Underplayed Gems

ITV News at Ten (1967)

ITV News at Ten poster
Genre
news
Country
United Kingdom
Length
19 seasons, 63 episodes
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is the flagship evening news programme on ITV in the United Kingdom. It presents in-depth national and international news coverage along with human interest stories. The show helped make several television journalists into well-known public figures.

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What happens

ITV News at Ten (or more commonly News at Ten) is the flagship evening news programme on British television network ITV, produced by ITN and founded by news editor Geoffrey Cox on 3 July 1967. The bulletin was the first permanent 30-minute news broadcast in the United Kingdom, and although initially scheduled for only thirteen weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, the bulletin proved to be highly popular with audiences and became a fixture of the ITV schedule. News at Ten rose to popularity for its winning combination of in-depth, analytical news coverage and populist stories, as well as for its use of Big Ben's chimes to separate news headlines in its opening sequence. It simultaneously helped popularise newscasters such as Alastair Burnet, Andrew Gardner, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Anna Ford, John Suchet, Mark Austin, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald into well-known television personalities. When the bulletin was axed in 1999 in order for primetime entertainment programming to air uninterrupted, there was a public outcry. ITV reluctantly brought the programme back – under the name ITV News at Ten – in 2001, airing it at 10 pm for a minimum of three nights per week, but eventually replaced it with the ITV News at 10.30 in 2004. It was not until January 2008 that News at Ten was reinstated to the ITV schedule. The programme has been anchored by Tom Bradby since 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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