Good Evening Britain?

I'm not sure that's arguable from a core scheduling strategy.


The BBC 1830 News hour is a ratings juggernaut - it is often the most watched news slot of the day. Putting something droppable (i.e. something that is self-contained and not particularly good) in the slot that inherits that audience is probably not a great move - particularly when you are already trying to avoid a ratings cliff-drop caused by switchover to Emmerdale.

Is The One Show itself not droppable enough?

Yes - and that has happened in the past in Scotland when Reporting Scotland has extended to an hour (such as during the run-up to the Independence Referendum).

I suspect the Good Evening Britain was a throwaway line in a bigger interview which the reporter/sub just picked up and developed. As a "wouldn't this be nice?" as opposed to a considered idea. Certainly, while ITV is doing perfectly well in the afternoon/early evening slot as it stands there's no reason to change.

On the logic that it happens in the US: a lot of other things happen in the US that don't work here. Late-night chat shows and, in fact, the original concept of Good Morning Britain (before Piers Morgan came in and it became personality-led). The US has a bigger audience to target, states which are equivalent to the size of Britain, so it's more viable to do stuff like local TV and local news because if you get x% of 35 million, say, that's going to be bigger than x% of five million.

As it stands, short of the likes of the long-debated Scottish Six, the current set-up is the best way of doing it. Some regions struggle to fill half an hour, London has never really quite worked out what to do with its local news, and The One Show can always be dropped or crashed into by those who need the extra time if needs be.

There is no suspect about it, though people here took it far further than the initial report.

It led to an interesting debate about the possibility of such an idea though. So not all bad.

Its generated some debate

There’s no way ITV would give up more prime time scheduling for another news program. Coronation Street & Emmedale is to precious to them and brings in decent ratings. Plus if you were to clash in anyway with Eastenders it would all go down hill on terms of ratings. The only way it would work is one episode on Tuesdays 7.30pm-9pm? Here’s how the scheduling would look

5pm: The Chase
6pm: Local News
6.30pm: ITV News
7pm: Emmerdale
7.30pm: Good Evening Britain
9pm: Last Laugh In Vegas

That wouldn't work either because of Holby City.

Yeah the whole 4m a week who watch that.....

It should be. from a great height.

Ooh sass.