Paris Terror Attacks Coverage

Which only highlights that their earlier coverage was well below what they could deliver.

On BBC One, Pointless has replaced Children In Need highlights at 17:15, to allow for the extended news at 18:00.

Interesting that Newsnight is at 20:00, that means changes to the whole BBC Two schedule. The revised schedule isn't on the BBC website yet, but it's currently showing:

17:30 Flog It
18:30 The Great Pottery Throw Down (missing on BBC Two website)
19:30 Great Continental Railway Journeys
20:30 Dads Army
21:00 QI XL

Seems like a two hour special of Newsnight at 8pm. The NC has changed schedule to two hours of BBC News which will probably be the Newsnight special. BBC Two schedule yet to be altered.

I should have looked a bit closer. The Great Pottery Throw Down is on right now, and Children In Need highlights follow it on BBC Two at 17:20, which is when they would have been on BBC One. I am guessing then Portillo at 18:30 and then Dads Army, or the other way round to take it to 20:00.

Annita McVeigh has mentioned it again on the NC and I've realised the reference to 8pm and 9pm is 8pm London time which is 9pm Paris time. I thought the 20.00 two hours of BBC News could reflect the fact there are no programmes on the half-hour, such as Click, today - however that missing 21.00 is mysterious. It could just be in transition - at the moment on the Wales nation of BBC ONE, we have five minutes of Pointless and then Children in Need Best Bits. Clearly not - they've just not moved the reference to the Best Bits programme yet, which, it now appears (from the other regions), is not being shown.

News wise, there is now an extended BBC ONE bulletin at Six pm, lasting 40 minutes. It's come forward from 6.30pm and looks like they've dropped the CIN "Best Bits", bringing Pointless forward and putting that in its place, in order to show the special news bulletin. I assume that might feature some summary coverage of other news from today besides the main terrible news story. I see someone else above is probably beating me to what I am now posting.

EDIT: From which it now seems the CIN "Highlights" programme has been moved to BBC TWO. (They in turn broke into Jools Holland's programme, with no notice, after under ten minutes last night - although the full programme, including the majority that was never broadcast, is on the I-Player - as it was during the time it should have been on television last night.)

Updated BBC2 schedule online now
18:30 Nature's Wierdest Events
19:00 Great Continental Railway Jouneys
20:00 Newsnight

Well I'm not sure what a programme at 9.25 reaching about 300,000 viewers would really have achieved, or whether it'd have been a sensible use of resources. Every single bulletin since the attacks has been extended.

I feel the 2000s habit of switching to news channels at the drop of a hat (partly, it has to be said, to promote those services) has affected what people expect to see. Prior to the turn of the century you wouldn't have got that level of coverage, and post-DSO it is debatable how useful switching to rolling news is when everyone has access to it.

Oh, Newsnight is only 30 minutes

ITV have had a number of news specials at 9.25am since the closure of the news channel where events warranted it - and this one clearly did. I don't know what they did with this mornings bulletin - as I said my comment was based on what had or hadn't been said here and there was no mention of it being extended. Having the "lunchtime" bulletin at 10.50am on a day like today just highlights how poorly scheduled it is.

The remaining 60 mins of last night's Jools Holland prog, is on BBC 2 tonight at 23:00 hrs (or perhaps it's a different ep (or the same ep) originally scheduled ?)

It's probably the full show. Either they've found a need to edit it down from 65 minutes to 60, or there was a bit of padding in last night's schedule anyway. It was a "highlights" episode anyway.

Agree someone made a very poor call, I hope they make up for it.