The Nightly Show

The problem with pre recorded continuity on UTV showed itself tonight, with silence during the breakdown and with timechecked announcements being wrong for the rest of the night.

It's funny that the show going off air has generated the msot interest in the show there's ever been!

No, just compared the video uploaded by catbooks with my recording from ITV +1 and it was the same length, nothing cut.

Here's a clip of what happened on +1

Just about to edit that post - it did feel longer ha.

Something doesn't seem quite right with that breakdown.

The breakdown slide appeared before the show or the sponsor bumper actually appeared to fall off air, and then some fairly generic colour bars and tone appeared shortly after.

There also seems no logistical reason that ITV played out the whole second part in full forcing the rest of the schedule to become late, especially so considering the show is pre-recorded. Part of me is wondering whether ITV caused this so that viewers tuning in to the news at 10.30pm got to see the end of the show unexpectedly with the hope of them tuning in to watch the show in the future.

Maybe I'm just looking at it with a cynical eye, but given the show didn't even look like it fell off air before the slide appeared I think I'm right to be cynical.

On a lighter note, it's nice to hear the trusty ITV breakdown music is still in use, and has been for over a decade. Just a shame they didn't play the whole piece rather than a short looped version of it.

They can't cut down the breakdown as its +1 not +0.59. The output is always either identical or blanked out. If they could do more they wouldn't have wrong clocks during GMB and the like.

Nobody is tuning into the news at 10:30 if they weren't already tuned in. ITV have enough trouble getting people not to tune away from News at Ten, never mind turning over to it.

I think it's unlikely, though Channel 4 did once allegedly fake a breakdown on the night Michael Jackson died to avoid showing the last part of a comedy show that was making jokes about him.

I would expect the sponsorship to be played out by ITV rather than it being stitched to the programme, so maybe as they were going into Part 2, they were told by the edit suite playing it in, that Part 2 wasn't ready, so quickly put up the breakdown slide, as they knew they were heading into nothing.

The very generic colour bars are a bit odd though.

Possibly the colour bars were coming up the line from the edit suite, the automation took that before the Director could crash out to the breakdown slide manually?

Yes, this was during the short-lived TNT Show series with Jack Whitehall and Holly Walsh. A slide appeared to say the show would continue with audio only, but was simply a breakdown slide with the occasional 'we're sorry for the interruption' voiceover. This happened with around five minutes of the show to go, and the 'fault' was mysteriously sorted out the very second the programme ended and the titles began.

'Generic' colour bars? Not everyone puts patch idents on their bars, and if you don't - they all look identical. Because they are. (Edited shows will have non idented bars on them normally, though as-live shows may have studio bars before their record start)