The future of the BBC will come under intense scrutiny this weekend amid a big restructuring at the world's largest publicly-funded broadcaster.

A new management team led by Mark Thompson - the former Channel 4 chief executive who replaced Greg Dyke as director-general earlier this year - plans to use Edinburgh's annual television festival to justify an overhaul involving cost-cutting, tighter editorial controls, new corporate governance rules, as well as reviews on programme spending, commercial activities, on-line operations and public service output.