ON Friday July 23, ITV1 Calendar News and BBC1 Look North gave us sneak previews of the reopening of the wonderful open-air theatre at Scarborough (the biggest in Europe, so we are led to believe) and talked to guest artists Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras.

It really looked a spectacular setting with a fine evening in prospect; the full house audience could look forward to a great night.

What a pity neither BBC nor ITV chose to visit for the full programme and to show everyone this magnificent setting.

I think viewing figures would have been high and would have represented money well spent, instead of all these repeats.

Roy J Hields, Fellwood Grove, Acomb, York.