Like our sequestered leader, I blame devolution. Last night's Panorama, produced in Northern Ireland, got stuck in the starting gates. Turning it off and turning it on again didn't seem, initially, to work, and so BBC1 England, BBC1 Scotland, BBC1 Wales and BBC1 Northern Ireland took different routes to fill the gaps - cooking programmes, Garden Rescue, public information films etc. Not all transmitters were due to take Would I Lie To You, so there was more crashing in and out.
The fact that EastEnders is usually 21 or so minutes in a 25 minute slot helped make up the 15-minute overrun by the time we got to the late news - but Huw was wrong when he opened with "Tonight at ten...". It was 10.06pm. Tim Wilcox knows - he was filling on the News Channel, waiting to opt in.
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