wanted them to cover it, so they just carried on with what they were doing.
There were three panel shows running in the week of 7/7, including the first series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Mock The Week, which were both being recorded that night. So few people managed to make it in that they did a compilation of Mock The Week (would have had the same issues as This Week Only in terms of trying to talk around it, probably), and all the cast, crew and audience that arrived for Mock The Week went next door to 8 Out Of 10 Cats. There were loads more rounds in those days so they just did all the other ones that weren't about the news. There was also a crappy short-lived panel show on BBC1 with Anne Robinson called What's The Problem - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2005-07-08#at-21.00 - which was dropped completely.
The OJ verdict was around 6pm, I remember watching it on the Six O'Clock News, and Louise Woodward was on a Monday night in December 1997, I remember reading at the time it got Sky News' biggest ever audience at the time. I remember a BBC1 newsflash after 'stEnders.
The rolling news I most remember is the fuel protests in September 2000, because after the Lunchtime News ITV came back on around 2pm for another hour or so pretty much every afternoon that week, and Nicholas Owen reported throughout from the forecourt of a petrol station from Watford, basically saying over and over again they'd had no deliveries. For a week.
I think it was even later than that when Huw finally popped up, Steve. Huw only appeared for the Six which wasn't simulcast on News 24 as far as I can remember. I think it remained only on BBC1 whilst the News 24 presenter continued on News 24. I think Huw might have done a short stint on News 24 in the evening after he had done the Six. I'm sure I remember him being in N8. Then, of course, they brought in the really big guns by about 8pm when a news special with David Dimbleby went out across the networks, I seem to recall, even on BBC World I think.
You're probably right, actually, I remember Huw being in the News 24 studio but it probably was after the Six, it might have been in the 7pm hour that was simulcast on BBC2 while BBC1 showed 'stEnders and Changing Rooms. As I say, amazing we went nearly four hours without getting a familiar BBC1 face on there, even Gavin Esler wasn't very well-known to the general audience. It's not a problem these days because all the News Channel presenters also appear across BBC News, but it seems bizarre they didn't get a BBC1 face on there quicker.
Jeremy Vine presented Newsnight that night, as he was scheduled to do, but he has said that they actually tried to get Paxman in as the senior presenter to do it instead - but he was on holiday and couldn't get back in time, so Vine did it in the end.
One thing I remember is that there was a very short-lived panel show on C4 at the time called This Week Only, presented by Joe Cornish with Nick Frost and Lauren Laverne as regulars. It was such a low concept show, just swapping jokes about the week's news, and only lasted one series. Anyway, they did do an episode that week... and completely ignored it, and just did jokes about silly surveys and the like, which looked ridiculous, an enormous elephant in the room, and it made for such bizarre viewing. But a few years later I mentioned this on a forum and one of the writers replied, saying they were writing the show when the news broke (which they were told about by Nick Frost, of all people) - I think it might have been recording that night - and they had no idea how they were supposed to cover it, or if C4 wanted them to cover it, so they just carried on with what they were doing.
There were three panel shows running in the week of 7/7, including the first series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Mock The Week, which were both being recorded that night. So few people managed to make it in that they did a compilation of Mock The Week (would have had the same issues as This Week Only in terms of trying to talk around it, probably), and all the cast, crew and audience that arrived for Mock The Week went next door to 8 Out Of 10 Cats. There were loads more rounds in those days so they just did all the other ones that weren't about the news. There was also a crappy short-lived panel show on BBC1 with Anne Robinson called What's The Problem - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2005-07-08#at-21.00 - which was dropped completely.
Going back a bit, does anyone else remember the coverage of a couple of big trials in the US? I vaguely recall my dad watching the outcome of the OJ Simpson trial and I vividly remember the Louise Woodward trial in, I think, 1998. Those are probably two of my earliest memories of US news coverage.
The OJ verdict was around 6pm, I remember watching it on the Six O'Clock News, and Louise Woodward was on a Monday night in December 1997, I remember reading at the time it got Sky News' biggest ever audience at the time. I remember a BBC1 newsflash after 'stEnders.
The rolling news I most remember is the fuel protests in September 2000, because after the Lunchtime News ITV came back on around 2pm for another hour or so pretty much every afternoon that week, and Nicholas Owen reported throughout from the forecourt of a petrol station from Watford, basically saying over and over again they'd had no deliveries. For a week.