It sounds a pretty radical plan: ditch BBC2's daytime schedule and replace it with rolling news before 7pm. But faced with a licence-fee freeze until 2017 and the need to make big savings, the BBC is considering it as one option. Goodbye Diagnosis Murder and Flog It!; hello BBC News Channel live feed.

There's no immediate danger: final proposals will be put before the BBC Trust in early summer. Which gives us plenty of time to catchup on BBC2's daytime output – which this week includes repeats of Meerkat Manor, Nature's Top 40 and Helicopter Heroes, alongside To Buy or Not to Buy, Royal Upstairs Downstairs and a steady diet of three antiques programmes per day.

In fact I quite like an antiques programme; a good dose of Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday evening is the televisual equivalent of doing your homework or ironing your shirts in preparation for the week ahead, only featuring decidedly more pieces of almost valuable but disappointingly chipped bits of crockery. But three antiques shows a day? Does Britain even have that many old plates?

No word on what will happen to the nation's auction houses and antiques fairs if Flog It!, Cash in the Celebrity Attic and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is were to disappear from screens. Let alone the BBC's army of experts.

Some BBC2 shows might be saved – the Sunday Times reports that Eggheads could find a new home on BBC1 for instance, and The Daily Politics would fit with BBC2's new identity if it became a daytime rolling news channel. But Pointless (that's a quiz show, for those who tend not to be in during the day) would be for the axe, along with One Man and His Campervan and Great British Railway Journeys.

There seems little value for viewers in making BBC2 a duplicate of the BBC News Channel pre 7pm; digital takeup is now such that most of those who want access to the channel probably have it by now. The question is whether ditching the whole of BBC2 daytime in order to make 20% budget savings is less bad for viewers than making deep cuts elsewhere.

You can't help but feel that what the BBC really needs is a proper daytime overhaul. Yes, there's Moving On and Land Girls. But the rest of the BBC1 daytime schedule is hardly a smorgasbord of delights: today's lineup includes Homes Under the Hammer, Doctors, Wreck or Ready, Escape to the Country and – incredibly – another two antiques programmes, Cash in the Attic and Bargain Hunt. Some would argue that we don't need one channel – let alone two – with that kind of daytime schedule.

It would be nice to think that if BBC2 daytime is axed, BBC1 daytime will be improved. Perhaps. But there's also the question of what happens after 3pm, when children's shows kick in on BBC1. Are the BBC just going to abandon adult programming for a couple of hours in the late afternoon unless you want news? Really?

Your thoughts please: would you be happy to see the back of BBC2 daytime? All BBC daytime? None of it? Is this the least bad option? Leave your ideas and suggestions below.