14 Facts About Newsnight

Newsnight is BBC Two's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines.

Newsnight began on 28 January 1980 at 22:45, although a 15-minute news bulletin using the same title had run on BBC Two for a 13-month period from 1975 to 1976.

Newsnight was the first programme to be made by means of a direct collaboration between BBC News, then at Television Centre, and the current affairs department, based a short distance away at the now defunct Lime Grove Studios.

Until 1988, the start time of Newsnight was flexible, so BBC2 could screen a film at 21:30 to dovetail with the conclusion of the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1.

Newsnight moved to new facilities at Broadcasting House on 15 October 2012.

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Between 1999 and 2014 on BBC Two Scotland the offshoot, Newsnight Scotland, presented by Gordon Brewer, replaced the final twenty minutes of the UK programme from Monday to Friday.

From May 2014, Newsnight is again shown in full in Scotland, but delayed by half an hour to accommodate Newsnight Scotland's replacement, Scotland 2014.

In 2020, Newsnight won the Royal Television Society's Daily News Programme of the Year award.

Later, during the twentieth anniversary edition of Newsnight, Paxman told Howard that he had simply been trying to prolong the interview because the next item in the running order was not ready.

Newsnight said he had investigations carried out to establish whether the photograph was faked, but they had been "inconclusive".

From 2000 until December 2009, on Friday evenings Newsnight was followed at 23:00 by Newsnight Review, a 35-minute consumer survey of the week's artistic and cultural highlights.

Newsnight continued to chair the panel of guest reviewers when it was relaunched as Newsnight Review in 2000, up until December 2005.

Newsnight is available in the UK on BBC iPlayer for up to thirty days after broadcast.

From August 2013, Newsnight had a dedicated YouTube channel on which excerpts of programmes could be found.