This Week (Thames Television TV series)

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This Week was the name of a weekly current affairs series screened on the ITV network in the United Kingdom, produced for the network by Thames Television. Its most famous edition was Death On The Rock, a documentary so controversial that many believe it directly led to Thames losing their London weekday ITV broadcasting franchise in 1992. The programme was first produced for ITV in January 1956 by Thames' predecessor company, Associated-Rediffusion (later Rediffusion London), and ran for 36 years.

Its presenters read like a Who’s Who of British broadcasting: they included Ludovic Kennedy, James Cameron, Jonathan Dimbleby, Robert Kee, Dan Farson, Jeremy Thorpe (who became leader of the Liberal Party), Kenneth Harris, Desmond Wilcox, Llew Gardner, Bryan Magee, Peter Taylor (noted for his coverage of Northern Ireland), Denis Tuohy, John Morgan, Peter Williams and John Edwards.

For a definitive history of the programme, read "The Angry Buzz" by Patricia Holland (I.B.Taurus, 2005) ISBN 1-84511-051-X

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