BBC FOUR DOGless?

BBC4's DOG seems to have ran away tonight.
Is this a c*ck up or is there a trial going on?
BBC THREE's mut is in tact so it would be strange if FOUR's has gone walkies.

I'd say it was deliberately taken off because it was a film-style programme. But I'd say a mistake was more likely.

BBC Four always remove the DOG during, what they class as, serious programmes.

Well which one is it going to be? You've contradicted yourself there.

BBC Four's DOG comes and goes as it pleases. Sometimes it doesn't appear on one run of a programme at 8pm yet appears on the same programme repeated at 3am, and vice-versa. The official policy is to get shot of it during serious programming, which is BBC Four speak for "showing the DOG during programming for non-highbrow folk", apparently.

BBC Three's DOG on the other hand sits on every programme going, passes on the odd film, grows, shrinks, adds new bits (such as "brand new"), becomes more opaque and less opaque on a virtually daily basis and generally shows signs of BBC Three not having a clue whether they want it or not.

Thanks for the replies but i forgot to mention this was during Knowing me Knowing you...WAP hardly serious and the next program was the league of gentlemen another comedy program and it still wasnt there. It was probably a mistake

And why did last night's LOG have a laughter track, I'm sure the previous showings haven't ?

Series 1 and 2 both had laughter tracks. The Christmas Special and Series 3 didn't.

Films, drama, plays and music performance all usually qualify for DOG-free status on BBC Four. Comedy programmes, including things like Charlie Brooker and QI, also qualified for quite some time until last year when it seemed to start reappearing. Last week's Alan Partridge did go out with a DOG, so it seems these days they really can't make up their minds...

The other night, the left the DOG off for the Parky repeat, but then put it back on the World About Us repeat. It's really quite sporadic (my brother's spelling, not mine) sometimes.

Sorry about that, I changed my mind about what I was going to say, but didn't change it properly.