News at Ten - Weeknights on ITV1

Thought NaT was quite good tonight - lots of international content.

And an extended running time too.

I think 'quite good' is a bit of an understatement. One of the best programmes I've seen. Extraordinary footage from China - neither Sky nor the BBC have been even close. And a report from inside Burma too. Brilliant stuff.

The report from China was outstanding. It completely brought home the sheer horror of the earthquake like nothing I've seen anywhere else.

Clearly they owed a lot to the man who was videoing the immediate aftermath, but full credit to ITN for obtaining the footage and for packaging it so well.

Yet again, ITN manage to get hold of exclusive footage over the BBC and Sky. They really don't get the credit they deserve. An outstanding News at Ten last night.

Channel 4 News last night had the ITV footage playing over the opening sequence and Jon Snow referred to 'our colleagues at ITV News at Ten' in his intro to their lead story.

Interesting they let C4 have it first, but probably a deliberate tactic to try and attract the more high brow news audience to News at Ten later in the evening.

I've not seen the figures yet, but I would guess NaT probably inherited a decent sized audience last night from the much publicised Duchess In Hull programme. Probably a good night to run such a strong report.

If I'm up I usually watch the BBC News at Ten on a Friday when ITN doesn't have it on, but last night I tuned to The NAT and although it's not my choice usually Bill Neely's report amongst the other pieces were exceptional. A such moving image that made me feel guilty going to bed in comforrt last night.

Well also they had used some of the footage already on the Evening News I suppose.. The video they used on 4 was branded NaT though.

Bill Neely's written this article about it

http://www.itv.com/News/newsspecial/Beichuanreport/default.html

2.9 Million, 16% Audience share for NaT, quite good ratings.

If it has a strong lead in then it does get good ratings, and is getting more than what News at 10:30 got and any individual 10-10.30 programme got really.

Was it me or was Trevor looking at the wrong camera throughout the whole coming-up sequence before the break. He was looking at his single presenter shot and not the main double shot. I noticed they were cut off mid-way through the zooming in on the News at Ten panel. Following the break the screen was black for a few seconds longer than normal. Somebody get the timings wrong?