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This is Your Life is facing the axe after 48 years because it has no appeal with the younger generation, The Sun reports today.
The BBC have given programme makers Pearson "one last chance" to revamp the show, which could result in the replacement of Michael Aspel as presenter.
"The problem is that the new breed of celebrities like Noel refuse to appear," said an insider. "And there are only so many times you can do the likes of Bob Monkhouse and Lionel Blair. It is beginning to look far too outdated."
This is Your Life first aired on the BBC in 1955 but was dropped nine years later. In 1969, host Eamonn Andrews accompanied its move to ITV. Aspel took over when Andrews died in 1987, and has been with the show ever since. It was poached back by the BBC in 1993.
The BBC have given programme makers Pearson "one last chance" to revamp the show, which could result in the replacement of Michael Aspel as presenter.
"The problem is that the new breed of celebrities like Noel refuse to appear," said an insider. "And there are only so many times you can do the likes of Bob Monkhouse and Lionel Blair. It is beginning to look far too outdated."
This is Your Life first aired on the BBC in 1955 but was dropped nine years later. In 1969, host Eamonn Andrews accompanied its move to ITV. Aspel took over when Andrews died in 1987, and has been with the show ever since. It was poached back by the BBC in 1993.
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