The One Show

If anything the opposite has happened - Watchdog has been absorbed...

It also replaced Holiday and Real Story.

Street Doctor was a strand on the Birmingham pilots that became a full-time programme. However behind the scenes The One Show has trained or developed a huge number of producers, directors, APs and researchers who work across the industry, just as Nationwide did a couple of decades before it.

Having been spun out of Nationwide. There's a nice symmetry I guess

Something is confusing me...

BBC have a new daytime vehicle 'Your Money and Your Life' (Available on iPlayer if you're interested!) - a rather random combination of Matt Allwright and...Kym Marsh(?!) but it seems to work quite well, a bit like a more light hearted Watchdog funnily enough

Anyway the studio looks like The One Show (except for the blue furniture and slightly different table) but from the credits it looks like it may actually be filmed at MediaCity - have they basically got a clone of The One Show studio set up there?!

Pretty much all live daytime BBC shows seem to use The One Show studio, so suspect it is presented from there but maybe produced at Media City (as I think Watchdog was). Kym Marsh seems to be turning up on presenting gigs now - she was due to do The One Show a few weeks back but had to pull out due to being ill.

Kym Marsh did The One Show a week ago Friday.

Rip Off Britain and HealthCheck UK were both productions by the BBC current affairs department in Salford that have been recorded in the One Show studio at NBH. It's not so unusual, if that's where the talent is based.

When Jeremy Vine did it, Points of View was a BBC NI production but recorded at NBH - Sunday Morning Live is another one - and way back in 1996, I was in the audience for Fist of Fun which was a BBC Manchester production, but recorded at Television Centre as the studio at BBC Manchester was unavailable. In the eighties there was famously a series of Terry and June recorded at BBC Wales as they couldn't get a studio at TV Centre for some reason.

You could also suggest that in the old days of the ITV regions there was a similar practice, Auf Weidershen Pet was set in Newcastle, with location filming in the city, but it was a Central production.

Whilst appreciating that The One Show was never high brow entertainment it does seem to me that since lockdown it has decided to aim at the lowest common denominator click bait stories. In the past week there's been features on contactless payments, vaccine trials and now pubs with 'racist' names. These are the sort of stories that they know will 'outrage' a key part of their audience i.e. Daily Mail readers and generate column inches. I had first hand experience of this when my mum gave me an earful about the dangers of contactless payments the other day due to the feature on the programme.

Yep, and it's working. The programme is trending on Twitter right now.

Awful programme. They never have time to get into proper interviews with the celebrity guests and try to cram too many guests and films into the 30 minutes.

I'm guessing there is no sign of them announcing a permanent presenter.

They seem to be recycling the same four 'guest' presenters most the time anyway.

(Chris Ramsay, Michael Ball, Gethin Jones and Amol Rajan)