The UK government has distanced itself from claims that it is looking to intervene with the scheduling of flagship programmes.
During the weekend, the Mail on Sunday quoted a government source backed state intervention with the public broadcaster’s schedule to reduce “competitive scheduling”, claiming: “It would be obvious when ITV had a flagship programme they were hoping to get high ratings for and where it would be unfair for the BBC to take it on head-to-head”
Reports suggested that BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing could be moved to avoid it clashing with ITV and other commercial broadcaster’s prime-time output.
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Source: The Drum
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