[DTV]

I think it's right that what has traditionally been Three and Four content moves back to BBC Two, a channel which has really lost its identity over the past 20 years.

Isn't that the case - really hit by the twin bullets of losing a sizeable chunk of its remit to digital services in the early-2000s, then by taking the brunt of the cuts in the last 15 years - it really is shocking that nearly 40% of the reduction in BBC broadcast content spend (including radio) in the last decade has come solely from BBC Two. Outside of (most of) weekday evenings, a husk of a channel and a fraction of what it was.

Even in areas where it hasn't particularly lost remit, it's been cut to shreds - News and Current Affairs output 25 years ago consisted of three daily political/parliamentary programmes, two daily news summaries, a daily consumer/business affairs programme, Newsnight, weekly regional current affairs programmes, a Saturday evening news and sport bulletin, a weekly international affairs documentary, Sunday regional political programmes and The Money Programme. Now, you basically have Politics Live and Newsnight, plus some News channel simulcasts.

I mean, even consolidating one of the channels into it would breathe a bit more life into it.