Tonight (TV programme) Tonight (TV programme) Tonight (often referred to as "The Tonight Programme") is a British current affairs programme, produced by ITV Studios (formerly Granada Television) and ITN for the ITV network, replacing the long-running investigative series "World in Action" in 1999. Previously airing twice-weekly, on Monday and Friday evenings at 8.00pm (ITV Wales, STV and UTV would often air the programme at different times or different days, to make way for regional programming), the show runs the gamut from human interest-led current affairs to investigative journalism. "Tonight" has conducted interviews with a plethora of political and public figures, including U.S. President
RTÉ News and Current Affairs the last time in 1964. It was replaced by Frank Hall's "Newsbeat", a news and current affairs programme that focused more on the light-hearted stories from around the country. In 1966 Maurice O'Doherty joined the newsroom as newsreader. Later that same year the station's new flagship news programme was broadcast for the first time. "Seven Days" had a production team with people such as Eoghan Harris, Brian Cleeve, Brian Farrell and John O'Donoghue. In 1967 the programme merged with another, "Division", and became "7 days". When Radio Éireann and Telefís Éireann merged, RTÉ News was expanded, providing coverage to new