I still don't get why they shifted news at ten 2 nights running for a Harry Potter film that's been show a million times before.
My theory is that ITV re-ran the Harry Potter series only a few months after it showed the series last Christmas because viewers in the STV area missed out on one of the films due to STV opting out of the network schedule to show a Lockerbie documentary at 9:30. Nevertheless, you are right about ITV's policy of showing Harry Potter films at that time of the day. Occasionally, ITV News at Ten has been on ten minutes late due to the film "Mamma Mia" and, as I've already said, it will be only ten minutes long on Friday 20 June due to ITV showing two consecutive matches. If the old News at Ten had not been axed, ITV would have had to end the post-mortem of the 8:00 pm match by 10:10 and start its warm up for the 11:00 pm match at 10:50 to allow for a half-hour national bulletin and the ten-minute regional bulletin. But, of course, on Friday 20 June, the 6:30 bulletin will meet ITV's peak-time quota for national news and ITV calculates that the football will get more viewers on a Friday night than News at Ten would.
My theory is that ITV re-ran the Harry Potter series only a few months after it showed the series last Christmas because viewers in the STV area missed out on one of the films due to STV opting out of the network schedule to show a Lockerbie documentary at 9:30. .
Unlikely. ITV don't schedule because of STV. They scheduled them because they wanted to.
My theory is that ITV re-ran the Harry Potter series only a few months after it showed the series last Christmas because viewers in the STV area missed out on one of the films due to STV opting out of the network schedule to show a Lockerbie documentary at 9:30. .
Unlikely. ITV don't schedule because of STV. They scheduled them because they wanted to.
Indeed. I recall that, on a Friday night two or three years ago, the News was on at 10:45 because of a Harry Potter film that was on at 8:00. Obviously, ITV lacks imagination with regard to scheduling.
20 past 11 was quite late for the News tonight (bar the Saturday evening news just gone which was at about 1.30am). It meant the regionals tonight finished at midnight on the dot.
I can't remember the last time, if ever recently in the past few years, the regional news has edged the midnight hour.
What with ITV cancelling local news tonight and bulletins being shorter because of the World Cup - am I right in thinking ITV will have to make up these hours lost in their bulletins to reach their quota?
Tonight's late news at 23:15 has been pushed back to 00:00. is that the latest its been show on a weeknight ever?
12.02 on STV, they crashed into a network ident, came out of it and then got stuck on an STV HD ident and missed the headlines and titles, and then crashing into Mark Austin mid report...
Does anyone know how they do the national news preview during the local news at 6? Is it done live and then cut to by the region, or is it recorded and sent to the rgions? Or something completely different? Only I noticed tonight Alastair was looking presumably at a screen before starting.
Surely it's recorded. I've seen different regions airing it at different times. Maybe the look at the screen is just his way to stand in the dead time before rather than stand staring into the camera.
Surely it's recorded. I've seen different regions airing it at different times. Maybe the look at the screen is just his way to stand in the dead time before rather than stand staring into the camera.
I thought presenters were always taught to be "up on 3" - I remember Charlie Brooker doing a thing about it. Seems odd to be looking off-camera until your cue. Not very natural.