Film <insert year here> axed

It was a bit niche & worthy sometimes but there was nothing wrong with BBC One bringing something like that to the masses.

BBC One has lost a lot of niche type of programming which made it distinctive. Practically everything BBC One nowadays is heavily mainstream.

It's typical BBC, isn't it - run a programme into the ground and then axe it, claiming dwindling ratings mean that it's no longer viable.

It's far from just the BBC that's done that!

For example it's partly how Brookside and The Bill ended too.

Very true. Must be a thing about TV executives in general - the term 'new broom syndrome' springs to mind. Actually, I think this quote from Dead Ringers sums it up:

Indeed. The Sky at Night has been relegated from BBC One to BBC Four, for example.

I doubt most people even realised Claudia Winkleman had left, or indeed it was still going. It's axe does make sense for all sorts of reasons as the BBC review films better elsewhere within the corporation, plus it probably ticks a DQF box as I doubt it's budget will be going to another late night show.

It was hardly in a primetime slot even in its heyday, Barry Norman used to complain about it going out really late in the eighties and nineties. Here's an obvious example - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1994-11-07#at-23.45
It probably had a better slot now than it did then.



But in primetime, rather than at 1am.