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Written by Robert Piercy   
Wednesday, 06 May 2009 11:43
ITV is to axe its long-running flagship arts series The South Bank Show when Melvyn Bragg retires next year. The programme will be axed after more than 30 years on air.

ITV said it "would be looking at new opportunities for arts programming" but confirmed that the programme would go to co-inside with Melvym Bragg stepping down next summer from his ITV role as ITV Studio controller of arts.

ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade, who originally commissioned The South Bank Show while at LWT, said "I am immensely proud that over three decades the South Bank Show has become the benchmark for popular arts programming and has consistently won the admiration of audiences and critics. None of this would have happened without Melvyn who has remained the driving force behind the show and has been a great champion of the programme and of ITV."

The programme got its name  from the name given to of LWT's studions, which were always announced on air as being "on the south bank."

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