Regional opt out alert BBC One

Dunno the best place to put this, as I did a similar one 18 months ago when the Pope came to town & it ended up being moved from the main forum to here!

Anyway BBC One is slightly more regional than normal this Sunday for one thing or another, & if you're an extended HIGNFY fan, read on.

The BBC One HD/Network schedule is as follows:

1000pm News/Regional News

1025 HIGNFY

1110 Room 101 Extra Storage(repeat)

1150 The Love Letter (Film)

115 Weatherview

120 Empire (2/5)

220 Holby City

320 Antiques Roadshow

420 BBC News

In Wales it's :

1025 Welsh Towns (3 of 4 )

1055 HIGNFY

1140 Room 101

1220 The Love Letter

145 Weatherview

150 Billionaires Behaving Badly - Panorama

220 Holby City

In Northern Ireland it's :

1025 Sunday Politics(Repeat of the regional segment presumbably)

1050 HIGNFY

1135 Graham Norton

1220 Where Music Matters

1225 Countryfile(Signed repeat)

120 Empire (2/5) as network

London - As Network except in place of HIGNFY, there's a London Mayoral Debate presented by Brillo.

West Midlands - As Network except in place of HIGNFY, follow actor David Harewood as he attempts to turn a group of inner city teens into Shakespearean actors in 5 days, 'Macbeth, The Movie Star & Me'.

Any Scottish variations??

Surprisingly no.

I have asked Midlands Today via the Facebook page, whether it's possible to flag on screen that HIGNFY should be available via IPlayer, assuming they won't want to mention that you can get other regions via SKY, but I suppose we will all be taping alternative regions via SKY anyway?

London are also opting out on Wednesday at 7:30 for a programme about Great Ormond Street Hospital: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01flx7j

That's interesting.

Just happened to notice on Sky, that HIGNFY has been reinstated on West Mids, pushing Macbeth back 40 mins or so, dropping Room 101, which would be more logical & returning to Network for 'Love Letters'.

(Think I'll keep BBC Scotland on the planner just in case though!)

I wonder if MT has read my Facebook post & BBC Brum has adjusted the schedule as a result?

(Radio Times is wrong now!)

Now they've gone back to the original schedule on Sunday night. Daft.

Andrew Marr's doing a lot of swivelling in this debate.

Anyone know where it was recorded? Looks like a theatre with a very shiny floor.

(It's repeated on BBC Parliament tomorrow.)

I thought Brillo was doing the London programme?

(I can't watch now as I'm SKY Plussing both Macbeth (from West Mids) & HIGNFY(from Scotland))

Erm, yes, of course, it's Brillo. Got my Sunday morning presenters mixed up.

so a network announcer introduced the programme over a local ident, then a local voice introuduced HIGABMNFY over a network ident...

(Room 101 Extra Storage has been dropped; a change to the schedule above.)

Just checked the beginning of West Mids, & apart from a brief flash of the 'Red Wall Of Death' ident that Network was using, before swopping to local Bikes, opt out 99% ok at Brum.

(Isn't there normally a computer screen in the regions, that lists all the junctions on Network, that the local staff can refer to? I'm assuming there is a miniscule delay between the button press & the technology actually kicking in, which is why you get a flash of Network before swopping to Regional?)

That's naughty. West Midlands couldve done that instead of going with Room 101! Someone at the Mailbox needing to catch the last bus home?