This Week

BBC Television current affairs and politics programme

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Network: BBC One
Cast: Michael Portillo
, Diane Abbott
Country of origin: United Kingdom

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This Week is a British current affairs and politics TV programme. It was screened late on Thursday evenings on BBC One and hosted by former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil, with a panel of two commentators, one from the right and the other from the left of the political spectrum. The show was introduced on 16 January 2003, as was the Daily Politics, after a major review of BBC political programmes. It replaced the nightly Despatch Box (1998–2002), for which Neil had been the sole presenter in its later years. In February 2019, following Neil's decision to step down as host, the BBC announced that This Week would end in July 2019.

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Website: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mvhd
Social media followers: 62,851(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 78602972
64,774(February 21, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 78602972
68,061(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 78602972
71,079(April 19, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 78602972

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