Quick! It's started! (pt.2)

Brilliant piece of professionalism from the thinking person's channel on Saturday night as, having extensively trailed the return of Parkinson, including a headline interview with man-of-the-moment David Tennant, ITV bizarrely and surreptitiously move it forward 15 minutes. Most people therefore tuned in just as David Tennant was wrapping up. Even the website still gives 10.40pm as the start time.

Do people really just walk in off the street and "manage" the "schedule"?

Quick! It's started!

Good article here criticising the BBC's cak-handedness with the scheduling of Doctor Who. I won't repeat it, other than to agree that, what with the current fluid approach to the schedule, and now the news that the series is to skip a week for the Eurovision Song Contest, it seems a perverse and foolhardy way to treat the show that has galvanized Saturday nights for them. It brings to mind the Monty Python gag about the number of exams you have to fail to work in programme planning, and that was made almost 30 years ago.