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The BBC is not remembered or cherished for its daytime output - it never has been and it never will be.

It has been 32 years of middle-of-the-road, non-licence-fee-justifying dross for the main part.

It is better to divert the talent, funding, and resources to those areas for which the BBC is rightly revered.

Use the daytime to stick on archive material, news, and educational/public service programmes.

You obviously lack any sort of quality filter if you think, to paraphrase you, that "a daytime One Show would (be) a very worthy programme." Feel bad for you.

I mean The One Show is worthy in terms of content. It more than ticks the PSB box in the evenings so why not in the mornings?

No it's not exactly the jewel in it's output and yes a lot of it isn't fondly remembered but then it's had a lot of shows in daytime (and a fair few flops) unlike ITV which has had a few successful ones.

But thing is that their current format of daytime programmes is successful and gets better ratings. And it does that while offering an alternative including PSB content, which includes 'worthy' live stuff at 9:15

TBH, Inspector Sands, I don't personally believe that the One Show ticks the PSB box in the evenings either. It's a low budget, intellectually-flat, bland mishmash of Nationwide and Wogan.

On the daytime front, I can't remember which ITV executive said it but is there really a need for series 24 of Homes Under The Hammer or series 83 of Bargain Hunt?

The BBC is spreading itself too thin and, in an era of licence fee negotiations which I desperately want it to succeed in, it needs to focus on providing as much quality content as possible.

Stuff it can sell around the world for a fortune and stuff which excites the peoples of the UK.

It fits the ethos of Educate, Inform and Entertain.

The topical packages and consumer items inform.
The feature packages educate.
The bits between them entertain.

It does all those things in an accessible way, while ticking the regional production box. It's not the most highbrow or exciting but its early evening BBC One and it does all the above to a decent audience 5 nights a week

Its worth pointing out that in its first incarnation it was a "Nationwide 2" with handover to the local news.

Classic tv forum. Make stuff I want to watch and ignore other viewers.

Same argument could be said for Series 32 of This Morning or whatever we're up to... And I note ITV are (or were) sticking "S30 Ep 67" or whatever on the EPG entries for it too. And up until last year, 17 series of Jeremy Kyle and counting...

My actual point went went way over your head. Sorry for your lack of comprehension.

Agreed. Neil, but ITV and other broadcasters don't enjoy the extraordinary privilege of being funded by a compulsory license fee.

I am a happy license fee payer and I want a world class BBC.

However, the BBC should back off from aggressively competing during times of the schedule when commercial rivals who are subject to taxation find it hardest to make money and attract an audience.

The chances of BBC One replacing their daytime programmes with ancient repeats and educational shows is zero

Agreed.

Aping commercial broadcasters isn’t a recipe for licence fee success. Just another bullet for the detractors.

Alas, I agree, Jonwo.