BBC Breakfast fans took a surprising aim at “complainers” on spin off show Newswatch.
The weekend programme hosted by journalist Samira Ahmed allows viewers to share their concerns regarding certain aspects across BBC news programming. This week when BBC Breakfast hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt handed the reins to Samira, some spectators were annoyed with the broadcaster as they believed that they were advertising and self promoting their upcoming programmes such as Gladiators but masking it as news.
One viewer in particular called Oliver Coates was even interviewed about his concerns by Samira as he gave his thoughts on the light hearted segments. But fans who tuned into the show on Saturday morning (April 6) didn’t know what all the fuss was about and urged Oliver and others to stop complaining.
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Heading over to X formerly known as Twitter one social media user said: “Samira is a hero. Goodness knows how she manages to keep a straight face when interviewing the ‘whinger of the week.'”
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Another penned: “Nothing else to moan about.” A third echoed: “I want to complain about the lack of ‘why oh why’s ‘…. #newswatch complaints are not the quality they used to be.”
A fourth viewer simply said: “Bleeding moaners.” While another added: “Someone who gets worked up enough to feel they need to have a whinge about a TV show in Birmingham featuring in a news bulletin needs to give their head a wobble.”
The news comes after head of BBC news Paul Royall was forced to address the recent hiccups on BBC News. Whether it be a presenter making rude hand signs or technical mishaps, the broadcaster has had a number of issues.
Appearing on Newswatch last month, host Samira asked him if the mistakes were directly linked to staff cuts at the channel. However Paul hit back.
“No I’d actually say they’re decreasing and clearly the examples you’ve shown aren’t good enough. We’ve put in place a new structure and staffing around text production on screen and so whilst there have been mistakes since we’ve done that they have been reducing.”
He added: “So not good enough. We need to improve at that but we have taken steps and measures to get on top of it.”
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