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LL
Larry the Loafer
Inspector Sands posted:
dbl posted:

Maybe except for BBC1.. (remember when Strictly finished early and left with looping trailers for 8 minutes)


No, there would have been a full length standby scheduled against it as well as some shorter items, plus the BBC do have generic standbys.

However whether they'll fill a gap that short is another matter, especially as it takes time for the director to realise that they're running short and then find/load a standby while also maintaining the output in the meantime.


Bet they wished they hadn't got rid of Tom and Jerry. Wink
BR
Brekkie
BBC1 just seems to pad with trailers now if it's only 10 minutes or so to fill. I guess anything around half an hour is probably still taken by shows like Outtake TV (a Weakest Link special of course!), which is kind of a role Aunties Bloomers used to fill too.


C4 rarely find themselves in that sort of situation nowadays, but I'd imagine Friends is on stand by. The last thing I recall was this time last year when a days racing at Cheltenham was washed out, but IIRC the racing team actually filled for the majority of the slot - though they probably put a Countdown repeat on at 3.30pm.
SP
Spencer
Of course BBC 2 used to use this filler programmein the 70s and 80s during breakdowns... or if say, a studio guest was to swear and become violent towards HRH Sir Prince Charles.

Wink
GO
gottago
Spencer For Hire posted:
Of course BBC 2 used to use this filler programmein the 70s and 80s during breakdowns... or if say, a studio guest was to swear and become violent towards HRH Sir Prince Charles.

Wink
Poor Charles' face has never been the same since... Laughing
GO
gottago
Brekkie posted:
C4 rarely find themselves in that sort of situation nowadays, but I'd imagine Friends is on stand by. The last thing I recall was this time last year when a days racing at Cheltenham was washed out, but IIRC the racing team actually filled for the majority of the slot - though they probably put a Countdown repeat on at 3.30pm.
Didn't they stick a double bill of Friends on when there was that bomb scare during Big Brother 2003? I remember the live eviction had to be pushed back to the Saturday and they had to move back a film that they'd been heavily promoting all week.
EX
excel99
Neil Jones posted:
Any other programmes used heavily as fillers as Tom & Jerry was, not just on the BBC? Five used to drop Russell Grant in at random but they seem to have dropped him altogether now apart from where his programme is the first thing they can get their hands on.

Five have been scheduling a few 5/10 minutes episodes of Zoo Days recently, so I presume they would use one of them as a filler if need be now?
JO
Joe
Brekkie posted:
BBC1 just seems to pad with trailers now if it's only 10 minutes or so to fill.

And you're basing that on this one incident, yes?
TG
TG
To be fair, it's the only real incident TO base anything on in recent times. Seems like that's what they do with little or no warning...
JO
Joe
TG posted:
To be fair, it's the only real incident TO base anything on in recent times. Seems like that's what they do with little or no warning...

Yes, but you can't then assume that that's what the BBC do these days.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
I suspect the other factor in what to fill with is whether the next programme is live.

Going back to the days of The Time The Place, when they abandoned the programme because of somebody making a demonstration in the studio they went to a few minutes of a slide and music, but then got This Morning to start 10 minutes early.

I think BBC1 went to a football match a few minutes early when they had that power cut that caused the six to fall off air.
AN
Andrew Founding member
dvboy posted:
Coast comes to mind on BBC 2.
Creature Comforts on ITV.

Or The Planet's Funniest Animals if it's an off peak slot or ITV2

In the days of regional ITV, they would often fill with those short interview programmes that LNN would make.

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