The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Thread

Why to Calendar not use a proper background?

I believe it is only used on the pan-regional segments of the 6PM show. The sub-regional parts have local backdrops.

Thanks Andrew

It looks even more silly on the pic than when on TV I reckon.

The interesting thing there: the multi-viewer was ITV Central's, hence the Central Cake logo - it was made by the ITV Regional News graphics hub in Birmingham

Are any of these ITV regional news programmes available to download anywhere like they used to have years ago?

I can watch them all ok sky but only if I watch there and then. I can't record them

It'll be down to copyright issues. Programmes use alot of outside footage like Pathe and it'll be restricted to broadcast only. Same with sports access rights. ITV does not have the resources to edit a web version for a small number of viewers.

Inside Out's Flood Special is being shown nationally on the NC on Friday at 19.30 and then repeated as back half-hour filler over the weekend.

Think this is the first nationwide Inside Out Flood Special since this special in 2007 which was broadcast live with Nick Owen and Christa Ackroyd from The Mailbox in Birmingham.

So not only is it being used as an economy measure to fill the BBC's 'English Regional Docs' quota for airtime
(by making a national regional programme !) but also as padding for the News Channel.

I realise all this is forced on the BBC, but I do wish they'd grow a pair, and announce they are having to perform these money saving tricks because of the cuts, rather than pretending it's all part of 'normality'

And what if cost-cutting isn't the reason for this?

What possible use, or public service, is cobbling together all the footage from the last few weeks of flooding and damage, into a 30 min programme ? It's not news any more, and it won't contain anything of 'depth'. It's just something that can be chuned out easily, and cheaply.
I predict Robert Hall and/or Jon Kay stood pointlessly outside someone's ruined dwelling telling us how awful it all is, while some EA robot and/or hopeless politician will promise everything will be better in the future (without of course discussing any individual cases)

I'm not saying the floods shouldn't be the subject of a TV programme, far from it, there was an excellent BBC 2 doc a few months ago, looking at the aftermath of the 2014 floods.

Tonight's edition won't be nationwide (on BBC One anyway), we are getting our normal Inside Out in the West Midlands. HD is showing the South West version.