The Andrew Marr show

Does it go off air for the summer or do other people sometimes present it? I've lost track. There was a period years ago when we had News24 Sunday over the summer.

Usually off for 6-8 weeks, although depending how long this leadership stuff runs into late July/ early August, that break could be reduced.

No they haven't. Not only does the Nine not exist at weekends but BBC2 has never had any news channel simulcast of any kind at weekends.

Well, not since the days of Weekend 24 I think.

Wasn’t News 24 Sunday before The Andrew Marr Show? I have a vague memory of it being on in the run up to something new starting.

Surely all politics-based programmes such as Marr don't run during periods of the year when Parliament is in recess?

I'm sure that when Marr was still in the 9am hour slot, it's summer replacement was an NC simulcast hour presented by the likes of Nicholas Owen (or whoever happened to be on shift).

It would include elements such as a newspaper review, making it vaguely Marr-like. Dunno whether a "standard" NC hour (on a Sunday morning, at least) includes such things all year anyway, or if this sort of thing is only adopted for when it's serving as Marr-replacement.

The news paper review is on every Sunday morning. I believe the summer replacement for Marr began with being a special bulletin in a more similar format by Peter Sissons, but yes for many years the summer replacement has been a standard news channel bulletin that for a number of years was presented by Nicholas Owen as part of his scheduled NC shift, more recently the bulletin has been covered by whoever is on the news channel that morning so has gone through stages of Maxine Mawhinney, Gavin Esler and is currently usually Ben Brown.

Surely it would make sense to extend Breakfast on Sundays to match the Saturday run-time? Then, when needed, it could be simulcast on BBC One until 10.

I seem to remember it ran for about 6-8 weeks in the summer from 2005-2007, presented by Peter Sissons with one of the Breakfast presenters doing the news summaries, similar to the Marr setup.

I watched a couple of Sundays ago and they did the Paper review on the News Channel simulcast and then when Andrew Marr started they did spent another 15 minutes reviewing the papers again. Doesn't make sense.
Move Marr back to 9am and leave it there all the time.

My guess is that the move of Marr to 1000-1100 is a way of stretching the ratings, and helping with the BBC One Sunday morning channel budget. From memory the News 24 0900-1000 hour gets pretty decent figures, and Marr has carried its audience forward an hour, so they now have a better share across Sunday morning. It also leaves the channel with an hour less of general programmes (which will probably rate lower) to commission and pay for too...

Yes, News 24 Sunday was the programme that ran in the summer of 2005 between Breakfast With Frost ending and Sunday AM, as it was initially called, beginning. It was presented by Peter Sissons from the News 24 studio and included interviews and a paper review, certainly more of a programme than just an hour of news. It also ran in the summers of 2006 and 2007 while Andrew Marr was on holiday, but it struck me as a bit odd in that it was simulcast on News 24 but Andrew Marr wasn't, and I didn't know why they didn't just carry on The Andrew Marr Show but presented by Peter Sissons - which is what they then did.

For a few months in 2003 there was also a short-lived politics strand on Saturday mornings on BBC2. This was the result of the same review of the Beeb's political output that saw Westminster Live and On The Record replaced by Daily Politics and The Politics Show, and introduced This Week. One other aspect was an attempt to launch a political programme aimed at younger audiences, so two short-lived series - The Sharp End with Clive Anderson https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/2003-10-04#at-9.15 and Weekend with Rod Liddle and Kate Silverton https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/2003-05-10#at-9.00 (I know it seems bizarre that Liddle was considered a draw for young people, but it was a while back) - ran on Saturday mornings on BBC2 that were supposed to be a bit more irreverent. But nobody watched either so that experiment was swiftly dropped.

There was also another ill-advised venture on Saturday mornings in the summer of 2004 called In The Know which was simulcast on BBC1 and News 24 and was a live sports magazine with John Inverdale and Louise Minchin, mixed with the usual News 24 hour, which was a bit of a disaster - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2004-06-12#at-9.30