and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week
controversy around the fact that the prime minister left those commemorations early. in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and s
in fact, the next day, he apologised for doing that. and when paul was recording this interview, he didn t know the controversies that would follow in the coming hours and days. so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, act
so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week before we go to air we like to record the interview a little bit closer to air as we ve seen, elections move pretty quic
the media show. hello, it s the oprah, meghan, and harry show! not really, this is the media show. but if you re bored of that spectacle, i m afraid to tell you that the aftershocks are very real and relevant to us. as we always say, the media is the story. itv s share price fell by around 5%, reuters has quoted city traders who say that the fall could be partly attributed to the resignation of itv s starjournalist, piers morgan. morgan was bringing in record ratings for good morning britain, of course, but he quit on tuesday after refusing to apologise for his on air criticism of the royal couple. so, whilst the oprah interview represents an historic move , moment for buckingham palace, is it also a massive deal for british media? perhaps so. does piers morgan s departure show that his brand of highly opinionated journalism is incompatible with an ofcom regulated tv channel? and will he resurface on the new news channels that s coming to the uk which has promised to capitali