Changes to BBC1/ITV1 schedules

Now that the royal wedding and grand national have been moved, what are the likely schedule changes going to be?

Here's BBC1's current schedule for Friday:

11:30 Bargain Hunt Live
12:30 The Royal Wedding
15:40 CBBC
17:25 Neighbours
18:00 BBC News
19:00 Amazon Abyss
19:30 Charles and Camilla (docu)
20:00 EastEnders.

Now I suppose we can guess the Pope's funeral will be broadcast on BBC1, and they'll have to find something to fill for half an hour at 19:30. Does anyone know what time the Pope's funeral is scheduled to take place?

Saturday's existing schedule is:

12:00 News
12:10 Football Focus
13:00 Grandstand incl Grand National at 15:45
16:30 Final Score
17:05 BBC News

We already know the Royal Wedding will be broadcast between 12:00 and 15:30. After 15:30 it's known BBC1 will begin covering the Grand National and Final Score may start later than 4:30. The BBC Sport website says some racing will be on BBC2, where the existing schedule:

12:45 The Sky at Night
13:15 The Flying Gardener
13:30 Talking Movies
13:55 Nation's Favourite Food
14:20 Barefoot In The Park
16:05 Cat Ballou

...could be replaced with something like:

12:45 Football Focus
13:30 Racing
15:35 Talking Movies
16:05 Cat Ballou

Later that day BBC1 could replace Outtake TV at 21:40 with the documentary they were due to show the night before. I wonder if the 22:10 news might be extended and programmes after it delayed?

Onto ITV1 and they have some convenient repeats of Rosemary & Thyme and Midsomer Murders they can quickly shove out of the way on Saturday afternoon.

I'm interested to know how ITV are going to cover the Pope's funeral, as it starts at 9.00am, ie it is within GMTV's hours, one can presume that GMTV will probably end earlier on Friday, maybe 8.30am?

We're presuming that The Pope's funeral will in fact be shown on BBC ONE. I saw a trail earlier in the week saying that Page Turners is on every Monday and Friday at 9.15am, and this was after the funeral of The Pope was announced. Perhaps it will be shown only on BBC News 24.

On BBC One:
The popes funeral is following Breakfast - 9am-11.30am TBC with Huw Edwards - probably just be filler programmes in the afternoon to replace where the wedding was gonna be.

Key moments again at 7.30pm.

The wedding is Saturday noon-3.30pm with Sophie and Dermot now, on BBC One followed by the Grand National coverage.

I don't think ITV are going to show it, since I've read an article today that says This Morning on Friday might be affected by the planned strikes.

Apparently its on 8.50am till 10.30am with Alistair Stewart and James Mates.

The BBC's schedule for Saturday has been announced:

BBC1:
12:00 The Royal Wedding
15:30 The Grand National
17:05 Final Score (was 16:30)
17:30 BBC News (was 17:05)
17:55 Strictly Dance Fever
Just for Laughs at 17:25 has been dropped.

BBC2:
11:30 See Hear (was 12:00)
12:15 Football Focus
13:05 Grandstand
15:30 The Flying Gardener (was 13:15)
15:40 Talking Movies (was 13:30)
16:05 Cat Ballou
Bill's Food at 11:30, The Sky at Night at 12:45, The Nation's Favourite Food at 13:55 and Barefoot in the Park at 14:20 have all been dropped.

On ITV1:
12:40 Local News
12:50 Creature Comforts
13:00 Quincy ME (was 12:45)
14:00 Royal Wedding
15:45 Rosemary and Thyme (was 13:45)
16:45 Local News
Midsomer Murders at 14:45 has been dropped.

On Friday, the only thing that's been added is Cash In The Attic on BBC1 at 14:05. 12:30-14:05 is still TBA, as is the slot on ITV1.

well i guess Neighbours will be back at 1.40pm and the news at 1pm

From RadioTimes.com


6:00am Breakfast
8:40am The Requiem Mass of Pope John Paul II
11:30am BBC News (added)
11:45am Page Turners (was 9.15)
12:30pm Mind Your Own Business (was 11.00)
1:00pm BBC News (extented)
1:40pm Neighbours (was cancelled)
2:05pm Cash in the Attic (added)
2:35pm Murder She Wrote (was cancelled)
3:25pm CBBC: Bodger and Badger (added)

Friday at 19:30 on BBC One will be a programme called "The Funeral of Pope John Paul II"

ITV are showing the funeral from 8.50-11.15, followed by one of their antiques programmes, then The Flintstones is on from 11.45, interupted by the Lunchtime News at 12.30.

Can't recall what's on at 2.05pm, but Corrie is repeated at 2.35pm followed by regional news at 3.05pm then CITV at 3.15pm.

ITV are showing the funeral from 8.50-11.15, followed by one of their antiques programmes, then The Flintstones is on from 11.45, interupted by the Lunchtime News at 12.30.

Can't recall what's on at 2.05pm, but Corrie is repeated at 2.35pm followed by regional news at 3.05pm then CITV at 3.15pm.