Newsnight

:For the CNN programme see NewsNight with Aaron Brown

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Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22.30 and 23.20 on weekdays on BBC2. Until 1999 it also appeared, in repackaged form, on BBC World Service Television and BBC World.

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The programme's main presenters are Jeremy Paxman, Gavin Esler and Kirsty Wark. More irregular presenters include Jon Sopel, Eddie Mair and the programme's political editor, Martha Kearney. On Friday evenings Newsnight proper gives way at 23.00 to Newsnight Review, a 35-minute slot presented by Mark Lawson, Tom Sutcliffe or Kirsty Wark in which events in the arts are discussed by a panel of pundits.

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Newsnight has been running since 30 January 1980. Peter Snow presented the programme for its first 17 years and still helps out for special broadcasts, such as those covering wars and elections. Other former presenters include Peter Hobday, Charles Wheeler (latterly the BBC's chief reporter in Washington DC), John Tusa, Olivia O'Leary, Francine Stock, Sarah Montague, and Jeremy Vine. Vine's style grew so close to that of the incumbent main presenter, Paxman, that the latter was said to refer to the former as Mini-me.

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NewsNight with Aaron Brown: NewsNight with Aaron Brown, is broadcast on weeknights at 10:00PM (EST)/9:00PM (CST)/8:00PM (MST)/7:00 PM (PST), on CNN and is hosted by Aaron Brown. NewsNight is CNN's only live international news broadcast. It's segments include Morning Papers, The Whip, and Segment 7....

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