The dropping of the BBC regional tv show Inside Out and the extended break for the regional Sunday Politics contributions are rising to the top of Tim Davie's in-tray. The great and not-so-great have written to both the current and the incoming DG urging a full return for Inside Out. There are some strange bedfellows - Rick Wakeman, Debbie McGee, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Hitchens, Edwina Currie, Terry Christian, Chris Broad and Lee Child are among the 125 signatories.
Press Gazette suggests just 30 people are involved in the making of the 11 regional shows - already less regional as they share stories across two or three BBC regions.
BBC News has reconfirmed that its on the hunt for 450 job cuts; so BBC England may have to sort this out internally. A sharp DG might ask if there was not more the well-provided daily regional output could do to support and subsidise these weekly programmes, with help, perhaps, from Rhodri Talfan Davies' taskforce trying to discover how on earth the BBC kept going with 92% of staff working from home.
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