BBC's Working Lunch show to end

BBC commercial operation programme Working Lunch will no longer be broadcast from the finish of July, it has been announced.

BBC World current affairs ready GMT with George Alagiah will replace the uncover in its 1230 slot on BBC Two.

There have been also plans for brand new commercial operation programmes to go out during the weekend on the BBC News Channel as well as BBC 5 live.

Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth pronounced shutting the uncover was the "difficult decision" because the group worked so "so originally as well as passionately".

"We hope to do all you can to go on portion the assembly reached by Working Lunch."

'Always sad'

A BBC statement added: "The size of the Working Lunch assembly has suffered the slow but solid decrease since 2001.

"A re-launch of Working Lunch in October 2008 has failed to retreat the assembly decrease that right away appears to be stable.

Working Lunch began in 1994

"It's regularly unhappy when the programme reaches the finish of its hold up cycle, but the commercial operation coverage has never been about the single programme."

Working Lunch began in 1994 as well as has been presented by the preference of well-known names including Adrian Chiles, Paddy O'Connell as well as Adam Shaw.

Chiles, who voiced final week that he was quitting the BBC, left Working Lunch in 2007 to work on BBC One teatime programme The One Show on the full-time basis.

Working Lunch has not long ago been attracting an assembly of around 300,000 viewers.

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