BBC View Point Midlands

anyone else see the promo for BBC View Point Midlands after midlands today? - voiced over by Pat Burns - 'coming soon to BBC Two'  - i cant make up my mind if its a new programme, or a new name for Midlands at Westminster

the pic below as the shows the promo for the new programme:
http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/viewpointmidlands.jpg
as you can see it shares the same phonenumber as midlands at westminster (this pic was taken ages ago):
http://www.tvhome.f2s.com/ikonboard/upload/viewpointmidlands2.jpg
anyone know if its a new name, or a new show

A replacement for The Midland's Report maybe?

Peter.

I've seen the promo too.

I thought it was more likely to be a new name for Midlands Report than a new name for Midlands @ Westminster. I say that because I'd have thought it was fairly important to mention 'Westminster' in the title of regional Westminster programmes.

But then again... Patrick Burns' voice and the M @ W phone number...

EDIT: Maybe it's a new name for both M @ W and MidsRpt!!! It could be a branding thing (a bit like LDN, but the affected services will just be BBC Two Midlands programmes, rather than the midlands' TV news, local radio and website)

(Edited by StandUpAndBeSeated at 3:32 pm on Oct. 17, 2001)

That branding is horrible - I'm glad I don't live there very often.

Mind you at the moment I'm without TV at all so - eep!

BBC South/South East's Sunday programme is being renamed South on Sunday from South of Westminster, and BBC London's Around Westminster was renamed Metropol a year ago. So the trend actually seems to be away from using the name Westminster.

How has the breakup of NSE affected South on Sun / Metropol? Or has it had no effect? And if not why didn't the SET/LDN switch happen along with SoS/Met? And where did Around Westminster go? Mind you, it has been ages since I watched analog BBC2... the fact our BBC2 picture was so bad was one of the reasons my family got Sky...

They get Midlands@Westminster looking really nice before surely they won't dump that. That picture is view point whatever looks awful.

We had a strange trailer today about BBC Regional Reception,with a tour around the Marleybone building!

i had a sneeky suspicion that the bbc might have been trying to standardise their regional parliamentary programs - as they did with regional news - but this time go that bit further and have a standard name eg, Viewpoint Midlands, Viewpoint East, Viewpoint London etc. but thankfully theyre not.

the titles look as if theyve been knocked up by a workexperience boy at birmingham too - i was growing to like the purple m@w (im presuming its the new parliamentary prog).

if it is m@w's replacement - the removal of westminster from the name could be due to include things like the European union, local council politics etc.

if it is the new m@w we'll know on sunday

When's it on and on which channel?

Well, I saw a trail for Tonights Midlands report earlier, so unless that's gping to be-named in the next few weeks I guess it'sM@W, but I could be wrong