BBC axe Crimewatch

It's an expensive programme to make and there is pressure on all resources. There is little slack in any channel budgets and not a great deal of flexible studio space to make it - unless its to come from an old trailer parked up in someone's car park as per the last series. Probably just best to let it die and reflect on the lack of money within the BBC to do anything like this.

The climate isn't on imagination or quality journalism & research it's for dramas and the like. Something the BBC can sell around the world to refill coffers.

Guess Crimewatch joins a list of long running shows pointlessly revamped then axed about a year later.

So the BBC are measuring the success or failure of Crimewatch in viewing figures, and not about how useful the calls are for the Police in investigating crimes?

With the current interest in crime dramas and documentaries Crimewatch is exactly the sort of show broadcasters would be launching if it didn't already exist. I really wouldn't be surprised if ITV revive something along the lines of Most Wanted.

They're quite rightly getting a hammering for this decision. Seriously, these days it's as if the Corporation is on a death wish.

Well indeed, and the ratings are not a true story anyway, as the BBC used to deliberately place it in the most difficult slots, so it'd appear opposite Broadchurch, opposite I'm a Celeb, it'd turn up during BGT week etc.

Unless tweets and Facebook posts start doing fully filmed reconstructions then social media can't fully replace the show.

Studio 10 in the tower block. Which earlier in the day had produced Business Daily, 6 O'Clock live, LWT News after NAT and then Crime monthly. The link provided earlier is to a special one off documentary, it wasn't usually that format.

Crime Monthly with Penny Smith using the normal Crimewatch esque format.

Granada used to have Crime File as well.

I remember fondly being allowed to stay up late to see crime watch as a child. In those days (late 80s) there was a real urgency to the programme.

Last time I watched crime watch there was so much fannying about, pressing buttons on screens to make things whizz around and other pointless gimmicks, when they started broadcasting from a shed outside, I gave up completely. Shame, but a sign of the times.

I liked it when Kirsty did it and when Sian did it about once, I thought she would be a good replacement, however that last run of it was awful, I bet poor Nick was having nightmares!

I do agree they should have gone back to basics.

Surely Crimewatch would have been a very cheap programme to produce. It's mainly blurry reconstruction shots and interviews with the police, with links from a studio.