Excellent reporting from Lyse Doucet in Damascus. Completely professional faced with the sorts of damage and death in the country. She really is first-class. Great to see her on domestic TV as well, since we only ever do when she is out in the field.
Provisional schedules for the diamond jubilee weekend posted on Digital Spy Forum's ratings thread show the folllowing of note:
A full length (30 mins) BBC News at 1 on the Sunday
60 minutes of news at 5.30pm on the Monday (I'd guess including regional news)
On the Tuesday Diamond Jubilee coverage starts at 9.15am, so probably a normal Tuesday length Breakfast
And with Jubilee highlights at 10,.35pm on the Tuesday, would seem like a normal length BBC News at 10 that night
Tonight's Early Evening Weekend News is ten minutes at 5.40 but in Scotland where football causes the schedule to differ the news is twenty minutes at 6.00. Unusual. Normally when the bulletins are different times the duration is the same.
Tonight's Early Evening Weekend News is ten minutes at 5.40 but in Scotland where football causes the schedule to differ the news is twenty minutes at 6.00. Unusual. Normally when the bulletins are different times the duration is the same.
They can may do a slightly different focus to the bulletin as it is for Scotland. More time maybe on the football result today.
Ooh very nice. Viewers in Scotland got Kate Silverton all to ourselves. The Cup Final game was the lead on the sport part of the main bulletin and she gave a nod to us "as you'll have seen", and then introduced the local news with "Now on BBC One Scotland, Reporting Scotland with Gillian Smart" rather than the usual "here's the news where you are".
Ooh very nice. Viewers in Scotland got Kate Silverton all to ourselves. The Cup Final game was the lead on the sport part of the main bulletin and she gave a nod to us "as you'll have seen", and then introduced the local news with "Now on BBC One Scotland, Reporting Scotland with Gillian Smart" rather than the usual "here's the news where you are".
Ooh very nice. Viewers in Scotland got Kate Silverton all to ourselves. The Cup Final game was the lead on the sport part of the main bulletin and she gave a nod to us "as you'll have seen", and then introduced the local news with "Now on BBC One Scotland, Reporting Scotland with Gillian Smart" rather than the usual "here's the news where you are".
I liked it!
Was it not on the BBC News Channel?
Yes. But as I expectd, they gave a Scottish focus to the sport.
Provisional schedules for the diamond jubilee weekend posted on Digital Spy Forum's ratings thread show the folllowing of note:
A full length (30 mins) BBC News at 1 on the Sunday
60 minutes of news at 5.30pm on the Monday (I'd guess including regional news)
On the Tuesday Diamond Jubilee coverage starts at 9.15am, so probably a normal Tuesday length Breakfast
And with Jubilee highlights at 10,.35pm on the Tuesday, would seem like a normal length BBC News at 10 that night
Radio times website has the Formula 1 down instead for Sunday at 1pm but Andrew Marr is on for 2 hours that day (9-11).
