The Agenda with Tom Bradby explained

Genre:Politics
Current affairs
Runtime:30 minutes (2012–14)
45 minutes (2015—16)
60 minutes (2016; 2 episodes)
(inc. adverts)
Director:Rob Hopkin
Executive Producer:Chris Shaw
Country:United Kingdom
Presenter:Tom Bradby
Network:ITV
Num Series:9
Num Episodes:84
Producer:ITN Productions for
ITV News & Current Affairs
Location:The Hospital Club
The London Studios (2016; 2 episodes)
Related:ITV News

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The Agenda is a political discussion programme on British television network ITV, broadcast on Monday evenings from 10.45pm. The programme was presented by ITV News anchor Tom Bradby and was first broadcast on 27 February 2012 and it ran for nine series until the show's cancellation on 28 November 2016.

In each episode, Bradby was joined by four guests to discuss the biggest news stories of the previous week and then talk about the week ahead. Guests have included David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson. The programme did not return after 9 series, running until 2016.

Episode Guide

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 27 February 2012 23 April 2012 8
2 15 October 2012 3 December 2012 8
3 28 January 2013 18 March 2013 8
4 7 October 2013 9 December 2013 10
5 10 February 2014 14 April 2014 10
6 6 October 2014 8 December 2014 10
7 2 April 2015 11 May 2015 10
8 22 February 2016 2 May 2016 10
9 26 September 2016 28 November 2016 10

Series 1

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1
2 5 March 2012
3 12 March 2012
4 19 March 2012
5 26 March 2012
6 Ross Kemp, Martin Sorrell, Margot James and Joan Bakewell. 2 April 2012
7 16 April 2012
8 23 April 2012

Series 2

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1
2 22 October 2012
3 29 October 2012
4 5 November 2012
5 12 November 2012
6 19 November 2012
7 26 November 2012
8 William Hague, Jeanette Winterson, Allison Pearson and Andy Street3 December 2012

Series 3

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1
2 4 February 2013
3 11 February 2013
4 18 February 2013
5 25 February 2013
6 4 March 2013
7 11 March 2013
8 18 March 2013[1]

Series 4

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 7 October 2013
2 14 October 2013
3 21 October 2013
4 28 October 2013
5 4 November 2013
6 11 November 2013
7 Ed Balls, Nicola Horlick, Christopher Meyer and Susie Boniface18 November 2013
8 25 November 2013
9 2 December 2013
10 9 December 2013

Series 5

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 10 February 2014
2 17 February 2014
3 24 February 2014
4 3 March 2014
5 10 March 2014
6 17 March 2014
7 Ed Miliband, David Baddiel, Laura Tenison and Sarah Vine24 March 2014
8 31 March 2014
9 7 April 2014
10 14 April 2014

Series 6

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 6 October 2014
2 13 October 2014
3 20 October 2014
4 27 October 2014
5 Chuka Umunna, Susie Boniface, Peter Bazalgette and Lorraine Candy 3 November 2014
6 10 November 2014
7 17 November 2014
8 24 November 2014
9 1 December 2014
10 8 December 2014

Series 7

The series began on 2 April 2015. Two episodes aired each week in the run up to the 2015 General Election.

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 2 April 2015
2 9 April 2015
3 13 April 2015
4 16 April 2015
5 Ed Balls, Jane Moore, Marcus Brigstocke and Louise Cooper20 April 2015
6 23 April 2015
7 27 April 2015
8 30 April 2015
9 4 May 2015
10 11 May 2015

Series 8

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 22 February 2016[2]
2 29 February 2016
3 Tim Farron, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic Lawson and Grainne Maguire7 March 2016
4 14 March 2016
5 21 March 2016
6 4 April 2016
7 11 April 2016
8 18 April 2016
9 25 April 2016
10 2 May 2016

Series 9

Episode Panellists Original broadcast date
1 26 September 2016
2 Nick Clegg, Jane Moore, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Alastair Campbell3 October 2016
3 10 October 2016
4 18 October 2016
5 25 October 2016
6 31 October 2016
7 Nigel Farage, Emily Thornberry, David Baddiel, Tim Shipman and Jan Halper-Hays 8 November 2016
8 14 November 2016
9 21 November 2016
10 28 November 2016

Notes and References

  1. http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep8week12/agenda-series-three Agenda series three
  2. http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week8/agenda Agenda Week 8