Saturday's TV schedule has seen some big changes following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
BBC and ITV have been switching up their schedules in the wake of the Queen's passing, after she died yesterday at the age of 96 at her home of Balmoral in Scotland. The broadcasters have made some big changes to allow for rolling news coverage as the former Prince of Wales becomes King Charles III alongside his wife, Camilla, Queen Consort.
Continuing into the weekend, there will be some big changes to the schedule as royal documentaries and news coverage continues to mark the passing of the Queen. Both BBC have announced their schedule changes for Saturday on BBC One, BBC Two and ITV.
On BBC One, the focus will be around the Royal Family and related news coverage. BBC Breakfast will air from 6am to 9.30am, before coverage of King Charles III's next steps takes place. The Proclamation of HM The King will air until 12.30pm when the usual BBC News will take over for more coverage as the day goes on and the royal procedures continue to take place.
From 2pm, there will be a documentary called Picturing Elizabeth: Her Life in Images, followed by The Queen and Us: 50s an hour later and The Queen and Us: 60s the following hour before BBC News kicks in again at 5pm. The regional news will air at 5.50pm, before BBC News returns at 6pm. At 6.45pm, The One Show: Our Queen Remembered will be aired.
The day will end with Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen at 7.45pm, which will run for an hour and 15 minutes before When the Queen Spoke to the Nation airs. It will be followed by the BBC News until the end of the day.
Over on BBC Two, there will be some new shows and repeats of what has aired previously. At 9.30am, Deadly Pole to Pole will air, followed by Saturday Kitchen Live half an hour later. Mary Berry - Cook and Share will air from 11.30am, followed by Rick Stein's Spain at 12pm. Bargain Hunt will air at 1pm, but it is not yet known whether it will be the episode that was cut short on Thursday when the BBC switched to news coverage following concerns over the Queen's health.
Money for Nothing will air from 1.45pm, followed by the film The Secret Life of Pets 2, beginning at 2.35pm. That will be followed by Flog It! at 3.55pm, with Superman & Lois: All Is Lost on after 4.50pm. Unbeatable will ait at 5.35pm, with Richard Osman's House of Games soon after at 6.05pm. The Hit List - fronted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes will air at 6.35pm. Pointless Celebrities will be after that, followed by Casualty - which moves from its usual BBC One slot - and airs at 8.10pm.
Brooklyn, the film, will air at 9pm, with sporting coverage then being broadcasted after. It starts with Today At The Test: England v South Africa, then the Golf: PGA Championship Highlights and then Women's International Cricket Highlights: England v India.
ITV will resume some of its normal programming on Saturday evening. The day, though, will mostly be filled with news coverage and royal documentaries. Good Morning Britain will air for the first time on a Saturday, from 6am to 9.30am, fronted by Susanna Reid and Ben Shepherd. ITV News will then take over with a special programme - ITV News: The Proclamation of the King - as continuous news coverage carries on until 12.30pm. At 12.30, it will segue into the scheduled ITV News bulletin before royal documentaries will be aired.
From 2.15pm to 5pm, ITV will air three specially made documentaries. The first is called Our Queen, The People’s Stories and will feature many stories from those who were lucky enough to meet the Queen. The second will be narrated by Julie Etchingham, and will be titled The Queen in Her Own Words. It will contain some of the Queen's past speeches, letters, broadcasts and personal memoirs, which show both the public and private side of Her Majesty.
Queen and Country will follow as the final documentary of the day, narrated by Alison Steadman. It will explore her love for the countryside and her adoration for the UK's green spaces. The national and local news will air from 5pm to 6pm, whilst the usual entertainment schedule will then resume in different time slots to originally planned. Ninja Warrior UK: Race for Glory will air at 6pm, followed by The Masked Dancer at 6.50pm. The Voice UK will then follow suit at 8pm, whilst Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? will air in the 9.10pm slot. All the programmes were pre-recorded before the Queen's passing. The news will then take over.
