Yep... as with Maggie Thatcher earlier this year, we have - from a news perspective - the passing of a very old person who had been poorly for some time. So, there will be stacks of material ready to go.
Have you seen it!? Cancer is funnier. The BBC are only screening it to keep the Scottish working classes on board. Truly dire.
Scottish?
Well to be fair it is popular in Scotland and is indeed made at BBC Scotland. It's also popular in the rest of the UK and Ireland, Australia and loads of other countries including versions in Romania and Russia. It's clearly not going to be seen as a highbrow sitcom but that doesn't mean it's not good. The story to how it got to where it is today is also fascinating.
I don't think that is the case. It is my understanding that Moon was withdrawn from use
altogether
because of controversy over its filming location, being filmed far afield from the UK, in the Kamenjak peninsula of north Croatia.
That's the first time I've ever seen that as the reason.
I didn't like ITV opening with "Nelson Mandela is dead." It's sensationalist and crass. Just like you wouldn't open with "Mandela is now a corpse" , I think "Nelson Mandela has died" is much more appropriate.
BBC One's "news flash" was a bit of a car crash. I would have preferred them to do a breaking news update on BBC One with a newscaster reporting the event - but I don't suppose there's any facility to do that if BBC World and BBC News Channel are both on air doing rolling news. Presumably, as the news channel were taking the feed of the President's speech, BBC One had to take it too.
Not necessarily, News channel has taken World News output before while national bulletins have aired. Since the News Channel was taking World News output, BBC One could have cut to Huw if they wished.
5 News at 5 has Emma Crosby presenting from the studio, along with a report by her from Robben Island. I presume it might've been filmed when he was ill in June.
The programme ending with Emma signing off over a silent still of Mandela.
Also, a NewsTalk Live special 'Mandela: The Legacy' at 6:30.
Nelson Mandela: The Fight for Freedom replaces HIGNFY and Live at the Apollo on BBC One at 2100.
HIGNFY moves to 2335 after Graham Norton.
Might have been better to have bounced QI off BBC 2 at 22:00hrs, and stuck HIGNFY there instead.
Would be quite unusual to bump a BBC1 show to BBC2. It would have annoyed QI fans and there are plenty of those too. At least HIGNFY is getting aired, and not totally cancelled.