| The Politics show | |
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| Genre | Current Affairs & Politics |
| Presented by | Jon Sopel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | January 2003 – 11 December 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Daily Politics |
The Politics Show was an hour long BBC One television political programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sundays, broadcasting usually at midday,.
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During 2000, the then BBC Director General Greg Dyke ordered a review of political output from BBC, which was carried out by Fran Unsworth [1], this lead to a major overhaul of political output in the 2002. A number of flagship programmes were axed included On the Record, Dispatch Box and Westminster live and replaced with new raft of programmes [2]
The Politics Show become the Sunday flagship lunchtime politics show hosted by Jeremy Vine. The show retained On the Record heavyweight agenda and a long-form interview as its centrepiece and contained reports on the big political stories of the week as well as analysing the way these stories will affect people all over the country. The Politics Show also replaced a number of localised political programmes on BBC2, by including a 20-minute opt-out for each of the English regions, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland fronted by a different presenter for each region, looking into how political stories affect the local area.
In September 2005 Jeremy Vine left the show and was replaced by BBC News presenter Jon Sopel [3]. Susanna Reid and Tim Donovan, deputy political editor James Landale and political correspondents Laura Kuenssberg and Jo Coburn have all presented in place of Sopel.
The programme aired for the final time on the 11 December 2011. It will be replaced by Sunday Politics, a weekend version of The Daily Politics, hosted by Andrew Neil in January 2012. [4]
The Politics Show Scotland is BBC Scotland's main political programme broadcast on Sundays. It followed the same format as the UK version until 2007, when it was deceived a major overhaul of Scottish political programmes would take place, which resulted axing of "Politics Scotland" Friday edition and Holyrood both presented by Iain Macwhirter, and incorporating them into new programme. The new format resulted in Scotland taking the first 20-30min of the national broadcast then opted-out to provide a full one hour show analysing the big political stories of the week in Scotland.
The programme will continue to be aired during the replacement Sunday Politics, a weekend version of The Daily Politics, hosted by Andrew Neil in January 2012.
Northern Ireland
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East
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East Midlands
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Wales/Cymru
and Bethan James (Westminster)
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London
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North East & Cumbria
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North West
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South
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South East
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South West
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West
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West Midlands
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N.B. The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire opt-out is broadcast to both Yorkshire and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire regions.