Saturday, September 8, 2018

It's really important

BBC News is offering a week of 'special programming' six months ahead of Brexit.

I'm afraid it's a bit ho-hum.  A Panorama/Nick Robinson interview with Mrs May, including some 'behind the scenes' stuff in No 10; Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris gets slots on various shows across the week; Newsbeat has a week of vox-pops across the UK; An edition of the Today programme is co-presented from Salzburg; and we're promised special reports in the Six and Ten.

So no additional air-time beyond regular news output. I'm afraid previous leaders of BBC News would have been more ambitious, banging on Charlotte Moore's door for bigger and better slots. Brexit is ideal for a long, well produced 'hypothetical', with surrogates gaming the deal. Anyone remember A Question of Ulster back in 1972 ? Three full hours of prime-time...

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