The Guardian view on religious broadcasting: imagination and commitment needed | Editorial

BBC television plans to close its religion and ethics section. Will the new approach lead to the Great British Pray Off?The BBC is to close its religion and ethics television studios in Manchester and rely on outside companies to produce its content in future. In some ways this move to external production companies is merely part of the long slow dismembering of the corporation. Songs of Praise, the archetype of an unfashionable BBC programme, is now to be made by two independent firms, using al