Question Time (TV programme) being taken off the air, and the death of an audience member who collapsed while recording. The programme continued to enjoy good ratings during this period, notably on the day of Margaret Thatcher's resignation on 22 November 1990, which featured two different panels over two editions. David Dimbleby was chosen to succeed Peter Sissons as the programme’s presenter in 1994, after the BBC decided to hold two pilot show auditions between Dimbleby and Jeremy Paxman with two different audiences and two different panels. For a brief period under Dimbleby’s chairmanship in the mid-1990s there were a number of variations to
Question Time British National Party controversy watched by over 8 million people, the highest in the 30-year history of "Question Time", and nearly triple the programme's normal audience of two to three million. In terms of share of audience, the broadcast represented over 50% of the total audience share on the night, surpassing the previous record of 30% achieved on the same 14 May 2009 show. The Griffin edition squeezed the audience of "Newsnight" (BBC Two) to 300,000 viewers compared to its normal 700,000 to 1 million, while a repeat showing of "Piers Morgan's Life Stories" on ITV1 attracted 700,000 viewers, a 5% share. "The Times"