No, that's not what I saw. Firstly, not all Sky ad slots were placeholders; and secondly, "Brenda" (damn, what's that from?) popped her clogs ages ago. The wall-to-wall BBC propaganda ended three days ago. TV presenters are no longer wearing black suits and ties. Newspapers no longer carry a dozen grovelling headlines on the same subject.

Not a reader of Private Eye then? This should help on the Brenda question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_and_organisatio...

You may enjoy Private Eye, worth buying a trial copy.

Thanks. I think I last bought a copy of Private Eye about 50 years ago; Ingrams was the editor, and Paul Foot was still writing for them. I loved the schoolboy gags (I was a schoolboy), but they put out some very serious content that the MSM wouldn't touch.

The image was that the PE journalists basically spent their working day hanging out in Fleet Street bars, shooting the breeze with journos from mainstream papers, and collecting gossip. I have no idea how accurate that picture is.

It was mildly annoying that they dropped the ads, but kept the breaks, just showing a card saying ’no ads here’ for several minutes at a time. I guess they went for the minimal effort approach to maintain timings.