Peston’s Sunday service ends as he moves show to midweek evening slot
ROBERT PESTON’S current affairs programme is to move from its Sunday morning slot to a new midweek evening position. Previously called Peston On
Sunday, the show will now be called Peston, and will air after ITV’s News At Ten on Wednesdays, ITV confirmed following reports of the schedule change.
It was previously broadcast at 10am on Sundays and was repeated after the News at Ten the same day.
Peston, ITV News’s political editor, said he “could not be more pleased” at his programme’s jump from Sunday mornings to Wednesday nights.
He said: “It has always struck me as significant that PoS typically has double or more viewers for its 10.15pm repeat than for its live broadcast at 10am, so I wanted to explore a possible move to first transmission in the evening, and it then seemed natural to change the broadcast day to Wednesday – because this is often the biggest political day of the week, and includes Prime Minister’s Questions.”
The 58-year-old said he is “immensely proud of what we have created at Peston On Sunday”, and promised that the new show “will retain its blend of agenda-setting interviews, digital interaction with the audience, cutting-edge graphical analysis, informality and fun”. He said there will also be “some exciting new elements”.
“We look forward to Peston ,in its new slot, providing viewers with great political conversation and analysis on what is often the most interesting political day of the week.”
The newly-scheduled Peston will air from this autumn.