Tonight

Season 20

Featuring national and international news, headline-making investigations, exclusive interviews with celebrities and policymakers, as well as in-depth reporting on a variety of topics.

Where to Watch Season 20

43 Episodes

Overweight Brits - Part 1
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Overweight Brits - Part 1Helen Skelton presents the first of a two-part Tonight special, looking at how much lack of exercise is costing the NHS due to ill health and some of the quick fixes overweight Brits are forking out for. But are they worth the cash being spent on them?
Overweight Brits - Part 2
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Overweight Brits - Part 2Helen Skelton presents the second of a two-part Tonight special, looking at the various products overweight Brits are forking out for in a bid to lose weight quickly after the festive season. But are they worth the money being spent on them?
Divorce Wars
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Divorce WarsOn the face of it, it seems astonishing that even though marriage has undergone unprecedented change in the last 50 years - the fundamental laws which govern how it comes to an end haven't changed since 1973.
'Dr Google': Do DIY Diagnoses Work?
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'Dr Google': Do DIY Diagnoses Work?With winter continuing to bite, it's not a great time to be hit by illness, particularly with A&E departments being busy or if you have difficulties getting an appointment with your GP. More and more people are turning to DIY diagnoses online, but could that be doing us more harm than good? Dr Oscar Duke investigates.
Bargain Holidays: What's the Truth?
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Bargain Holidays: What's the Truth?Thinking of booking your big holiday for the year? Make sure you aren't ripped off by the holiday scammers. Reporter Adam Shaw investigates the potential perils and pitfalls of buying your summer holiday in the sun.
HS Winter Crisis: What's the Truth?
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HS Winter Crisis: What's the Truth?
Travel Chaos: The True Cost
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Travel Chaos: The True CostTraffic on our roads is on the rise, and the number of people using our packed railways is set to double in the next 25 years. Tonight Jonathan Maitland investigates the miserable commutes facing millions of people.
Plastic: Can You Live Without it?
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Plastic: Can You Live Without it?Plastic waste is polluting the oceans, and there are concerns that it has now reached our food chain. The UK government has announced a plan to crack down on it and improve the environment, but this will take 25 years. Could and should something be done much quicker, and what can we all do to rethink our reliance on plastic? Helen Skelton investigates.
Trans Kids: The Right Response?
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Trans Kids: The Right Response?'Tonight' investigates the growing debate about transgender people - particularly among the young - and the pace of change around gender diversity in Britain. Dubbed the 'transgender revolution' by some, vulnerable young people can get help and support as never before, but others have expressed concern about the rapid increase in childhood referrals to gender identity clinics and about how schools and other bodies are responding to the issue. Julie Etchingham reports on a much-discussed subject.
Snowstorm: Britain's Big Chill
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Snowstorm: Britain's Big ChillThe blast of Siberian weather has gripped Britain, and potentially facing the lowest temperatures for 25 years. Helen Skelton investigates how the 'Beast from the East' is affecting Britain, and why the weather is still catching us out.
Britain's Pothole Crisis
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Britain's Pothole CrisisThe number of potholes is feared to be at record levels across the country, putting lives at risk on the roads and hitting motorists in the pocket. With more vehicles on our highways - and more councils saying that they haven't the cash to repair them - many roads seem to buckling under the strain. Adam Shaw investigates the truth behind Britain's pothole crisis.
Undercover: Rough Sleeper
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Undercover: Rough SleeperIn a special edition of 'Tonight', Adam Holloway goes undercover to investigate the rise of street homelessness in Britain, which is now in its seventh consecutive year of increase. Nearly 30 years after he filmed life with rough sleepers for a groundbreaking ITV documentary, Adam, who is now an MP, returns to where the problem is still most acute - on the streets and in the homeless shelters of the capital - and sets out to discover why rough sleeping persists three decades on.
Britain vs Russia: A New Cold War?
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Britain vs Russia: A New Cold War?Relations with Russia are at their worst for decades after the Putin regime was blamed for a chemical attack in Salisbury that poisoned a former Russian double agent, his daughter, and a policeman who tried to help them. It was a shocking event that has led to tit for tat diplomatic expulsions and threats of further action, but how bad could things get, and what can Britain really do? Adam Shaw investigates.
