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ELECTION 2024
Thursday, BBC, regions vary; Election 2024 Live: The Results, ITV1, 9.50pm; Britain Decides with The Rest Is Politics and Gogglebox, Channel 4, 9.45pm
The nation goes to the polls on Thursday, but there’s another question facing the British public – where to watch the election night results?
The BBC, ITV1 and Channel 4 are bringing out the big guns for their coverage.
For the Beeb, Laura Kuenssberg, Clive Myrie and political editor Chris Mason are taking charge of the network coverage programme, which will be shown on BBC1 in England, and BBC2 in Wales. They’ll be in the studios in London, where Reeta Chakrabarti and political scientist Prof Sir John Curtice will help them analyse the results as they come in.
Watt and Alex Forsyth will visit the key battlegrounds.
Over on ITV1, Tom Bradby will be joined by an impressive line-up, including George Osborne, Ed Balls and Nicola Sturgeon, as well as ITV’S leading election analysts Professor Jane Green and Professor Colin Rallings.
Meanwhile, Channel 4’s team includes Krishnan Guru-murthy and The News Agents’ Emily Maitlis, along with The Rest is Politics podcast hosts Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, and some familiar faces from Gogglebox, who will give us the non-insider take on the campaigns.
THE LAST LEG: ELECTION SPECIAL
Friday, Channel 4, 10pm
The results will be in (unless something has gone seriously awry) and now the time
begins for the politicians to set out their vision for the future – or re ect on what went wrong.
There’s a special edition of Question Time on BBC1 tonight, but if you’d prefer something a bit more light-hearted, The Last Leg team are here.
Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by celebrity guests and politicians as they analyse the night’s results and look back at some of the highs and many lows of the campaign.
VANISHED: THE SEARCH FOR BRITAIN’S MISSING
Wednesday, Channel 5, 7pm
Every 90 seconds, someone is reported missing in the UK.
In Vanished: The Hunt for Britain’s Missing,
Dan Walker (pictured above) explores some of the stories behind those statistics, including the cases which remain unsolved.
In this episode, he revisits the mysteries of Claudia Lawrence, a chef who was last seen in March 2009, and Alex Sloley, who seemingly disappeared without a trace in 2008, when he was aged just
16.
Dan hears from their loved ones and looks at some of the key questions surrounding these cases.