The 'Victoria Derbyshire' Programme

The weather forecasts at 09:27 and 10:27 have been removed, with Carol still doing the 09:57 forecast, but now in studio B.

So Carol's shift remains 06:00-10:00.

The 10:57 weather is as before - covered by the second morning forecaster.

Target audience negative tweets.

In depth discussion of politicians' relationships with hot dogs, bacon butties and cutlery on #VictoriaLIVE. This is what we want... :)

— Anna (@TGAnnaWade) April 7, 2015

#VictoriaLIVE . Is this a news show or a debate show? Why don't you give Victoria a seat. Oh, and I don't like the white news desk.

— Lily @Honeysuckle63 (@bluebell2009) April 7, 2015

#victorialive Disappointing start to this show. Don't think I'll bother any further.

— Ann Godden (@anngodden) April 7, 2015

It wasn't awful but I don't think it was that great either. The news summaries were spaced too-far apart and they've lost the business bulletins that were present when it was just normal rolling news between 9:15 and 11:00. I also don't like the mishmash between the NC's graphics and the show's own graphics - I think it'd be much nicer if the programme used BBC News graphics on the NC, which would seemingly be possible as I remember that, before the NC moved to Broadcasting House overnights managed the old graphics graphics for viewers in the UK, whilst World used the new graphics.

Also, when this isn't really the kind of show you dip in and out of, is it not a bit weird, especially for viewers on BBC Two, to repeat the same stories an hour later? I know this is quite sensible on the NC, but I can't imagine that viewers on BBC Two who have it on as background noise will appreciate watching what is effectively an hour's worth of content spread to an hour and forty five minutes?

Music's nice though, and I chuckled when Victoria used the 'your calls really do make a difference' line from the end of Crimewatch, with the calls and comments in this context making no real difference and just plugging a gap in the running order.

THAT is incredibly sexist.

I don't think it's awful. It need fine tuning imho. Personally I cannot stand all that studio audience interaction but I understand that it is liked by many given the high ratings for question time etc. Personally I wouldn't have had both an audience and a panel discussion in the same show.

They need to pace things better, the vt intro to the debate at 9.45 seemed to go on forever and the "and finally" Item about the hotdog should have been 30seconds max not over 3 minutes. I'd be interested to see what it's like in 2-3 weeks time.

And you made assumptions about negative tweets being from people associated with this site.

Just saying Mr BBC employee.

They've clearly put a lot of work into this but, to me, it definitely feels like a BBC2 programme being simulcast on the News Channel.

It has such a 'daytime TV' feel to it that it comes across as a cutback to the News Channel's output rather than a big-name boost to it.

That said, if they can tweak the balance to put more focus on actual news coverage, it could work.

Programme opening:

I'm not a BBC employee. I was simply commenting on what i had observed whilst following #VictoriaLive on twitter. Yes whilst there were negative responses from other people from what i observed most of that negativity was coming from people i know to be affiliated with this site. None of this is an assumption.

The only assumption here was the one you made about the target audience for the programme.

From the Victoria Derbyshire piece in the Radio Times this week:

I concede the point.

Anyone who watched today's show could clearly see the show was targeting women. It's no wonder the usual male skewed rolling news viewers clashed with today's revamped mid-morning slot.