1 9 7 8 – Current (USA) This hour-long current affairs show from ABC has always featured award-winning journalists covering social issues and current events. The…
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1 9 6 5 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) 1,695 x 30/35/40 minute episodes Following the demise of the long-running BBC show Tonight, Cliff Michelmore…
1 9 6 8 – Current (USA) 1 9 7 9 – Current (Australia) In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new programme, 60 Minutes, as a strategy…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 – current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) Seen on alternate Sundays, Adlai Stevenson Reports gave viewers a perspective on global concerns from Adlai…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 4 (USA) 1 9 7 8 – 1 9 7 9 (USA) One of PBS’s most popular public affairs…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (Australia) 30 minute episodes Radio presenter Howard Craven hosted Australia’s first TV current affairs show for half…
1 9 9 2 – 2 0 0 2 (UK) Departing from the established news and magazine-based format of other breakfast TV shows, The Big Breakfast placed the…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) The clear ancestor of That’s Life, Braden’s Week – which premiered on 9 November 1968 and aired on…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) Selina Scott joined nice “uncle” Frank Bough on BBC1’s Breakfast Time at 6.30 am on 17 January…
1 9 8 9 – Current (USA) Cops features cameras following real-life police officers around their headquarters, on street patrols and raids, at stakeouts, and sometimes even…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 1 (USA) The Facts We Face was initially a five-week series designed to inform the American public of…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 6 (UK) The idea for the Fantasy Football League TV show came from hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel who,…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 6 (UK) 20 minute episodes ITN’s groundbreaking lunchtime news programme First Report was launched t 12.40 pm on…
1 9 6 1 – Current (Australia) Four Corners debuted on the Australian ABC network on 19 August 1961 and went on to become that country’s longest-running…
1 9 5 5 (UK) ITV introduced Free Speech, political cross-talk between Robert Boothby, W J Brown, Michael Foot and historian and writer A J P Taylor,…
1 9 7 5 – Current (USA) This long-running week morning ABC news show debuted at 07:00 on Monday 3 November 1975, replacing the show AM…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Produced by the newly formed TV-am, ITV debuted its first breakfast show on 1 February 1983…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) Produced by Granada’s Head of Light Entertainment Johnny Hamp and debuting on Tuesday 31 August…
