BBC Cuts Back Blue Peter Episodes

Blue Peter is to be cut from three episodes a week to two, the BBC has confirmed.

The BBC said that the move would allow the show to “concentrate on more compelling and ambitious content”.

A spokesperson for the BBC said: “Over the past year Blue Peter‘s daily presence has been reduced from five days a week to four days and then to three. This reduction is largely the loss of repeated and re-versioned content.

“Because of the success of this experiment and our belief that sourcing better quality content over a shorter run will provide viewers with a better Blue Peter, we have decided to reduce the number of shows to two days a week.”

As well as the reduction in episodes, Konnie Huq, who will become Blue Peter‘s longest-serving female presenter in December, has confirmed she is to leave the show next year.

In March, it was revealed that Blue Peter was the latest in a line of programmes to become involved in the premium rate phone-line scandal (see Blue Peter Fakes Winner, Joins Phone-In Blacklist).

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