The One Show with Adrian Chiles and Nadia Sawalha

BBC to bring Nationwide back - Daily Telegraph

Peter Fincham's enthusiasm for this idea has been reported before, but now we know there will be a month-long trial in August.

am I missing something here?.. if it airs 6:30 - 7:30 five days a week what happens to all the regional news programmes?..

You don't remember what Nationwide was, do you?

sorry no... no idea.. enlighten me..

Nationwide (from Wikipedia)

To be fair, you'd need to be in your mid-20s to know about it, and there's a fair number of young 'uns (myself included) who'll have only seen it on clip shows for its skateboarding ducks, etc.

Thank you for making me feel old.

(wanders off aimlessly humming the Nationwide theme tune)

not old! just.. er.. older.

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thanks.. if they brought this back I take it each regional opt would have to get new titles / name / set etc to be part of the 'nationwide' brand and not regional news programmes in their own right.. how did this work when it was originally on air?.

well I'm 30 ish and never saw it ... (didn't watch much telly til I started working in it though)

I wouldn't have thought so at first, it's only supposed to be a four-week pilot. I guess the changes would happen if it went to a full series. I suppose this explains the half hour gap in the new N24 schedules and possibly why they said that Kaplinsky is currently on the Six (after all, it says they want a Natasha Kaplinsky-style presenter).

The regional programmes all had their own identities in the 1970s/80s. In fact some of the Nationwide national titles featured the names of the regional programmes.