Natalie Bennett Party's support increased again. The seven-way debate ultimately took place on 2 April, with Bennett present. Bennett came third in the election to the Labour and Conservative candidates, and in 2016, at the end of her second two-year term, did not stand for re-election as leader. At the party's 2016 autumn conference in Birmingham, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were elected as co-leaders of the party in a job-share arrangement. On 7 October 2016, it was announced that Bennett had been selected to contest the Sheffield Central constituency for the Green Party in the 2017 UK general election. Bennett's candidacy
Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town met in New York to discuss ideas for what the series would be like. The resulting programme would be called "Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town" in the United Kingdom and other areas of the world where Thames Television owned it, while it would be called "This Is Music" in the United States and in parts of the world where Bennett's company owned it. Bennett had control over the format and other details of the show and felt he was on a mission of "bringing good music back to television." Television shows in the variety format and hosted