The supervising producer of SBS's flagship international current affairs program, Dateline, has launched an extraordinary attack on the networks director of news and current affairs, Jim Carroll.

"While the pundits debate how much will be cut from the budgets of the public broadcasters by the government's Expenditure Review Committee, one decision is certain: the SBS program Dateline in its present form is for the axe," Dateline's supervising producer Alan Hogan wrote in an opinion piece published by Crikey.

Anjali Rao, presenter of Dateline on SBS. The program faces an uncertain future Credit:Marco Del Grande

The comments come as SBS faces significant budget cuts under the governments expenditure review, the same review which has forced cuts at the ABC.

The networks will share up to $300 million in budget cuts over the next five years. But an SBS spokeswoman said that the cuts to Dateline where unrelated to the review.