I believe it'll be back in TV Centre, after its time in White City and the Media Centre.
It's still at White City.
No - it's coming from a TV Centre studio now. The previous couple of series came as an OB from the Media Centre, after Watchdog moved out from the White City building, which was also done as an OB.
You're quite right I'm confusing it with Rogue Traders who have now moved in there.
Watchdog was a lot better last night.. more like what it used to be.
It was only half an hour for starters because of the debate and that was spot on! It felt an ideal length.
And they got rid of Rogue Traders to accomodate this, which was also nice! I feel that has to return to a separate programme as it's just acting as filler material.
Yes I agree, the programme flowed better and seem to mix the best bits of the old Anne Robinson Watchdog with the Nicky Campbell era. 30 minutes is much better for the programme.
The mobile phone story was just stupid. Some people 'discovered' a way of sending a text message from any number/name? I assume they discovered this by signing up to one of the many websites that allow you to do this either through a web front end or via an API. Watchdog asking the phone companies to remove the 'loophole' is ridiculous, its not a loophole its how the mobile phone network works. If Watchdog wanted to cover this non-story then they should have done it as a piece to educate people in to how mobile networks work, rather than a piece blaming mobile networks for their customer's ignorance which Watchdog have only added to.
If they must cover a mobile story, what about investigating why they and other BBC shows use a shortcode that most people will be charged for texting rather than a normal phone number which most people will not be charged for texting. I don't believe the BBC benefit from this charge, I think the mobile companies are the only ones to benefit.
And on that topic it's time mobile companies took responsibility both for texts that are not received (it's ridiculous TV companies got the blame for texts they did not even receive through no fault of their own with all the voting scandals a few years back!) - and also why charges are "considerably more" from mobile networks.
Back to the non-issue though Watchdog highlighted and those sorts of websites have existed pretty much since texting began - I remember using them a decade ago.