Can Brexit Fix Britain?
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Can Brexit Fix Britain?There's now only a year left before Brexit. To mark this looming new chapter in this island's history, Robert Peston went to a part of the UK called Teesside, and asked why they voted for Brexit, and what they think of it now?
Pets - The True Cost
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Pets - The True CostThere are more than 16 million dogs and cats in the UK; they're our most popular pets, but they come at an eye-watering cost. It's estimated that owners will spend up to £33,000 on a dog during its life and around £24,000 on a cat, but what happens if they get sick and - like millions of us - you don't have pet insurance? Jonathan Maitland investigates what price we're willing to pay for our love affair with pets.
OAP Bootcamp
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OAP BootcampTwo fifths of the NHS budget is spent on the over 65s, with loneliness, lack of exercise, and bad diet being the big causes of poor health in pensioners. Could changing all that make a difference? Tonight is about to find out: welcome to the OAP Bootcamp.
Processed Food: What Are We Eating?
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Processed Food: What Are We Eating?We rely heavily on processed food as a nation - from breakfast to dinner, it is available to us 24/7. How much do we really know about what we are eating? Fiona Foster investigates.
Secrets of Your Online Shop
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Secrets of Your Online ShopOnline shopping is a multi billion pound business in the UK, with drivers delivering three billion parcels a year, a figure set to double in the next five years. But complaints are also on the up. Ranvir Singh reports.
Google, Facebook & You: What They Know
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Google, Facebook & You: What They KnowThey are some of the richest companies in the world, but have they made their billions from the information that we give away on our smartphones and laptops, sometimes without us knowing? Adam Shaw investigates the personal information which has been gathered, held, and sometimes shared by some of the most popular apps we use.
Russia's World Cup Gangs
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Russia's World Cup GangsA look at possible violence at the World Cup
The Tower: A Year On
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The Tower: A Year OnWith a month to go until the anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, Tonight looks back at a night that devastated a community and shocked a nation. Hearing from the survivors, the bereaved and eye-witnesses - including some who have never spoken before - this special edition of Tonight talks us through what happened in June 2017 and how this community is fighting for a legacy that ensures it never happens again.
NHS saved my Life
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NHS saved my LifeAs the NHS turns 70, Tonight celebrates some of its 'miracles' through the eyes of patients who owe their lives to our national health service.
Eat Yourself Healthy?
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Eat Yourself Healthy?Britain is bulging, we are now officially the fattest nation in Western Europe with one in four adults being overweight/obese. Helen Skelton investigates our nation's expanding waistline and finds out how we can we eat ourselves healthy?
Violent Britain: Drugs, Knives and Gangs
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Violent Britain: Drugs, Knives and GangsAs the rate of stabbings and shootings across the country surges, Tonight explores a key driver behind the rise in knife and gun crime - the criminal networks supplying drugs, often involving young and vulnerable children. Allegra Stratton investigates the phenomenon known as 'county lines' where children as young as 10 are sent to rural areas and small towns to sell Class A drugs and talks to the frontline police working to break up gangs and disrupt supply lines.
Trump and Britain: Love or Loathing?
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Trump and Britain: Love or Loathing?On the eve of Donald's Trump's first official visit to the UK as President, Tonight asks how the US leader will be received and explores the state of our so-called 'Special Relationship' with Washington. Hearing from figures as varied as Lord Sugar, Nigel Farage, Germaine Greer and Alex Salmond, Martin Geissler also investigates what the future holds for our dealings with this most controversial of Presidents.
Heatwaves and Hailstones: Wild Weather UK
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Heatwaves and Hailstones: Wild Weather UKRecord temperatures, torrential rain and hailstorms in Britain; forest fires in the Arctic circle; devastation and death in Greece, Japan and North America. The weather across summer 2018 appears to be breaking records for all the wrong reasons. But could this be the new normal for us Brits - and the shape of things to come? Becky Mantin investigates.
Shopping: End of the High Street?
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Shopping: End of the High Street?The High Street is in trouble. In the last 10 years, nearly 220,000 jobs have been lost as 85,000 shops closed their doors for good. So is bricks and mortar retail in terminal decline? Are the tech giants of online retail to blame? And what's the likely impact on us, the shoppers? Retail expert Kate Hardcastle investigates.
