For a few very quiet minutes at 10 p.m. last night, a broadcast news nightmare unfolded live on the BBC News Channel, as anchor Huw Edwards spent a long four minutes sitting silently, on camera, waiting for a pre-show systems crash to be resolved. “There was so much going on in the gallery that no one bothered to tell me that I was actually on air,” Edwards said later. “That was a bit of information I could have done with. But I had a sense I was, so I tried to behave myself.” BBC News editor Paul Royall said in a tweet that the director had to oversee the switch to a back-up system to get the show online again. Skip ahead to 4:00 if you just want to see Edwards’ recovery.