Janice Hadlow has been appointed controller of BBC2 - time to revisit a couple of the ideas on my BBC2 wishlist.
How would BBC2 benefit from Newsnight being shorter? I doubt if the next editor of Newsnight will want to turn it into a 30 minute magazine - but opening up 11pm to new documentaries is a good idea. BBC2's primetime is over-crowded with formulaic factual - Anger is the latest example - so the channel could do with somewhere for fresh ideas.
Maybe the solution would be to trim Newsnight on a Friday and free up the Newsnight Review slot. If so, it could be part of a more substantial overhaul of BBC2's arts, culture and media coverage.
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