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BBC business programme Working Lunch will no longer be broadcast from the end of July, it has been announced.Current affairs digest GMT with George Alagiah will replace the show in its early afternoon slot on BBC Two.
There are also plans for new business programmes to go out at the weekend on the BBC News Channel and BBC 5 live.
Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth said closing the show was a "difficult decision" because the team worked so "so creatively and passionately".
"We hope to do everything we can to continue serving the audience reached by Working Lunch."
'Always sad'
A BBC statement added: "The size of the Working Lunch audience has suffered a slow but steady decline since 2001.
"A re-launch of Working Lunch in October 2008 has failed to reverse the audience decline which now appears to be stable.
"It's always sad when a programme reaches the end of its life cycle, but our business coverage has never been about one programme."
Working Lunch began in 1994 and has been presented by a selection of well-known names including Adrian Chiles, Paddy O'Connell and Adam Shaw.
Chiles, who recently announced he was quitting The One Show, left Working Lunch in 2007 to work on the BBC One teatime programme on a full-time basis.This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.