General Election 2024 – Pre-Coverage
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Sky News has been showing off their election studio in the run up to the general election on Thursday 4th July.
They are using Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football. Kay Burley, Beth Rigby, Ed Conway and others will be live from studio 4 from 9pm on Thursday, an hour before polls close and the results of the exit poll is revealed.
I walked past College Green this afternoon where the BBC were setting up their election 2024 studio.
CNN International will air special coverage on Election night 2024. Richard Quest and Isa Soares will lead the network’s special
ITV has confirmed the seven politicians who will appear for its General Election multi-party debate on Thursday, 13th June at 8.30pm.
It’s the same seven that took part in the BBC debate on Friday.
Each party’s representative will stand behind podiums on the stage in the order of (L-R): Angela Rayner for Labour Party, Daisy Cooper for Liberal Democrats, Penny Mordaunt for Conservative Party, Carla Denyer for Green Party, Nigel Farage for Reform UK, Stephen Flynn for SNP and Rhun ap Iorwerth for Plaid Cymru.
The 90 minute long debate will be moderated by Julie Etchingham.
BBC News presenter Sophie Raworth has pulled out of moderating the head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.
Channel 4 has extended its Election Night programme.
It will now run until 9am on Friday 5th July.
The show will be fronted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Emily Maitlis and include The Rest is Politics podcast hosts Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.
Channel 4 also announced that broadcaster and mathematics professor Hannah Fry will replace Clare Balding, who had to pull out of the programme due to her Wimbledon commitments.
Kwasi Kwarteng, Nadim Zahawi, Harriet Harman, Vince Cable, Mhairi Black, and Ann Widdecombe will also pop up during the night.
Sky News has revealed the format for the Battle for Number 10 special on Wednesday evening.
Political editor Beth Rigby will interview the leader for 20 minutes before Sarah-Jane Mee and a representative audience put their questions to each leader for 25 minutes.
There will be a coin toss to decide which leader goes first.
The Battle for Number 10 Leaders Special Event, Wednesday 12 June 7pm-10pm on Sky News.
The BBC today confirmed their line up of party leader interviews with Nick Robinson.
They are:
Monday 10 June at 20:00 – Rishi Sunak, Conservative Party
Tuesday 11 June at 22:40 – Nigel Farage, Reform UK This interview has been postponed for logistical reasons and the BBC will announce a new date when confirmed.
Wednesday 12 June at 19:00 (BBC One and BBC One Scotland) – John Swinney, SNP
Wednesday 12 June at 19:00 (BBC One Wales) – Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru
Friday 14 June at 19.30 – Sir Keir Starmer, Labour Party
Tuesday 18 June at 22:40 – Adrian Ramsay, Green Party
Friday 28 June at 20:30 – Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrats
First Nigel Farage, now Kevin O’Sullivan!
BREAKING: First Nigel Farage, now Kevin O'Sullivan…@TVKev @Nigel_Farage pic.twitter.com/oxvmjgrBwM
— Talk (@TalkTV) June 5, 2024
Sky News made good use of the Westminster studio and election graphics today with the results of the latest YouGov
The Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps hangs up on Sam Coates – live on Sky News.
“Have you seen that you are about to lose your seat according to the Sky News YouGov projection?”
"Have you seen that you are about to lose your seat according to the Sky News YouGov projection?"
Defence secretary @grantshapps calls Sky's @SamCoatesSky live on TV.https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
? Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/fWlmQeFB1F
— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 3, 2024
Sky News correspondent Matthew Thompson has Interviewed Ed Davey on a waterslide in Frome.
Matthew is with the Liberal Democrat leader as they tour the South West of the country during the general election campaign 2024.
“It’s a tough gig, but someone’s got to do it.”
It wouldn’t be a general election campaign without EVERY political correspondent doing a piece-to-camera on a bus, right?
The BBC’s South America correspondent Ione Wells is back in the UK to cover the General Election as a political correspondent.
I’ll miss my new home (and colleagues!) in South America, and this fantastic patch, but I will be back soon – with lots coming up in the pipeline for the rest of the year ?
In the meantime, look forward to covering what should be an exciting few weeks in UK politics ??
— Ione Wells (@ionewells) May 22, 2024
Clare Balding will no longer be a part of Channel 4’s election coverage.
She will be fronting live coverage of the Wimbledon Championships on the BBC.
Channel 4 is election ready! July 4th for the best analysis and commentary. Unfortunately though – even superwoman @clarebalding can't be in two places at once….so she'll be covering Wimbledon for the BBC and back on C4 later in August for our Paralympic coverage https://t.co/XZhvx4QCq7
— Louisa Compton (@louisa_compton) May 23, 2024
UK viewers will get a dedicated feed from 9am-6pm to focus on Election coverage.
This will come from Studio E, while the World feed comes from Studio C.
? CLEAN FEED | BBC News Channel pre-election arrangements:
– Dedicated UK feed (Studio E) 9am – 6pm (or 8pm if reqd) to allow more election coverage; global news will be reported too.
– World feed (Studio C) will report UK election as appropriate for global audience. pic.twitter.com/XCh497R82u— The TV Room (@thetvroom) May 23, 2024
Ali Fortescue – who has just returned from maternity leave – will front the Politics Hub on Friday to Sundays on Sky News from now until the general election 2024.
Sophy will continue with the Monday-Thursday shows.
Between now and the general election, #PoliticsHub will be on seven days a week!@SophyRidgeSky will be with you Monday – Thursday@AliFortescue will be on your screens Friday – Sunday from next week
? Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YT pic.twitter.com/v7qjzj9kQr
— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) May 23, 2024
Sky News released a special documentary on 18th July taking a behind the scenes look at their 2024 general election
On 18th July 2024, the BBC released a new episode of Behind the Stories. This episode took a look behind
Chris Cook, Creative Director for BBC News, has shared a behind the scenes video of the ‘The most stressful mouse-click
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