Strange presentation cock-up at the end of The Papers at around 11.50pm tonight. The programme ended and Sportsday started. The camera was focused on the presenter who immediately burst out laughing, head in her hands, unable to control herself. She then sat there, talking to the gallery with the sound down, shrugging her shoulders, seemingly unaware she was live on air, smiling away, sharing some jokes to the crew?? After about 30-40 seconds of this chaos, there was a freeze frame of the opening titles again, before switching back to the main newsroom, who then lost the VT to the Strasbourg incident tonight and Theresa May also. No apology for the laughter earlier.
Strange presentation cock-up at the end of The Papers at around 11.50pm tonight. The programme ended and Sportsday started. The camera was focused on the presenter who immediately burst out laughing, head in her hands, unable to control herself. She then sat there, talking to the gallery with the sound down, shrugging her shoulders, seemingly unaware she was live on air, smiling away, sharing some jokes to the crew?? After about 30-40 seconds of this chaos, there was a freeze frame of the opening titles again, before switching back to the main newsroom, who then lost the VT to the Strasbourg incident tonight and Theresa May also. No apology for the laughter earlier.
Presenter clearly forgot the name of her guest expert (Dr. Joseph Browning) just now, hesitantly introducing him as "Joseph..." and leaving it at that. Oop.
The clock on one of the screens behind the Sport presenter read something like 22:57, so presumably a first take or something pre-recorded in the previous hour? Bit of an odd one as wasn't acknowledged, you heard the presenter say 'what I am saying?' before the picture cut back to him before trying to introduce some pictures from Strasbourg (which they didn't have), followed by an almost One Show-esque gear change to a VT about polar bears (or somesuch)! After the VT an apology for the confusion following the cut back from the failed sport bulletin, but not for the dodgy bulletin itself.
Rounded off, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, with a live weather forecast - is there any rhyme or reason as to when the forecast is live and when it's prerecorded? From what I've seen this evening the majority were pre-recorded, including the one before Beyond 100 Days which they had to cut off mid-flow as they'd gone to it too late to air it in its entirety before the TOTH, and due to simulcasting WN they had to go to the TOTH exactly.
The Sportsday recording was obviously the wrong one that was loaded (that segment is recorded just around the News at Ten and played back later, due to there being no hourly sports bulletin between 11pm and simulcast of World News), but it was highly amusing to see that happen.
Also, no Newsday simulcast, just a generic BBC World News bulletin, did they lose Singapore for some reason or was it cancelled because of reasons?
Rounded off, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, with a live weather forecast - is there any rhyme or reason as to when the forecast is live and when it's prerecorded? From what I've seen this evening the majority were pre-recorded, including the one before Beyond 100 Days which they had to cut off mid-flow as they'd gone to it too late to air it in its entirety before the TOTH, and due to simulcasting WN they had to go to the TOTH exactly.
The weather bulletins which are live are all of those in the morning, the 12.30pm bulletin (this varies, likely depends on presenter availability), the 2pm, 2.30pm and 4.30pm bulletins (with the 2.30/4.30 being in Afternoon Live), the two bulletins in News at Five, the national bulletins of 1pm/6pm, alongside the 9pm and midnight bulletins (presumably because these throw to a World News simulcast).
The weekend weather bulletins is varied, but usually is live in the afternoon shifts. Every other time not mentioned is often-precorded, but some of the live broadcast times mentioned can be pre-recorded if needed.
After the VT the confusion following the cut back from the failed sport bulletin, but not for the dodgy bulletin itself.
[...an apology for...]?
It'll blame that on it being time for bed...
Interesting that World has gone for a normal World News branded bulletin rather than Newsday, in order to provide rolling coverage of the Strasbourg attack. Bit of a role reversal here as usually when the NC hands over to World at midnight you often go from the NC rolling with a story to World News barely giving it a passing mention. Tonight, it's the other way round as the NC had been airing The Papers and Sportsday normally, and even though the Strasbourg news made some of the front pages it was only mentioned briefly.
After the VT the confusion following the cut back from the failed sport bulletin, but not for the dodgy bulletin itself.
[...an apology for...]?
It'll blame that on it being time for bed...
Interesting that World has gone for a normal World News branded bulletin rather than Newsday, in order to provide rolling coverage of the Strasbourg attack. Bit of a role reversal here as usually when the NC hands over to World at midnight you often go from the NC rolling with a story to World News barely giving it a passing mention. Tonight, it's the other way round as the NC had been airing The Papers and Sportsday normally, and even though the Strasbourg news made some of the front pages it was only mentioned briefly.
Its certainly strange that they consider the news serious enough to dump the Newsday format but not serious enough to dump prerecorded back half hours.
Here's the failed Sportsday from earlier through to the apology and handover to the weather.
Looks like the wrong pre-rec was played down the line by Salford who then cued up the correct one but the gallery at NBH then decided to pull it completely or that they wouldn't have time for it so shelved it, and in the confusion Shaun thought they were returing to him for some breaking news.
The best bit is Shaun rushing through the intro to the Antarctica report!
I guess we don't normally notice that the midnight weather is live because it usually follows the Sportsday closing titles.
