Prosecco O'Clock

Some regular viewers of Newsnight were not entranced by last night's special - "The Problem With Men", a debate featuring 16 blokes and 4 women perched on stools. It surely must have been under gestation during the editorship of Ian Katz, but the end credits now show Jess Brammar and Daniel Clarke as "Acting Editors" (correct internally, but surely too much information for viewers).

Mr Katz will have had to clear his BBC workstation and locker, as he's off to a competitor, albeit with some public service ethos. His appointment cleared the commissioning offices at C4 on the afternoon of the announcement, according to Matthew Moore in The Times; the appointment, he says, was met with 'shock and grief'. 'Some staff were said to be in despair that the job — one of the most powerful in British television — had been given to someone with no background in commissioning and minimal experience of Channel 4’s youth and diversity priorities.'

Or it may just have been time for the wine bar....