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Victoria Derbyshire (the programme) - now with added Reith

Split from BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards (March 2019)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
This single tweet sums up the issues VD has as a linear show.



Female, target audience, yet never gets to see the programme live. There's clearly an audience for it, but they consume it differently.

When the live audience is stereotypically older or what they have left is watching This Morning or Jeremy Vine, it wasn't going to be a viable proposition in its current form.
BM
BM11



I doubt the BBC expected such controversy.
ST
Stuart
I think it's quite shocking that she says she only found out about her programme being cancelled by reading it in the Times. Shocked

That's really on a par with being "dumped by text message".
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LL
London Lite Founding member
The format would work well on Channel 4. The demos are similar to Channel 4 News, but brings with them an underserved audience which meets C4's brief. I'd urge them if they ever took on Victoria to schedule it at a time when those viewers will have bums on seats rather than at 10am.

What the current events do show is that you can be the darling of daytime BBC news one minute, but if the format becomes uneconomical, you're the last to find out.
NE
News96
BM11 posted:



I doubt the BBC expected such controversy.


They should have seen this coming the moment it was reduced to an hour!
JW
JamesWorldNews
To read of one’s fate in the newspapers before hearing it from your management is not really on! Regardless of our tv Junkie opinions on VD’s programme and content, there’s no denying that such treatment is shoddy.

I read another BBC presenter’s reaction to this, which went along the lines of “I’m not sure I feel that I belong at the BBC any longer.....”, or words to that effect.
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RN
Rolling News
I'm not a fan but it's disgusting that as the host she had to find out via a newspaper. You would have thought she would be the first to be told by her BBC bosses.
OM
Omnipresent
Not excusing it but the BBC has always leaked like a sieve.

It was far worse years ago when The Guardian had a substantial media team and the BBC News Channel would have to turn to Matt Wells to report what was happening during a BBC controversy.
Last edited by Omnipresent on 23 January 2020 2:54pm
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WH
Whataday Founding member
I'm guessing she "knew" but wasn't told officially before it appeared in The Times.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Fran Unsworth comments.

Quote:
Unsworth said the show's "award-winning, distinctive journalism" was "exactly the type of journalism we need to continue".

Some of the programme's journalism roles would be retained, she said, while Derbyshire will take "a wider role across our broadcast and digital output".

The presenter will also "continue to lead on some of the high-profile audience events and original stories she has championed so effectively in recent years", Unsworth pledged.

She explained: "However, audience behaviours are changing. Linear television viewing is declining, and as we progress with our £80m savings target, it is no longer cost-effective to continue producing the programme on television."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51225087
JO
Jonwo
TCOTV posted:
I guess the show is seen as a factual news show but there is no reason why the show can’t drop part of the news and be a factual magazine show and move it exclusively to BBC One and iPlayer. Like straight after breakfast 9:15 - 10am. That way the show continues but comes out of the daytime budget rather than the news and would free up the BBC News Channel. I guess the only problem then would be the daytime budget.


BBC One wouldn’t want it given how badly it did on BBC Two,
LL
London Lite Founding member
Jonwo posted:
TCOTV posted:
I guess the show is seen as a factual news show but there is no reason why the show can’t drop part of the news and be a factual magazine show and move it exclusively to BBC One and iPlayer. Like straight after breakfast 9:15 - 10am. That way the show continues but comes out of the daytime budget rather than the news and would free up the BBC News Channel. I guess the only problem then would be the daytime budget.


BBC One wouldn’t want it given how badly it did on BBC Two,


Plus BBC One skews older in the mornings. It'd jar just as much as it does on the NC.

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