Panorama and how the BBC views it.

The long running BBC news strand Panorama has hit the headlines again due it's investigation into tax havens and how many high profile individual and groups use them. Yet at times the BBC has treated the programme in a very curious manner. Since it's inception in 1953 has every now and again made headlines, in a hoax it transmitted a report about spaghetti being grown on tress. Of course as a hard news programme it has hit the headlines itself most famously in 1995 an interview with Princess Diana had her remarking of her marriage to the Prince of Wales ' there were three of us in that marriage' referring of course to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Yet at times it is seen as non-attractive viewers, in the 1970s when told his sit-com Bless This House was to go out on a Monday night the actor Sid James was delighted as he known it would go against Panorama and draw a large audience. However things changed when Michael Grade became controller of BBC1 and moved Panorama to 9:30 pm after the 9'0 clock news. It stayed there until 1997 despite the grumbling of Grade' successors in the role at having 70 minutes of unbroken news when the then acting controller Mark Thompson moved it to 10 pm. in 2000 due to schedule changes iniatied by then Director-General Greg Dyke, Panorama (which had always been on a Monday) was moved to a late night Sunday slot and less editions were made. However in 2007 Panorama returned to Monday nights due to an edict from the BBC Board of Governors, although it was put an slot opposite the second Monday night episode of Coronation Street. However the one thing that can be said of Panorama is that it has stood the test of time while other programmes of it's ilk like World in Action and This Week have fallen by the way side.