BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

BBC News handing over from Beyond 100 Days to Outside Source a little early during a live to Pasadena for the Mars probe landing, with Ros Atkins chipping in with "it's Ros here...".

And now at 19:59 Martine Croxall has taken over...

Oops, the background in Kiev failed and the reporter switched it to a different one.

When you say failed – it looks like the clip simply ran out!

I love the stages Christian's face goes through in those 4 images as he realises what's happening!

Will the News Channel show Teresa Mays appearance at the Liaison Committee in full if it goes past 10am or will it cut to VD?

It was cut for the weather and then Victoria Derbyshire.

...although they did then come back to it after the news at the top of the hour. Could well have done that at the top of any hour, of course.

Lot of black flashes going on in this report on Putin fans in Russia (17:32 or thereabouts). The ticker and the non-standard name graphics (what are we calling those nowadays?) for the report are staying on - in fact that seems to be what's triggering the blacks. Whenever a name appears, it cuts to black for about half a second, and does the same before the name disappears.

Back to the edit suite for this one, I think...

Didn't seem to have been mentioned yet, but Geeta is doing the evening shift on the News Channel, with I think her first time presenting The Papers? I don't ever recall her doing the evening shift, though she has done morning and afternoon on weekends lately.

She's done The Papers before, on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago.

Put the news channel on this morning to find Reeta Chakrabarti presenting a strange feature based off the BBC News app, which appeared awkward and jarring. There was also a preview for Victoria Derbyshire, which was coming from a random, noisy cash and carry in Birmingham.

I just wanted the news...