Brexit Dramarama

German Tagesschau having some Bercow fun .....

Order! Order! Order! pic.twitter.com/WjvKZWGTPu

— tagesschau (@tagesschau) January 16, 2019

and Lineker responds to Mosey on the news quandary last night ...

Interesting that this is still considered important. Personally I don’t have strong feelings either way but thought you’d like to know that 600K switched to BBC2 at 10 for the news. By 10.10 a million came back to BBC1. Football peaked at 4.6 for pens. 2m more than ensuing news. https://t.co/geZtFbzHae

— Gary Lineker 💙 (@GaryLineker) January 17, 2019

I'm with Lineker on this. Everyone watching BBC 1 at 21:55 was there to watch the football. Anyone switching on BBC 1 at that point to want to see the news, will have seen/heard the notices, and switched to BBC 2 or the NC, and the same for those not committed to the football. It's called choice.

What Mosey is really getting at, is ITV had the statement on their primary channel, but the BBC didn't.

Think ITV2 viewers would've been slightly shocked if they'd tuned in and seen Theresa May appearing.

The highest rating of any of the three ‘Ten’s last night was the ITV News at Ten

On such a big news night you’d usually expect BBC News to maybe be 2m ahead

Well, even without any of the Brexit factors, the football still will have gone into extra time, and there still wouldn't have been a suitable point to perform an orderly handover. Perhaps there might have been a handover to allow the news on 1 at 22:05, but there still would have been a flow towards ITV for their news
at 22:00.

If the Beeb really are that worried about ratings for the main news, the football (at least the second half) should have been originally scheduled ( i.e printed in Radio Times etc) for BBC 2

And that doesn't matter - the BBC beat them 3:1 the night before.

Anyway, thanks to Prince Phillip for providing a distraction.

So the BBC News lost viewers due to the messing about last night, and ITV gained viewers. I don’t see how that is an invalid comment.

The fact you're (still) talking about the scheduling and not the statement shows the right call was made.

The BBC made a call based on the majority of their viewers, not on a few people whinging on an online television platform, and exactly the same decision as they've almost always made when it comes to live overrunning sport

Yes, that’s the whole point. The BBC clearly shot itself in the foot if more people watched ITV News! That hardly ever happens.

Not really. Match of the Day beat ITV News at Ten during the 10-10:30pm slot with over 4m viewers.

Of course the delayed BBC News at Ten at 10:35 got fewer viewers than it would in its actual slot but I doubt anyone at the BBC is losing any sleep over it.

And the footballs ratings went up throughout the period. For a couple of run of the mill teams it turned into a compelling cup tie.