Rejected petition Something For The Weekend Axed

More details

I wish to petition against the BBCs decision to axe BBCs 2 Something For The Weekend programme. This programme is an extremely popular programme and the decision to axe this is confusing. I would like the government to force BBC to provide justified reasoning behind this decision and provide if necessary a breakdown of the accounting process which led to this decision. As a license fee payer I feel this decision has been hasty with significant consultations between relevant parties. The Facebook campaign is gaining steam and support from public and celebrities alike for the same cause to save the programme.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is a matter for the BBC. It is a long-standing principle that the Government does not interfere in programme matters, either on arrangements for scheduling or on content

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 8 January 2012
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.