11-09-2023, 03:10 PM
Honestly, I'd rather they just axed it outright instead of putting it through the indignity of becoming yet another generically formatted panel-based politics discussion programme. It's already lost most of its foreign news reporting in the last decade or so, getting rid of the policy analysis and investigations gets rid of its remaining USPs and basically renders it purposeless.
Better to take the savings and spend it on something like a reformatted News at Ten. With the proposed changes to the One, they could market the BBC One bulletins as three separate newshours - live and developing news in the UK at One; a summary of the day's national and regional news at Six; an in-depth look at political and international news at Ten. It wouldn't be ideal, but just anything but more blathering on.
Better to take the savings and spend it on something like a reformatted News at Ten. With the proposed changes to the One, they could market the BBC One bulletins as three separate newshours - live and developing news in the UK at One; a summary of the day's national and regional news at Six; an in-depth look at political and international news at Ten. It wouldn't be ideal, but just anything but more blathering on.