Spotlight (BBC Northern Ireland TV programme)

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Spotlight is a BBC Northern Ireland weekly current affairs programme. It debuted in 1973.

The programme is aired on BBC1 Northern Ireland at 10:35pm (and sometimes early) on Tuesday evenings,[1] with a repeat on BBC2.[2] It is available to UK viewers outside of Northern Ireland on BBC iPlayer for a week after the programme. The format usually consists of a half-hour report presented on a rotating basis by a small number of presenters and reporters. At present, these are Mandy McAuley,[3] Lyndsey Telford,[4] Conor Spackman, [5] Julian O'Neill,[6] Stephen Dempster,[7] Jennifer O'Leary,[8] Alan Haslam.[9] Occasionally, the programme consists of a studio format with various reports and panel discussions.

Spotlight is well known for its hard-hitting investigations[10] and in 2008 won a Royal Television Society award for Mandy McAuley's dog-fighting investigation. [11][12]

It has launched the careers of a number of high-profile broadcasters, including Jeremy Paxman, Alex Thomson and Gavin Esler. [13]

Spotlight at 40

On 22 October 2013, Spotlight celebrated its 40th anniversary with an hour-long special show dubbed Spotlight at 40.[14][15] The show featured interviews with Gavin Esler, Roisin McAuley, Alex Thomson and Jeremy Paxman and took a look back at the show's 40-year run including its most controversial shows. [16]

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