BBC News Channel General Discussion

Currently on the NC, there is a program played called Witness, which has Steven Sackur interviewing a guest. It to me is just like HARDTalk with a different name but on location and not in Studio C.

The program also has a graphic on screen continuously saying the time that the program was recorded "1000 GMT Friday 5th September"

EDIT: a Aston has just been shown, showing the website for HardTalk, maybe it is HardTalk that actually has the EPG showing Witness?!

That reminded me of the first time I saw Extra Time - the titles for it were originally based on those of HARDtalk:



And then, of course, there was HARDtalk Extra:



The revived Extra Time has slightly less cheap titles:

Looks like the EPG was wrong in this case - it was definitely HARDtalk, which the description for Witness quite different from what happened on HARDtalk!

Witness is a programme on the BBC World Service that has migrated to BBC World News and the BBC News Channel that looks back at historical events through the eyes of people that were there at the time.

This was most definitely HARDtalk, and not Witness.

It was a special interviewing the Ukranian president at the NATO meeting in Newport, and given that events are fast moving in that region (in terms of ceasefires), it would have been appropriate to show the time of recording on screen.

Presumably Witness was dropped at the last minute to facilitate this.

On BBC World News, Witness is shown as a 5-minuter shown before the top of the hour... not a full 30 minute program.

Had totally forgotten about "Hardtalk Extra". It was an independent production (though used BBC studio facilities and crew). The clip above was recorded in TC11 (formerly N2) on the 6th floor, which - at the time - was the home to BBC Three News, and was recorded on the BBC Three News set.

Actually it is a full length program but airs once a month on BBC WN. The program puts a couple of those five or so minute segments and voila, a 'new' programme for the weekend. Of course, one could see those 5-minute segments as previews of the 25 or so minute programme.

So today's proceedings at the Pistorious trial came to a climax during the One O'Clock News. Interestingly rather than take the World News programme with Karin Giannone, the News Channel and Joanna Gosling decamped to Studio F (I think) with the CSO backdrop used for the London breakfast bulletins.

I dont think this has happened before, has it?

No usually they cut to World or on on one occasion they have used studio C - maybe it was in use today however. This is how the CSO studio Looked.

Christ that is hideous.

That was bad, even a Studio A decamp would have looked better.

When did they move the newsroom to Pretoria? Damn, we all missed that.