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BBC One will have no programmes other than Olympics and news programmes (at their normal times) from 5.45 pm on Friday 26th July to the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday 11th August. During the news programmes BBC Two will have the Olympics.

BBC Two will be also having The Hundred cricket matches on as well, Won't be on every day though. The matches they intend to cover (I think the women's matches are played in the afternoon and the men's in the early evening to about 9.30 pm):
Tuesday 23 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 25 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 1 August afternoon
Saturday 3 August afternoon
Sunday 4 August afternoon
Thursday 8 August afternoon
Saturday 10 August afternoon
Tuesday 13 August afternoon and evening
Wednesday 14 August evening
Saturday 17 August afternoon
Sunday 18 August afternoon and evening

I won't be surprised if there aren't widespread complaints by those who aren't interested in sporting events.

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

BBC One will have no programmes other than Olympics and news programmes (at their normal times) from 5.45 pm on Friday 26th July to the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday 11th August. During the news programmes BBC Two will have the Olympics.

BBC Two will be also having The Hundred cricket matches on as well, Won't be on every day though. The matches they intend to cover (I think the women's matches are played in the afternoon and the men's in the early evening to about 9.30 pm):
Tuesday 23 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 25 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 1 August afternoon
Saturday 3 August afternoon
Sunday 4 August afternoon
Thursday 8 August afternoon
Saturday 10 August afternoon
Tuesday 13 August afternoon and evening
Wednesday 14 August evening
Saturday 17 August afternoon
Sunday 18 August afternoon and evening

I won't be surprised if there aren't widespread complaints by those who aren't interested in sporting events.

Oh, joy

Moonie
@El Loro posted:

BBC One will have no programmes other than Olympics and news programmes (at their normal times) from 5.45 pm on Friday 26th July to the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday 11th August. During the news programmes BBC Two will have the Olympics.

BBC Two will be also having The Hundred cricket matches on as well, Won't be on every day though. The matches they intend to cover (I think the women's matches are played in the afternoon and the men's in the early evening to about 9.30 pm):
Tuesday 23 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 25 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 1 August afternoon
Saturday 3 August afternoon
Sunday 4 August afternoon
Thursday 8 August afternoon
Saturday 10 August afternoon
Tuesday 13 August afternoon and evening
Wednesday 14 August evening
Saturday 17 August afternoon
Sunday 18 August afternoon and evening

I won't be surprised if there aren't widespread complaints by those who aren't interested in sporting events.

You can put me at the top of that list El

I really don't know why the BBC don't have a dedicated sports channel..

slimfern
@El Loro posted:

BBC One will have no programmes other than Olympics and news programmes (at their normal times) from 5.45 pm on Friday 26th July to the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday 11th August. During the news programmes BBC Two will have the Olympics.

BBC Two will be also having The Hundred cricket matches on as well, Won't be on every day though. The matches they intend to cover (I think the women's matches are played in the afternoon and the men's in the early evening to about 9.30 pm):
Tuesday 23 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 25 July afternoon and early evening
Thursday 1 August afternoon
Saturday 3 August afternoon
Sunday 4 August afternoon
Thursday 8 August afternoon
Saturday 10 August afternoon
Tuesday 13 August afternoon and evening
Wednesday 14 August evening
Saturday 17 August afternoon
Sunday 18 August afternoon and evening

I won't be surprised if there aren't widespread complaints by those who aren't interested in sporting events.

Good grief â€Ķ..that’s nuts ðŸĪŽðŸĪŽ

Baz

Good morning everyone

Fairly sunny here and warmer than yesterday. BBC forecast as high of 25°, Met Office 27°
Very warm tomorrow with highs of BBC 26°, Met Office 29°
Cooler on Saturday - highs of BBC  21°, Met Office 22°. Some rain also expected with the BBC forecasting thunderstorms and the Met Office not.

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

Good morning everyone

Fairly sunny here and warmer than yesterday. BBC forecast as high of 25°, Met Office 27°
Very warm tomorrow with highs of BBC 26°, Met Office 29°
Cooler on Saturday - highs of BBC  21°, Met Office 22°. Some rain also expected with the BBC forecasting thunderstorms and the Met Office not.

I hope everyone has a good day

A heat wave of miniscule proportions I think they said (in so many words)

G'day folks!

slimfern
@slimfern posted:

A heat wave of miniscule proportions I think they said (in so many words)

G'day folks!

Although there's a yellow heat alert in place, it doesn't seem likely to become an official heatwave. For instance in my area, the threshold is 27°. That may be reached today and more likely tomorrow. But Saturday is expected to be cooler. So only 2 days rather than the 3 required for it to be an official heatwave

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

Although there's a yellow heat alert in place, it doesn't seem likely to become an official heatwave. For instance in my area, the threshold is 27°. That may be reached today and more likely tomorrow. But Saturday is expected to be cooler. So only 2 days rather than the 3 required for it to be an official heatwave

Two is better than none El

slimfern

There have been major problems around the world with IT systems this morning affecting ait and train travel, card payments, pharmacies and many more businesses. Sky News was off air for a time but is back. The CBBC channel also off air.

It's to do with Microsoft systems for businesses etc. May be something to do with Crowdstrike which provides Falcon Driver antivirus software and had done an update. That software is business related so unlikely to be on home computers,

El Loro
@El Loro posted:

There have been major problems around the world with IT systems this morning affecting ait and train travel, card payments, pharmacies and many more businesses. Sky News was off air for a time but is back. The CBBC channel also off air.

It's to do with Microsoft systems for businesses etc. May be something to do with Crowdstrike which provides Falcon Driver antivirus software and had done an update. That software is business related so unlikely to be on home computers,

It's crazy stupid how an update can cause such widespread chaos .....and it's kind of worrying that it can

slimfern
@slimfern posted:

The damage is already done though El...surely it would make more sense for them to test the update prior to sending it out.

Apparently the update included a faulty kernel driver.  The update was removed 78 minutes after it became available and a fix a few hours later. 78 minutes mightn't seem that long but with many business computer systems on the whole time, that was enough to cause today's chaos.
Kernel drivers operate at the core of computer operating systems.

The update would have been tested but clearly failed to identify that there was a problem.

It does do to show though that computer systems are vulnerable. Businesses should have already got a recovery plan as to what do do when something like this happens

El Loro