This Week (ABC TV series)

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This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Image:Thisweek.jpg
Format News
Created by Roone Arledge
Starring George Stephanopoulos (panelist 1997-2002; anchor 2002-present)
Sam Donaldson (co-anchor 1996-2002; panelist 1981-1996 and 2002-present)
Cokie Roberts (co-anchor 1996-2002; panelist 1988-1996 and 2002-present)
George Will (panelist 1981-present)
David Brinkley (anchor 1981-1996)
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes N/A
Production
Location(s) Newseum (2008-present)
Washington, D.C.
Running time 1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run 1981 (As This Week with David Brinkley) – present
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

This Week is one of the five network U.S. Sunday morning political talk shows. It has aired on Sunday mornings on ABC since 1981; the program is initially aired at 9:00 AM ET, although almost all stations air the program later. George Stephanopoulos has hosted the program since September 2002.

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[edit] Hosts

From 1981 to 1996, it was hosted by David Brinkley and known as This Week with David Brinkley. After Brinkley retired, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts hosted, with the according program name change. Ever since Stephanopoulos took over, the program has been known as This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

[edit] Key features

One of the key features of This Week is the Roundtable, which includes pundits such as George Will and Fareed Zakaria, ABC News correspondents such as Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, and others discussing the major issues of the week. Will, a panelist ever since the program's start with David Brinkley, also contributes short reports to the broadcast.

Other key features include The List, which includes "voices" and "images" segments (often combined into one), which spotlight a notable newsmaker, the "Sunday funnies," a collection of late-night jokes, and In Memoriam, a listing of prominent celebrity deaths and a listing of all military deaths from that week.

On April 20, 2008, This Week began broadcasting from the Newseum in Washington D.C. in a studio that overlooks the U.S. Capitol. In addition, the program became available in high definition for the first time in the program's history, also becoming the first Sunday Morning talk show in high defintion.[1].

[edit] International broadcasts

ABC News programming, including This Week is shown weekly on the twenty-four hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. In Australia it airs on Sky News Australia, in Japan on NHK & in New Zealand on TVNZ 7.

[edit] Moderators

[edit] Regular panelists

With the exception of George Will, who is currently a fixed member of the Roundtable, the following is a list of some of the regular panelists who appear each week, typically 3-4 at a time (not including the moderator), though some -- such as Cokie Roberts and Fareed Zakaria -- appear more regularly than others:

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=4673545&page=1 ABC News: Coming Up on 'This Week' 04.20.08
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