BBC One 2015

It's ridiculous. Wall-E would have got, at most, about 1m viewers in that dead slot. If the BBC had stuck with its simulcast news coverage right up to the moment of the hospital exit, they could have steadily built up their audience rather than sending almost 5m to itv.

I wonder if it was the potential of upset children and angry parents. If it was something a little less child-centric they might get away with it. But then I guess that doesn't support the argument of showing an episode of The One Show with no new content whatsoever.

If people wanted to watch the BBC's coverage of a closed door for a couple of hours, they could easily do so. ITV don't have a news channel to shunt such paint-dryingly-dull coverage to, so have little option other than to interrupt normal programming.

We should be applauding the BBC for actually remembering they do have other outlets and not dropping the schedules at the first opportunity.

Well, this made a bit more sense than last time, the One Show clip show was an obvious thing to abandon but they were an hour into WALL-E which is, as you say, a kids' film (my two year old niece loves it) and abandoning it at that point would have baffled and bored the child audience. It had more than a million viewers as well. There is actually a precedent, kind of, which was the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which broke when BBC1 were ten minutes from the end of Ben Hur, having been showing it for three hours. It would have been a massive annoyance to the audience to stop the film then, so they did the newsflash on BBC2.

Regarding the post on the previous page, they went back to Saturday Kitchen after announcing the birth, as there was nothing else at that point to say.

Hello, 1997?



A very brief trail shown just before Wallace & Gromit tonight, with the programme title/time fading in.

Followed by a programme in 4:3, proving that you don't need to crop everything

I hope I'm not alone in saying I really quite like the 1997 style. Considering how things always seem out of proportion on the BBC's trails, something like and simple is a relief to see.

And another - but inconsistent with the one above

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They're using the same format on the "Shark" trails too. Looks great. It would look even better (and more of a modern update) if they made the swirl roll animation include the reveal of the programme name and time too.

Hope it becomes the norm, the channel badly needs a break from the 11 year run of overbearing red.

I notice BBC One HD has its regular "Programming will resume here in x minutes" holding screen at 6:30pm tonight. I'm sure it's previously shown either filler, trailers, padding, etc rather than a 26 minutes countdown? Or am I dreaming things again?

Nice looking. I'm sure Cardiff, Glasgow and Belfast had fun squeezing their region name into that tiny gap. I've not seen the Northern Ireland version yet but I'm sure it looks a bit of a mess.

I think you get the holding slide for a number of minutes, then the barker starts, usually.