Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Austin Mitchell (Labour), on Tuesday, 24 October 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 48 members in total.
CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES ON BBC1
That this House condemns the decision by BBC1 to move its flagship current affairs programme Panorama from Monday to Sunday and reduce the number of editions; expresses its concerns that there is now no serious current affairs programming on BBC1 in weekday peak time; further notes the concentration on soaps, drama and quiz shows in the new BBC1 schedule to the exclusion of serious public service programming; and calls on the BBC's Board of Governors to reverse this decision and return Panorama to weekday peak time on BBC1.
Amendments
The Early day motion has received an amendment.
- CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMMES ON BBC1 (1077A1)
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The Early day motion has received an amendment
sponsored by
Evan Harris
(primary, Liberal Democrat) and tabled on Wednesday, 1 November 2000.
It has been signed by
1 members in total.
- at end insert '; and believes that some of the excellent BBC science programmes currently scheduled on BBC2 would benefit from being shown on BBC1.'.
Secondary information
- Type
- Early day motion
- Reference
- 1077
- 1077A1
- Session
- 1999-00
- Subjects
- BBC Broadcasting programmes Television Panorama
- Link
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