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News 24 Tonight - daily 'best of' show

Weekdays 7pm with Chris Eakin and Jane Hill (September 2005)

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LO
Londoner
Broadcast posted:
BBC News 24 is to launch a 'best of' programme, collating highlights of the corporation's daily news output from across all its TV platforms.

News 24 Tonight, presented by Jane Hill and Chris Eakin, will go out every weeknight between 7 and 8pm. The 60-minute programme, edited by Marek Pruszewicz, will start on 26 September.

It will draw on the One and Six O'clock News bulletins, Breakfast, BBC World and from the BBC's Regional and National newsrooms in the UK.

News 24 editorial director Mark Popescu said: "Viewers will now know exactly where to find a comprehensive round-up of the day's top stories from the bulletins and the best of the BBC's coverage from around the nations and regions."
CA
cat
And we all know why this is happening, don't we.
M
M@ Founding member
No, I don't. Why?
NS
NickyS Founding member
M@ posted:
No, I don't. Why?

This is one of the changes I hinted about in the N24 thread that happen on Monday.
DU
Dunedin
It sounds a bit like a repeats show.

They've had this requirement hanging over them since Lambert to 'increase regional reporting on News 24' which is frankly the most awful thing you could do to a 24 hour news channel.

I suppose this new hour slot will allow them to claim they're putting on reports made by "Back end of nowhere"-Tonight, when I suspect most will originate from World or the national bulletins.

Of course cat's right that this is to do with the imminent relaunch of Sky News, but let's face it....if a viewer made the connection between the two, they'll still probably think that News 24 got there first (since Sky don't relaunch til Oct 10th).

I'm intrigued as to what the other changes on Monday will be though.
R2
r2ro
So is this programme just going to be repeats of reports and interviews from the different bulletins with Chris and Jane in the studio linking it together? It's a good idea but not really suitable for BBC News 24, a news channel which has continuing coverage. Personally I think that this would work better on BBC Two instead of Newsnight.
MA
themagicmonkey
So you think that a collection of repeats cobbled together would be a better show than the most intelligent news programme on the BBC?

How old are you?
MD
mdtauk
With Sky News' Upcoming relaunch its obvious the BBC are trying to improve thier primetime output
JW
JamesWorldNews
It will give you chaps and chappesses a little bit of an insight into the kind of material that the best news channel in the world (BBCW) produces and that I am lucky enough to see every day.

What they actually SHOULD do is present it from the World studio, and just abolish "The World" altogether, and let all of BBC News output see this new programme.

Dream on James..............
MO
Moz
A bad idea in my opinion. I'm totally against trying to make rolling news into distinct programmes. There's absolutely no point. In fact there's a danger of a programme becoming a 'show'. This is news, not entertainment.

Anything which deflects from the actual news insults the intelligence. If you need a gimmick to keep people interested, those people aren't worth it.
HA
harshy Founding member
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only it will have an international emphasis, hopefully different titles and a different aston set other then dark red.
W1
w12
It's been in the pipeline for months, well before any details of the Sky relaunch leaked - so to say it's a pre-emptive strike at Sky is wrong.

It might bring back some memories of UK Today though....

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