The 20 minute barrage of Ronnie and Ronnie late on Christmas Evening is a bit of a curiousity for me.
It's as though something else was commissioned, but failed to make the deadline for the schedules, so this was dragged and hacked from the archives as an emergency stop gap time filler.
Late to this, wondering whether Mrs Brown's Boys was intially planned to run as a single hour, and as that wasn't possible with the scripting, the episode was split across two slots (37' and 28'), that a filler was needed to run up to a previously fixed time news. If you add the durations of MBB (37') and The Two Ronnies Sketchbook (19') together they hit an hour slot.
Odd, I'll agree a 19min cutdown is wierd.
Mrs Brown has always been around the half hour mark. Two Ronnies seemed an odd addition to the schedule really and inevitably included dated references in the intros and at 20 minutes not much point to it
really - the BBC seemed quite desperate to push the news as far out of primetime as possible this year.
They edited it down but left in the references to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown which was more dated than the sketches that were much older.
Looking over some of our (anonymised) data from Christmas Day and Boxing Day on @EE – note the reduction in social use combined with an increase in people watching BBC channels on their mobile devices (in dark blue) around 20:30-21:30 on Dec 25: pic.twitter.com/0BWHjgsUoV
I think it is safe to say the Oneness will be staying for 2020. There is not a hint of a change in the air at the BBC, but maybe this is what they want, and surprise us after the fireworks and Craig David ..... I won't hold out much hope though.
Given that the BBC is facing another existential crisis courtesy of the reinvigorated Tories, I doubt refreshing the appearance of BBC One is high on anyone's agenda there.
Given that the BBC is facing another existential crisis courtesy of the reinvigorated Tories, I doubt refreshing the appearance of BBC One is high on anyone's agenda there.
Welcome back, One-ness. You haven't been missed.
If they were planning a new look, they would have been doing it for months, not just since the 12th December
I think it is safe to say the Oneness will be staying for 2020. There is not a hint of a change in the air at the BBC, but maybe this is what they want, and surprise us after the fireworks and Craig David ..... I won't hold out much hope though.
We didn't have much warning of the BBC Two curve idents either did we?
Given that the BBC is facing another existential crisis courtesy of the reinvigorated Tories, I doubt refreshing the appearance of BBC One is high on anyone's agenda there.
Given that the BBC is facing another existential crisis courtesy of the reinvigorated Tories, I doubt refreshing the appearance of BBC One is high on anyone's agenda there.