BBC One running early last night?

Programmes should not run more than -1/+4 minutes outside the billed schedule without explanation. In this case programme planning would have issued a schedule change, so technically it would have had a new billed time. That said, as the change was made late, apologies should have been made.

Personally I'm never happy going more than +1 early to a programme, it's much worse than going a few minutes late as people tuning in ON TIME will miss part of it. At least if it's late they haven't missed anything (unless recording it without padding )

Programmes on BBC tv channels should never run more than 1 minute early or 4 minutes late without an apology beforehand. However in this case a schedule change was issued on Friday; I think this is another reason trails aren't used to fill - a schedule change saying "programmes will run 10 minutes early after 11:20pm" is easier to understand than "these two programmes will be 10 minutes early, the next three will be 5 minutes early and the last two will be at the original time".

I think with fillers there are probably two issues: the cost of playing them, and the fact that most wouldn't sit very easily in BBC ONE peaktime (gardening, Trade Secrets, aforementioned man on bike etc - most aren't even widescreen..!).

EDIT: Didn't see marksi's reply before posting!

Maybe the BBC should remake London to Brighton in 5 minutes?

BBC2 often use trade secrets as a 10 minute filler, perhaps they could have done so on BBC1 as well.