Top BBC shows like Doctor Who, Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing face being privatised under new cost-cutting plans at the corporation. Hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of TV programmes currently produced by the BBC will no longer be protected from outside competition under reforms announced by director general Tony Hall today. In return, Lord Hall wants the BBC's in-house production company to be free to make shows directly for other broadcasters, particularly in America, in a bid to generate millions of pounds. Shows like Top Gear are currently made by the BBC's in-house production arm. Under proposals by the corporation's chief Lord Hall, BBC producers will have to compete with private companies
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BBC chief Tony Hall wants private companies to compete to make shows
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At the moment 50% of programmes have to be made in-house
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But the BBC's own production arm  to make shows for US networks
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BBC insists reforms are not privatisation as profits will stay at Corporation
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Channel 4 boss Lords Burns says he would buy programmes from BBC
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But he says reforms don't go far enough and questions licence fee
The BBC insisted its top programmes would not be 'privatised', as all the revenue generated would come back to the @placeholder and ploughed back into more programming.