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Alex Potts's avatar

Fair play to anyone who can get 15 million people, most of whom have had their attention spans destroyed by an overheated attention economy, to sit through a four-hour video on a really niche, arcane subject.

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Chris Cook's avatar

This is actually not 1000 miles from what Ian Katz effectively wanted. Obviously, we were doing 40+ mins of TV a weekday, but his big thing was “can we make the show actually be a thing beyond the time slot?”. So we had a BBC sport style liveblog during elections, had a pretty active YouTube channel and stuff like that. We used to break stories in the mid-PM online and did a full day of live events after the 2016 referendum, mostly not for broadcast.

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