BBC is set to launch a 'gender-fluid' dating show for YouTube despite having to find £500m in savings

The untitled show is still in development and will be open to 'all genders and sexualities' aged 18 to 26. Strong Watch Studios is expected to film it in London early next month for the BBC's YouTube channel, not television. A casting notice asks: 'Could you be the best of the bunch and get a second date?' The corporation has recently axed several LGBT shows, citing 'significant financial pressures'.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK has quit the BBC for WOW Presents Plus after 11 series.

Dannii Minogue's I Kissed A Boy and I Kissed A Girl were also scrapped this year.

The BBC insists its cuts were 'very difficult choices, none of which have been taken lightly'.