Sky News: 2021 Refresh

[Craigwills]

Ian King and Adam Boulton announcing their respective programmes - Ian King Live and All Out Politics - are off air for the summer until after the August Bank Holiday.
I’m sure Ian King continued last summer, the politics programme is sort of fair enough but business doesn’t have a hiatus in the same way as parliamentary recess, a little bit of a strange move.

Do we think this means Sky News Today will be 10am-2pm? Or a new morning shift 10am-12pm?

Yes, Ian King Live was 2x30 minute slots per day from the start of the pandemic until the partial schedule revamp in September 2020. In previous years I remember it taking the summer off. EPG suggests a 10-12 shift.

In other news, it looks like "A Week In Interviews" is back this weekend after an 8-month (if not longer) hiatus.

I couldn’t remember previous summer periods, but I just thought this year particularly with a lot of the impacts on business and post COVID recovery it might be worth keeping on air. When clearly they staffed it last year, perhaps the ‘pingdeminc’ may have forced a more stripped back style.

I notice overnights some days over the last few weeks have repeated midnight throughout til 6am, doesn’t seem to be any reasoning on when they do this, for instance one day this week they missed a few key medals for Team GB despite leading with that at 6am, but not a mention at all - bar the ticker - at 3am, 4am or 5am.

Interesting if they do have a separate morning shift, and who’ll present it. Maybe nice to see Niall get a lie in and do that shift for a few weeks.