Thames Television, which makes the programme, has been asked to come up with different ideas on how to refresh the format.

BBC: This is Your Life faces axe

The BBC Northern Ireland programme Spotlight and, more famously, the Thames television documentary 'Death on the Rock' questioned the official version of events and asked why the IRA unit had been killed instead of arrested.

BBC: Northern Ireland

The Carlton boss's coup in snatching the licence for London weekday television from under the nose of Thames TV boss Richard Dunn, was largely down to his knack of knowing just how to pitch a deal.

BBC: Green keeps growing