The One Show, queue a boring 5 minute report on the history of the household mop, followed by toe curling reaction from a celebrity trying to sell their book (let's say Joan Collins?) looking totally bewildered about this weird show.
How anyone actively watches this durge is beyond me.
I don't think it's designed to be watched actively.
It's just "white noise" for viewers who've not bothered switching over after the regional news and/or have turned up early for EastEnders (or whatever else is on at 7:30pm).
I can't imagine that anyone falls over themselves to switch BBC One on just before 7pm especially to see this moving wallpaper.
I find this a pretty miserable thread, especially on a forum that's regularly been happy to provide extensive coverage of Good Morning Britain, This Morning and Loose Women, all of which involve lots of aimless talk and asking the audience what they reckon about the news. If ITV are able to do that for eight hours non-stop, I don't begrudge BBC1 doing it for half an hour.
I'm not going to rush in to say The One Show is my favourite programme and I don't miss it, but we're often having dinner when it's on and we find it suitable accompaniment to that. I think that's the way most people watch it, at 7pm people aren't usually able to sit down and concentrate fully on a programme because they're making or eating dinner or doing homework, so you want a magazine-style show that you can dip in and out of. It's not a flaw that the show jumps around all over the place, it's how it's supposed to be.
And it's maybe not so much now most of the guests are appearing down the line, but when they get a good combination of guests, it can really work and everyone seems to have a good time. Someone on Twitter once said to me it reminded them of a Saturday morning show in those situations and I would totally agree with that. And I like that it's a show that can do everything and anything, and is live and reactive, and is flexible enough to cover whatever happens, whether that's a news story or some showbiz launch.
Sometimes it can be a bit clunky, but it's a live and unscripted show that covers everything. I think the films are often really nicely made and I think Alex Jones is a good and much underrated presenter who's clearly very warm and can be very funny, and they do try and get guests and guest presenters from all kinds of places, they don't just stick to the usual suspects but get stand-ups and people like Jermaine Jenas to host, all doing it in their own way. I think it's been really useful for the Beeb over the last six months.
It's not always the most wonderful bit of telly but it does what it aims to with a bit of a wit and humour. Used to be that Nationwide ran on until 7pm in the seventies and early eighties, when people would generally get home from work earlier, so I don't find The One Show running to 7.30 a massive imposition on the evening. It's not like there was non-stop light entertainment and drama in that slot before it, it was just endless variations on Watchdog and Holiday. ITV would love something like it.
I find this a pretty miserable thread, especially on a forum that's regularly been happy to provide extensive coverage of Good Morning Britain, This Morning and Loose Women, all of which involve lots of aimless talk and asking the audience what they reckon about the news. If ITV are able to do that for eight hours non-stop, I don't begrudge BBC1 doing it for half an hour.
Happy? I think not. The GMB and Loose Women threads both got locked for having too much rota discussion.