A Query of Sport has been axed by the BBC after operating for greater than 50 years, the company revealed tonight.
Making the shock announcement, bosses blamed inflation and dwindling rankings for the reduce of the long-running sports activities quiz present that spanned greater than 1300 episodes.
The choice to halt manufacturing comes lower than a 12 months after the Beeb sacked long-running host Sue Barker – sparking a livid response from its loyal viewers.
A BBC spokesperson informed MailOnline: ’As a consequence of inflation and funding challenges tough selections need to be made, subsequently Query of Sport is at present not in manufacturing in the meanwhile.’
The company confirmed that the model isn’t on the market, hinting that the format may presumably be revived sooner or later.
A Query of Sport has been axed by the BBC after operating for greater than 50 years, the company revealed tonight
Numbers have been dwindling on the sports activities present since long-running presenter Sue Barker left
The present first debuted in 1970, and initially fronted by former Match of the Day reporter David Vine, however is greatest recognized for being offered by Wimbledon semi-finalist Sue Barker, who captained the programme for twenty-four years.
The tennis star joined the programe in 1997 shortly progressing to turn out to be the face of the present.
In 2020, nevertheless, she was ousted in a shock transfer, that the presenter admitted left her feeling ’barely broken’.
’Naively, I would anticipated extra after 24 years,’ she wrote within the Mail following the fallout.
’Do not get me mistaken: I had no downside with being changed,’ she stated. ’Everybody has their day. Producers should at all times have the precise to refresh a programme and take it in a brand new route.
’It was the way in which it was dealt with. It taught me there may be truly no means of leaving a job in a pleasant, nice and useful method, along with your head held excessive.’
The previous tennis star was faraway from the programme with captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell, in order that bosses may draft in contemporary expertise to revamp the long-running sports activities quiz.
Paddy McGuinness was introduced into to exchange Miss Barker in 2021.
Following Miss Barker’s departure, rankings for Query of Sport slumped to an all time low dropping to a mean of 850,000 for final 12 months’s sequence.
One episode on August 19 peaked at 750,000, with the programme being crushed by a Channel 5 present a couple of farm store.
Between 4 and 5 million viewers commonly tuned in when Sue was host earlier than she was given the boot in 2020 when bosses determined to refresh the programme.
MailOnline has contacted the BBC.