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Problems during the 23:30 Press Preview on Sky News, it appeared to abruptly cut away from the Glass Box to a special report which then ended mid-sentence with a wipe but without a fade on the sound into the adverts before midnight. The Pledge on now as per schedule.
EDIT: Always check twitter before posting here. It seems they couldn’t broadcast the 23:30 papers so a repeat of the previous nights was shown instead before clearly someone thought bad idea and cut to the special report mentioned above. Not sure of exactly what the issue was, but to show the previous nights sounds like one of the worst contingency plans.

Did they perhaps intend to show a repeat of tonight's 22:30 edition but instead it was last night's edition, so pulled it when they realised?

Now showing the Ocean Rescue documentary instead of Sky World News. Something's gone badly wrong this morning!

4am UK and another Ocean Rescure documentary is on.
5am Hotspots on now.

Wonder if Sunrise will go ahead in an hour?

Did Sunrise start at 6am as normal? Seems they must have had some major issues to not manage any live news overnight.

Yep, on the YouTube stream if you are quick.

Sunrise did make it to air - with only Niall Paterson presenting.

Not sure how new it is but noticed a new back half-hour programme during the most recent hour - 'Week In Interviews' - that I hadn't seen before

Thought some might enjoy this piece of nonsense too from yesterday.

"It's getting quite tough to handle."

@SkyNewsTom *tries to* take a VW Beetle for a drive around Sky.

Volkswagen is to stop making the iconic car - read about it here: https://t.co/gKcRAdoLGB pic.twitter.com/hwnqo8WdFA

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 14, 2018

Wouldn’t get your hopes up.

Based on the track record:

they’ll just plonk a sofa in front of the big screen in the glass box.

They’ll accompany it with new flat opening titles, tinny music, stark white / primary colours, and minimal on air branding

Then they’ll cancel the show in two years and do something else

From the graphics, to the glass box, to the Sunrise studio: it’s all been utterly underwhelming.

I can’t believe they’ve not realised that, but presumably it’s what they’ve wanted to do.

Mark Austin talks more about his time at Sky on the R4 Media Show/podcast

Sounds like something they could package up as back half hour filler and also pre-record too.

Anyone know when the changes to Sky's daytime output will come about?

It is supposed to be next Monday (see twitter feed), but I doubt it will be that soon.

Niall has already moved to Sunrise starting today (seemingly doing the same role as Jonathan Samuels used to do - a shame as the weekend format works far better) but I think Mark's role and Kay's new show start next week