All this schedule talk is nonsense considering the BBC have never been afraid to just run the schedule late if live events demand it. Absolutely no need for them to overcomplicate things when they can just run 15-20 mins late.
Well, indeed - and you can hardly say it's vital the news starts on time if the reason it's not going to is because of news earlier in the evening.
On one of those websites which features stories from people who used to work in
VT and presentation, someone mentions the news phoning presentation and demanding that they start at nine o'clock on the dot, and they hd to tell them that they now couldn't do that because the programme before it had started late because of the newsflash they'd just done.
I'm surprised BBC One felt they had the time to air two trailers after the end of the News special (for Strictly and All Together Now). You'd think, knowing they presumably want to get the BBC News at 10 to start as close to 10 as possible, that they just would go straight to The Apprentice afterwards.
But when you run late, the best thing to do if often to keep running late so at least the audience knows what's going on. If you wanted to see the news special and the Ten yesterday, you'd have seen The Apprentice coming on five minutes late so you know BBC1 were running five minutes late and switched on for the news at five past ten. It would have been useless if you'd switched on and it had started earlier because they'd dropped a load of trailers and cut a bit out of The Apprentice.
