The BBC news and current affairs departments are planning a series of hour-long, monthly “big issue” programmes for BBC Two that will harness the corporation’s vast newsgathering and outside broadcast capabilities.
The weekday, primetime series -with the working title Insight – will seek to analyse themes such as pensions, immigration and demographics. The show will make ample use of
specialist correspondents, such as
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economics editor Evan Davis, director of BBC News Richard Sambrook told Press Gazette.
The programmes will seek to provide a level of analysis not possible within the daily news bulletins.
“It’ll be a series that makes the most of BBC newsgathering resources,” he said. “Last year was about sorting out BBC One news bulletins. Now it’s BBC Two’s turn,” Sambrook added.
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The series will come under the auspices of BBC head of current affairs Peter Horrocks.
“It is exciting to be given an opportunity to do thorough journalism in such a prominent part of the BBC Two schedule. It will enable us to do ambitious current affairs on complex subjects, in a way that no other UK channel will be able to rival,” he said.
The Money Programme is the only weekday peek time current affairs show on BBC Two.
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