The 'Victoria Derbyshire' Programme

Nope, they are outside!

And no 'lovely films'

A second earthquake in Nepal, and Victoria is showing viewers "some memes" of a photoshopped Ed Miliband dressed as a clubber on holiday in Ibiza, presumably pulled off Twitter and Facebook. She's now trailing something to do with Channel 4's Benefits Street programme, coming up in the next few mins.

Sky is covering breaking news of the earthquake.

Well, that screenshot comparison just says it all doesn't it.

This sorry excuse for a "news" programme is making me very angry indeed. The News Channel is no longer free to provide breaking news. The programme is too slow and too reluctant to break from its pre-planned agenda to cover big stories.

The slow death of the News Channel I think.

R.I.P. BBC News Channel.

Going through the show between 1015-1100:

Discussion on young stroke victims with two guests, one DTL from Brighton.
Forward promotion of interview with BAFTA Best Actress Georgina Campbell
News headlines including a very brief segment about the second earthquake in Nepal shown on the plasma.
Sport bulletin
Interview with Georgina Campbell concentrating on domestic violence
Interview with local MP regarding C4's Benefits Street.

Well, I first saw the earthquake thing as the top story on the BBC News website at 10:50 or so, switched on the News Channel on TV and the first mention was at 10.05 in the news headlines. There might have been more time spent on it. I don't know. I'd switched over after 15 mins of it not being mentioned except for on the ticker.

I thought it mustn't be that big a story then, but Sky were rolling with it and it remained the top story on the news website.

Maybe my expectations are wrong, and I shouldn't expect breaking or rolling news at that time of day, just "lovely memes" instead.

I still maintain that the best way to get the point across is to complain to the BBC. If every person in this thread who dislikes the programme complained to the BBC, then there's a much better chance of something being done than just complaining here.

Make an official complaint, contact Points of View, contact Newswatch - there are so many avenues that could be pursued.

Wouldn't it be better during breaking news to actually cut back to the news studio (there seems to be somebody around) and announce to viewers they will be remaining only on BBC Two for the rest of the show?

Or perhaps just scrap Victoria altogether on the news channel and output World News?

Whilst there might be someone to deal on screen with the breaking news there might not be the technical crew to support that. Having said that on this occasion BBC World might have been the better answer anyway.

Given John Whittingdale's appointment, there really can't have been a worse time for them to have launched this show.