BBC Scotland has revealed more details about its new weekly current affairs programme.
To be called Timeline, it will begin on January 26 and start between 7.30pm and 8pm on Thursday's on BBC Two.
The new show is being launched after the BBC cancelled Scotland 2016, the nightly show on BBC 2 which lost out in the ratings contest to STV's Scotland Tonight.
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Scotland Tonight has an average audience of 85,000 compared to the now-cancelled BBC show's 35,000.
The new weekly show will be presented by the BBC's experienced presenters Glenn Campbell and Shereen Nanjiani.
Gary Smith, BBC Scotland's head of news, said Timeline would be "the weekly centrepiece of a new engagement with our audience."
He said that the public would help shape the agenda of the programme which is to have a "distinctive online and social media presence."
On the title of the show, Mr Smith said: "A timeline is our go-to for information, for news, for what we care about.
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"It's how we find out what's interesting and relevant to our lives.
"A timeline connects people.
"It brings them together to share stories, experience and opinions. It connects young and old, the ordinary that can become exceptional.
"Timeline is a programme that will do just that."
STV’s Scotland Tonight is the most watched current affairs programme in Scotland and celebrated its fifth anniversary in September.
The BBC Scotland 2016 show began in 2014 for the Scottish independence referendum but failed to generate large audiences.
BBC Scotland is still mulling the future of plans for a new Scottish Six evening news bulletin
Recently Donalda MacKinnon, the new director of BBC Scotland, said the corporation wants to improve the "relevance" of its evening news bulletin, and tackle what she regards as "deficits" in news coverage at present.
She said it is a "fair assumption" that BBC Scotland's news output will change in 2017.
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The director said that decision, on whether it will produce an hour-long Scottish evening news programme, will come within weeks.
The final decision on the Scottish Six, she said, will be taken by Tony Hall, director-general of the corporation, with input from herself and Ken MacQuarrie, former director of BBC Scotland and now the BBC's head of nations and regions.
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