Victoria Derbyshire (TV programme)

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Victoria Derbyshire
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Title
GenreNews and current affairs
Created by BBC News
Presented by Victoria Derbyshire
Joanna Gosling
Theme music composer David Lowe
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsStudio B, Broadcasting House, London, England
EditorsLiz Gibbons (2018–20) [1]
Louisa Compton (2015–June 2018) [2]
Running time120 minutes (2015–2018)
60 minutes (2018–2020)
Original release
Network BBC News
BBC Two
Release7 April 2015 (2015-04-07) 
17 March 2020 (2020-03-17) [3]
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Victoria Derbyshire is a British weekday current affairs programme, which was simulcast from April 2015 to March 2020 on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, hosted by Victoria Derbyshire. [4] Its remit includes original stories, exclusive interviews and audience debates. [5]

Contents

It also acts as a showcase for BBC journalism using reports and interviews by BBC Nations and Regions, BBC World Service, language services and other programmes such as Newsnight , World News Today and Global, plus the BBC Online teams such as BBC Trending and BBC Pop Up. Occasionally the uncut versions of interviews were aired as well, in this case they were taken in place of HARDtalk and aired by BBC World News as well.

Broadcasting

Until 2018, the show was broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC News from 9:00 am to 11:00 am every Monday to Friday, from then on its start time was shifted forward an hour to 10:00am. Its episodes were available to watch for 30 days after release on the BBC iPlayer catch-up service. On 22 January 2020, it was announced that the programme would be axed in later 2020 as part of BBC cuts. [6] [7] However, due to priority put on coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BBC suspended the program earlier than initially planned with the final episode airing on 17 March 2020. Derbyshire has remained as a presenter in the same time slot, instead presenting a standardly structured BBC World News newscast.

Presenters

YearsPresenterRole
2015–2020 Victoria Derbyshire Main presenter, Monday–Thursday
2015–2020 Joanna Gosling Friday (alt) & main relief
2016–2020 Chloe Tilley Friday presenter (alt)
2016–2020 Annita McVeigh Newsreader Tuesday–Friday
2019–2020 Carrie Gracie Newsreader Monday, Relief newsreader
2015–2020 Norman Smith Relief Presenter, Assistant political editor
2016–2018 Tina Daheley Relief presenter
2017–2018 Matt Barbet
2018–2019 Riz Lateef
2019 Samira Ahmed
2019 Victoria Fritz
2015–2019 Julian Worricker Relief presenter and newsreader
2017 Martine Croxall
2017–2019 Matthew Price
2017–2018 Reeta Chakrabarti
2016–2020Rebecca JonesRelief newsreader
2016–2018 Ben Brown
2016–2020 Rachel Schofield
2018–2019 Carole Walker
2015 Naga Munchetty
2015–2016 Jane Hill
2016–2017 Maxine Mawhinney

When Derbyshire was away (on leave, on an assignment, or elsewhere), the titles described the programme as 'with' the stand-in presenter.

Reporters/segment presenters

Cancellation

The BBC described it as the "centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news," and the initial "digital first" TV show. Of the first ten editions of the Victoria Derbyshire programme, one show in April 2015 attracted only 39,000 viewers and gained a 'zero rating." [8]

The programme was cancelled in January 2020 as part of the cost-cutting in BBC News. [6] [7] On Twitter, Amol Rajan, the BBC's media editor, said the costs were deemed too high for a conventionally watched linear show, but said its "Digital impact was huge. Show was designed to reach audiences the BBC struggles to connect with, and it did - online." [9] The last programme was broadcast on 17 March 2020, itself being moved forward as a result of restrictions imposed by the BBC due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]

Controversies

An episode of the Victoria Derbyshire show broadcast on 22 May 2015, featured an interview with Lisa Longstaff from the organisation Women Against Rape. During the broadcast, Longstaff made reference to the case of Eleanor de Freitas, a woman who died of suicide while being prosecuted for allegedly perverting the course of justice by allegedly making a false rape claim. Longstaff twice referred to the alleged victim of the false rape claim as a "rapist" which was not challenged by the interviewer. The BBC later issued an apology for any distress they had caused as a result of the broadcast and made it clear that the person referred to had never been tried or convicted of rape. [10] [11]

On June 28, 2018, the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! was discussed on an episode, two days after 15-year-old Ben Walmsley, a fan of the game from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, committed suicide. Due to the suicides of Sayori and Yuri, Derbyshire claimed that Doki Doki Literature Club! is "a risk to children" and that its graphics "are clearly aimed at young people", and then had a 30-minute conversation between two people about the game, Laura Dale from game news website Kotaku and Lorna Fraser of the mental health charity Samaritans, who discussed the game's claim that it is suitable for people over the age of 13. Most of this conversation was about paying attention to the mental health of children and listening to disclaimers. [12] [13] [14]

Awards

In 2015, Derbyshire was nominated for RTS Presenter of the Year along with Zand who was nominated in the Young Talent category which Zand won. Derbyshire won Broadcaster of the Year at the PinkNews Awards in 2015 and 2016. [15] [16] In 2017, the programme won a BAFTA for its coverage of former footballers who had been sexually abused. [5]

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