With the BBC Trust's Public Value Test decision expected on 21st November, the BBC has announced its final part-month of trial high definition programming.
Continuing comedy includes the third series of Green Green Grass, as well as The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, starring Jennifer Saunders. The second series of Not Going Out also continues.
The BAFTA nominated series Live at the Apollo returns with guest hosts Jack Dee, Joan Rivers, Jo Brand, Jimmy Carr, Lee Mack and Dara O Briain. Special guests include Alan Carr, Sean Lock, Patrick Kielty, Michael McIntyre, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Jason Manford and Stephen K. Amos.
Four comedy dramas made in Northern Ireland make up an anthology of modernised Fairy Tales. Lee Ingleby (George Gently, Life On Mars), Charity Wakefield (Sense And Sensibility, Jane Eyre), Shaun Williamson (Extras, EastEnders) and Geraldine James (Little Britain, The Time Of Your Life) star in Rapunzel, Billy Goat starring Bernard Hill, Paul Nicholls, Mathew Horne and Sarah Smart; Cinderella starring James Nesbitt and Maxine Peake and The Emperor's New Clothes with casting to be announced.
In drama, The Tudors and Robin Hood continue, while Strictly Come Dancing is also shown as a simulcast with BBC One.
Finally, The Antiques Roadshow also runs as a simulcast with BBC One.
What exactly does this mean?
After the final month of the trial is complete, does BBC HD seamlessly continue as a permanent HD channel, or after completion do we get a nice blank screen as a period of interegnum between the trail phase and the permanent phase? Even worse a blank screen full stop!
Not really made clear in the article.
BBC should create HD programmes that people want to watch in 1920x1080p: Eastenders, Take It Or Leave It, Sport, Olympics, Nature, Dr. Who (should have been filmed in HD), and News etcetera and not things that virtually nobody would want to watch normally.