It is two years since Panorama was shunted out of peak time on BBC1 into exile late on Sunday night. There were one or two protests, but the BBC reassured its critics that ‘we will strengthen the News’. Two years on, the Six o’Clock News has the agenda of a second-rate tabloid newspaper and the Ten o’Clock News is about to be decimated by the departure of its heavyweights, Michael Burck and Peter Sissons.

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