Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme) Sixty Minutes (UK TV programme) Sixty Minutes is a news and current affairs programme which ran each weekday at 5:40pm between 24 October 1983 to 27 July 1984 on BBC1. It replaced the "Nationwide" programme, and like "Nationwide", it also integrated the BBC regional news programmes into a single magazine programme. However, the BBC's News department stoutly maintained its independence from colleagues in Current Affairs, and the first 15 minutes of news was almost a separate programme, followed by 20 minutes from BBC regional news before the final 25 minutes of national current affairs. Accordingly, the format was unwieldy, with
This Week (2003 TV programme) This Week (2003 TV programme) This Week is a British current affairs and politics TV programme, screened on Thursday evenings on BBC One. It is hosted by former "Sunday Times" editor Andrew Neil, with a panel of two commentators, one each from the right and left of the political spectrum. The show was introduced on 16 January 2003, along with "The Daily Politics", after a major review of BBC political programmes. It replaced the nightly "Despatch Box" (1998–2002), for which Andrew Neil had been the sole presenter in its later years, and which, in turn, had been a replacement for