The Politics Show
| The Politics show | |
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| Genre | Current Affairs & Politics |
| Presented by |
Jeremy Vine (2003 - 2005) Jon Sopel (2005-2011) |
| Theme music composer | Simon Lacey (2003–2009) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | January 2003 – 11 December 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | On the Record |
| 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.
The Politics Show was superseded by Sunday Politics, a weekend version of The Daily Politics, which retains some of the elements of the former show.
During 2000, the then BBC Director General Greg Dyke ordered a review of political output from BBC, which was carried out by Fran Unsworth, leading to a major overhaul of political output in the 2002. A number of flagship programmes were cancelled, including On the Record, Despatch Box and Westminster Live and replaced with new programmes.
The Politics Show become the Sunday flagship lunchtime politics show hosted by Jeremy Vine. The show retained On the Record's serious 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 regional 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.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.
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