BBC Two - major problems

Just switched over from I'm A Celeb and BBC Two are having major problems. Announcer was apologing for major technical problems. Everything went black, then we only had sound, a bit of a promo, then black again and only sound. It looks as if they've hot wired Room 101 onto air. Wonder what's been going on while the nation has been watching ITV1.

Well I expect this is related, but while watching Tetris: From Russia With Love on BBC Four, for about 30-45 seconds at about 9.50pm, BBC Two appeared on our screens! This was on DTT.

Just as they were saying what the original creator of Tetris did after 1990 or so

Stu

Oooh, the Michael Grade one, for the pres fans theres a glimpse of the 1984 BBC1 Christmas ident and the theory behind it.

I am not watching IACGMOOH, I was watching American Pie 2 on Sky Movies 5 for about the 200th time.

After Buzzcocks the screen was frozen on a picture of what looked like a red polo for a few minutes. The screen then went blank and Coupling attempted to come on screen. Frozen stills of Coupling, blank screens and a BBC2 apology caption kept flashing between each other on screen for a few minutes until Coupling finally appeared properly. This was happening on both Digital and analogue terrestrial.


Lee

The announcement at the end of Coupling did seem very serious...no "apologies about that, never mind, it's all over now". There may be more to come if it's that bad...

[EDIT] Beaten to the specific details by someone else.

It sounds like maybe BBC TWO had a mixer problem and had to move suites, but the switching went a bit awry in the rush.

Apology over the ident before Newsnight just then...(no chance over Room 101's credits and I guess a slide would have been out of the question too).

I was watching the Tetris programme on BBC Four and it suddenly started showing Coupling for around 20 seconds. I know I hadn't changed the channel cos the BBC Four dog was still present.

Not in Scotland though, just the standard 'Newsnight and Newsnight Scotland'

Chances are that the fault didn't happen on BBC2 Scotland.
If Dan is correct then it wouldn't have

I saw the breakdown after Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Both BBC Two NI and BBC Two Scotland were on apology captions, whilst BBC 2W was doing its own thing. BBC Two NI recovered first joining Coupling, BBC Two England took a while to find both the vision and sound (the sound arrived first accompanied by a still, then disappeared, then vision and sound both returned), BBC Two Scotland were on an apology for quite a lot longer before they re-joined.

Did BBC Two NI manage to route the running server from London via their clean feed? They were definitely back with Coupling before England on DSat... (The BBC NI apology caption was also far better laid out than the seemingly identical - apart from the BBC Two box - Scotland and England versions. Whoever laid out the text on those needs some basic text layout advice - or Aston training)