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Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast on weekdays at 10.30pm on BBC2. The regular presenters of the programme are Jeremy Paxman, Gavin Esler, Kirsty Wark, Jon Sopel and the show's political editor, Martha Kearney. Some of the show's UK-based correspondents, such as Liz McKean and Mark Urban, also appear in the studio from time to time. The show also incorporates Newsnight Review, in which events in the arts are discussed by a panel of pundits, on Friday evenings, when the programme is lengthened to an hour.

Newsnight has been running since 1980. Peter Snow presented the programme for its first 18 years and still helps out for special broadcasts, such as wars and elections. Other former presenters include Peter Hobday, Charles Wheeler (latterly the BBC's chief reporter in Washington DC), John Tusa, Olivia O'Leary, Francine Stock, Sarah Monatgue and Jeremy Vine. Vine's style grew so close to that of the incumbent main presenter, Paxman, that the latter was said to refer to the former as Mini-me.