Coronavirus | Schedule Changes

Maybe, but I think the general consensus is that the last few have been a bit pointless and little of interest has come out of them, so it may well be that in the next week or so they decide they can shuffle them over to BBC2 or just the news channel unless there's a particularly big story likely to come out of them.

It reminds me of how they did hourly news bulletins on BBC1 on weekend mornings during the Gulf War, and the week they finally started billing them in the Radio Times, the war was over.

There is little point having the news at 1545, surely they could fit it another 45 minute programme and start the news special at 1630.

They've got another two weeks of Money For Nothing they can save for later, for a start.

Well, the other day they started it at 4.15 because of an hour-long Doctors, so they're not averse to shuffling it around a bit. I also suspect part of the thinking is that the longer the news runs and the more programmes they drop, the more content they'll have for the next few weeks. They've got another two weeks of Money For Nothing they can save for later, for a start.

I'd guess that both the morning and afternoon News simulcasts on One are more to do with the need to save programmes than it is to with the need for it to be on BBC1. The 9am hour is particularly pointless considering it usually contains exactly zero new developments whereas the afternoon bulletin is the first airing of the daily death figures on BBC One and also contains the daily government conference.

What they done is move the BBC News at Nine to BBC One from BBC Two and the BBC One programme to BBC Two,

Yeah, don't forget BBC One would usually start a programme at 9:15, not 9:00. And in fact, they just start the first two shows 45 minutes later than usual - it's whatever would normally have been on after Homes Under the Hammer that's been pulled.

Having monitored the sport channel schedules for the website I run, they do seem to be changing some of them late as they acquire rights to things, so the existing repeats are spread more thinly.

Looks like C5 are only showing the lunchtime airings of Home and Away when they cut down to twice a week from Monday.