Our Debt: The True Cost
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Our Debt: The True CostAn estimated eight million of us are struggling with debt problems. It can cause a whole range of issues from financial to mental health. Tonight investigates the mounting debt crisis - and how some people are fighting their way out of trouble.
What Car Should I Buy?
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What Car Should I Buy?The car industry is changing and fast. The government has said that by 2040 cars that run purely on petrol or diesel will no longer be sold in this country. Tonight Ginny Buckley explores the conundrum facing car buyers.
Fighting Fat: Back to Basics
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Fighting Fat: Back to BasicsOne in four Britons are now obese. With our expanding waistlines comes a bulging diet industry. But with the advice often being contradictory and confusing...is it time to go back to basics? Helen Skelton reports.
Britain on Painkillers: The Silent Epidemic
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Britain on Painkillers: The Silent EpidemicThe mother of two who fell victim to Britain's silent epidemic: the growing addiction to prescription painkillers. Nicki Hari talks to Julie Etchingham about her 20-year story of addiction to opioids.
Britain's Property Crisis
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Britain's Property CrisisReporter Jonathan Maitland travels to Manchester. He reveals that of the 9,700 new homes in the pipeline up to 2021 in Manchester city centre, only 28 of them will be classed as 'affordable' rental homes.
Wild Weather UK: Winners and Losers
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Wild Weather UK: Winners and Losers
Pay Now, Die Later: Funerals Uncovered
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Pay Now, Die Later: Funerals UncoveredWith the cost of dying skyrocketing, many are opting to purchase their funeral before they pass away. But are pre-paid funerals a good investment or a waste of cash? Chris Choi reports.
Driving: The True Cost?
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Driving: The True Cost?Up to twelve million motorists receive a penalty notice each year, amounting to one billion pounds of revenue. It equates to a fine being issued every 2.5 seconds. Are motorists in Britain treated fairly? Fiona Foster investigates.
What's In Our Meat?
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What's In Our Meat?A Freedom of Information request from ITV Tonight shows the Food Standards Agency - a body set up to protect the public - has given no money at all in the past year to Local Authorities for food sampling tests. Jonathan Maitland reports.
Frontline Care: Saving the NHS?
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Frontline Care: Saving the NHS?Tonight's cameras were granted access to the 'Focused Care' team based at GP surgeries in Oldham. Their aim is to focus care on the people who need it the most in order to improve patients lives and reduce pressure on the wider NHS.
Car Crime: How Safe Are You?
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Car Crime: How Safe Are You?Rates of car theft are the highest they've been in years, and new technology makes it all too easy for criminals to steal people's cars. Why aren't the police catching more criminals, and what can the public do to keep their car safe?
Immigration: Who Do We Let In?
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Immigration: Who Do We Let In?With less than four months to go until Brexit, the biggest change to our immigration policy in decades is looming: the end of freedom of movement. But which migrant workers will Britain need in the future? Richard Bacon reports.
Trump and the Truth: America's Conspiracy Wars
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Trump and the Truth: America's Conspiracy WarsHas America become increasingly paranoid and suspicious, seeing shadows and threats everywhere?, or does it eventually rediscover its equilibrium and return to a belief in reason and science? Robert Moore reports.
Food Allergies: What's Really in Your Food?
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Food Allergies: What's Really in Your Food?There has been an unprecedented rise in the number of children with food allergies over the past few decades and as recent cases have shown, the consequences of getting it wrong can be catastrophic. Ranvir Singh reports.
Christmas Buyers Beware
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Christmas Buyers BewareLast year, the UK spent almost 80 billion pounds on Christmas gifts - but not everyone got the bargain they were hoping for. And as families prepare for the festive season once again, criminals are also getting ready with a whole range of cons and scams. Tonight investigates how to keep your cash safe this Christmas.
Meghan: The Story So Far
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Meghan: The Story So FarIt's been six months since Meghan Markle took on her most ambitious role yet. From that day in May, when she joined the House of Windsor, through to her first overseas tour, the American's life has changed forever. Julie Etchingham reports