BBC One 2015

No, you didn't hear correctly, there was one episode of Casualty, as billed.

HOWEVER, what did end up happening was Casualty coming on five minutes early and, because it was for some reason scheduled in a 55 minute slot when it was fifty minutes as usual, everything after it came on ten minutes early! I have no idea how this managed to happen, and it shouldn't happen, the first rule of television is surely not to start progarmmes early.

For some reason Sue wrapped up the Wimbledon coverage really quickly, interrupting John McEnroe to say goodbye. I don't know if this was due to some kind of miscommunication and BBC Sport thought they had to get off earlier than they did, or because for some reason they didn't want Wimbledon 2Day on at the same time if only for five minutes (seemingly it's not OK for that to start early, though everything else can). Even then, you'd assume they would have asked the lottery to carry on for a bit or showed a load of trailers, like they did when they had that phone vote balls up on Strictly a few years back and they had to cancel the dance-off. But no, everything came on early.

I don't know why, but it shouldn't be happening. It's simply bad manners. Viewers can accept programmes are running late, they can't understand why they're running early.

What aired last night then on BBC One? Did Wimbledon finish on One only to come back when Andy was playing or did they not show anything scheduled before the lottery? If the latter, then the news should have been shown, then the lottery, then Casualty, which would have started 10 minutes late and not 10 minutes early as it did.

The news was moved to 5pm before returning to Wimbledon. Prized Apart was dropped and the lottery quiz was replaced with just the draws, though as Steve said the BBC seemed to rush Wimbledon off air even though they clearly had a few minutes to play with.

I guess Coast snippets aren't good enough for BBC1. This is where the likes of Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes used to come in useful - the BBC didn't used to think twice about slipping them into the schedules when they had a few minutes that needed filling.

They postponed Prized Apart until next Saturday, then Who Dares Win was't show but the National Lottery was, then the whole schedule was 5 mins early so Casualty played at 8:45 instead of 8:50

Then the lotto come off at 20.44? and we had 3mins of trails.

While everything was 5 minutes early on BBC1, everything on BBC2 was 5 minutes late as Wimbledon 2Day went out at 20:35 as soon as the live coverage finished on BBC1 and they let it run for its full 60 minutes.

Unless they are called 'The One Show'

Yep - the BBC rule is that programmes shouldn't start earlier than billed. The One Show is a notable exception to this rule, as it is billed at 1900 but scheduled for 1858.

what about the Eastenders? that been starting before 19.30 many a time.

They've admitted on numerous occasions that the One Show and the 7.30pm programme both start earlier than billed in order to leave enough time for the 8pm news summary.

I think the rule is (across TV) a programme billed at a certain time can start up to 2 minutes early or 4 minutes late. I suspect this BBC rule applies to schedule changes though this is far from the first time they've ran programmes early. Happened a few months ago when highlights of the League Cup (I think) were pulled from the schedule one night and rather than being replaced with a programme of comparable length they aired a shorter show and ran everything else early.

When it first began it was billed as starting at 1855.