Ageless

BBC Director of Content Charlotte Moore faced the rigorous interrogation of Zoe Ball at the Edinburgh TV Festival this morning, focussing on a renewed commitment risk-taking and re-invention.

The evidence on offer wasn't huge. Peaky Blinders's 5th (fifth) season moves from BBC2 to BBC1, after averaging 3.3m viewers over series 4. 60% of signed-in iPlayer views came from under 35s.

In comedy, there's a 6x30m series from Derren 'Benidorm' Litten, set in a karoake bar in Scarborough, and featuring songs of the 80s, which should appeal to the over-50s. Re-invention ? Daft old people doing whacky things - Hold The Sunset, Boomers, Last of the Summer Wine etc.

In documentaries, there's yet another police fly-on-the-wall, Northumberland Cops - six one hour shows. We are told "In style and tone, the series will go way beyond adrenaline-fuelled blue light stories to offer the compelling, surprising and human stories of modern policing against a backdrop of fewer resources and the changing nature of the job". Last year we had "The Met: Policing London"; in Wales, Swansea Police featured in "Police 24/7" and viewers in Scotland got "The Force".

BBC1 gets a new drama in six parts, The Nest. "Dan and Emily are crazy about each other. They live in a huge house in the nicest part of Glasgow and want for nothing. All that’s missing is a baby - and they’ve been trying for years. Through a chance encounter they meet Kaya, an 18 year old from the other side of the city, whose life is as precarious at theirs is comfortable. When Kaya agrees to carry their baby, it feels like they were meant to meet but was it really by chance?"

Can't see much of this shifting the channel's average age below 60.