Everything about This Week Abc Tv Series totally explained
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.
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.
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..
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.
Moderators
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:
George Will
Cokie Roberts
Sam Donaldson
Fareed Zakaria
Martha Raddatz
Torie Clarke
Donna Brazile
Jay Carney
Claire Shipman
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Robert Reich
David Corn
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Mark Halperin
Joe Klein
David BrooksFurther Information
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