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They gave it a good shot - but as has been said, it was never going to set the heather alight. It's been interesting over the past couple of years how the likes of Martin Geisler and others who were the 'faces' of the The Nine have moved on to other (higher rating) BBC Scotland output.

No doubt we'll see some politicians wail about it and call again for a Scottish Six. Plus, I really doubt you're going to have an audience hungry to watch an hour long Scotland-based programme 6-7; the current set up might not be perfect, but it works.

I'd be far more interested in getting BBC Two Scotland back, and a regular political programme - the early days of devolution (when the powers of Holyrood were fewer) had a far better choice of political programmes from Scotland. Yes, Newsnight Scotland wasn't my first choice back in the day - but looking back, it was better to have that than any of the imitations (Scotland 2014 anyone?) we had since then. There was the original Politics Scotland with Iain Macwhirter (Thursday evenings??), Politics Show Scotland, and of course Holyrood Live.

The new TV/radio podcast mentioned could be quite interesting though. I'm a big fan of BBC Podlitical, so hope they do something along those lines; perhaps a Scottish version of Newscast?