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I do think Newsnight will likely end up in the firing line by the time Kirsty Wark eventually steps down, as besides Victoria Derbyshire, there aren't any other presenters who aren't shared with other areas (Faisal Islam, Christian Fraser) and the dedicated NN reporting team has been slimmed down in recent years

I expect it has had a bit of a stay of execution due to the recent cuts elsewhere to UK news output and having already suffered substantial cuts itself over the last decade anyway, but I would not at all be surprised if it was axed (likely with its functions 'transferred' elsewhere) within the next decade. After a few lucky escapes in previous rounds of cuts, it does feel like the obvious next step in a future round - not helped by the fact it seems to struggle as a 'newsmaker' these days (which is, of course, ultimately the prior cuts' fault). Though, to be honest, if the choice is between it being axed or gutted and turned into another Politics Live-style crapfest, I'll take the former.