Instead of promoting both shows to Prime Time, the BBC has scrapped both. Odd. I suppose it's different strokes for different folks. But as I watch dozens of brain dead quiz shows often fronted by bimbos who cannot speak and only care about makeup, handbags and shoes (all vital topics, don't get me wrong), I realise I'm in a tiny minority.

The hardest talk you'll get now will be Loose Women, Graham Norton, and some no talent being grilled by Ant and Dec after leaving an entirely fake jungle in some studio in Essex. Keep the Great Unwashed at arm's length, deep fry their walnut brains, then take away their heating and food whilst they are distracted by whistles and bells.

Daytime TV in the UK is simply abysmal!

It's a real shame about Hard Talk, as it was excellent. I've never watched Click, as I'm not interested in IT, but clips I've seen looked good. I suppose axing them, just as they axed another interesting programme, Dateline London, is all about saving money. Perhaps next on the chopping block will be Newsnight, Panorama and Question Time. Another BBC programme I like is the Travel Show, but I've noticed that in recent months, they've stopped doing a segment-style programme fronted by a series of regular presenters and just a one-topic programme with one unfamiliar presenter, so I wonder if that's due to cutbacks there too.

Al Gershwin wrote:
Daytime TV in the UK is simply abysmal!

Daytime TV in the UK used to be the best when it broadcast programmes for schools and colleges, not forgetting the early morning Open University as well. The stuff they used to show for children at school on terrestrial TV on both BBC, ITV and latterly Ch4 was more grown up and informative than anything they spew out for adults nowadays.

Still, nobody has to watch it, and I wouldn't waste my life trying to.

I agree with JK on Hard Talk and Click. I always thought Click was a great example of a show that suited the main channel on BBC1 or BBC2, not as some filler on a news channel, it was odd how it just stayed there. I used to watch it a lot, but haven't in maybe 5 years, only recently noticed it was still showing actually. Surprised they've axed it, not really. Spencer Kelly must be devastated that his global gravy train on the licence fee is coming to an end, it was beginning to look a bit like that to me with him always jetting off to some decent location for the latest tech conference or exhibition.

Why don't the BBC bring back Tomorrow's World? There's never been more to talk about for a show like that, and Spencer would make a good presenter on a return of that show which should never have been dropped.

When you think of all the really great iconic shows that the BBC has got rid of they should be ashamed of themselves. The price of everything but the value of nothing springs to mind.....but at least they keep Eastenders going even though almost nobody now watches soaps and the stories are unrealistic drivel. Can't get rid of that long past its best stale old shite can they, or the boreathon that is Comic Relief, yawn.

It was the last ever Blue Peter - live - last week. It will now be "on line" and pre-recorded only.

Open University was great and the school programmes were mature despite being aimed at kids.

UK viewership on soaps is getting lower and lower but they are shown around the world so other broadcasters pay ITV and BBC for them.

Soap writers have run out of ideas and how much drama can one street, most people would have packed up and moved. A lot of soap actors my sister has met via her job said they are deluded and think they are important. Tell them you never heard of them they throw a fit and get blotchy.

Tomorrow's World was interesting but very few of the products landed in stores. I wonder if the MSM and far left will have to bow down to Musk if more of his products are out.

I wonder if Neuralink will make the paralysed to walk, jive and boogie again.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewk49j7j1po

Rich wrote:
The stuff they used to show for children at school on terrestrial TV on both BBC, ITV and latterly Ch4 was more grown up and informative than anything they spew out for adults nowadays.
This old clip from Blue Peter that I came across recently reflects that perfectly.

steveimp wrote:
It was the last ever Blue Peter - live - last week. It will now be "on line" and pre-recorded only.

No more Lulu the elephant moments crapping all over the studio floor then, or out of control girl guide bonfires smoking the place out!

Most people already think Blue Peter ended a few years ago now anyway, they've wrecked something they should have cherished anyway. I saw this news yesterday. But scheduled TV is now dying rapidly and therefore it goes without saying that most live shows will therefore become redundant too.

Wonderful example Jo. 1976 was about the time I probably began watching Blue Peter all the time. I rarely missed one. It wasn't just that some children were watching it, but that most children probably were...or Magpie, but that wasn't on the same days I don't think. People like Lesley Judd and the others on there always seemed like your very sensible much older brother or sister or uncle or aunt (even John Noakes!) who talked to you on the same level as them. In recent years childrens presenters began talking down to them like daft idiotic annoying immature siblings instead. I don't know why that happened.