BBC News at Five

The BBC News at Five is an hour long news programme broadcast every weekday at 17:00 on BBC News. The programme is fronted by BBC News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards from Monday-Thursday, and Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler on Friday. The show includes a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and business, sport and weather updates.

History
The programme started in 3 April 2006 as part of the BBC's relaunch of BBC News presenters, which saw the introduction of the new flagship programme to compete against Jeremy Thompson's Live at Five programme on rival channel Sky News, and to improve BBC News ratings for the hour.

As part of the 2008 revamp of the entire news output, the show moved studios within BBC Television Centre along with BBC News and the BBC News at One and BBC News at Ten bulletins. The show originally broadcast from Studio N8 but moved to Studio N6.

On 18 March 2013, the programme moved to Broadcasting House along with BBC News and the BBC One bulletins. Until 4 November 2013, the BBC News at Five was the only set of titled news bulletins on the channel not include the hour at which the broadcasting of the news began on the opening titles.

Outside broadcasts
As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example Huw Edwards reported live from Washington for the 2008 and 2012 US Presidential Elections and has presented live from Basra form the withdrawal ceremony the studio host in theses cases are normally Gavin Esler. He also regularly presented from Westminster. George Alagiah presented from L'Aquila in April 2009 and Haiti in January 2010 when earthquakes struck the countries.

Former presenters
If there is no position before the years of being a presenter, then this newsreader was either a relief presenter or occasional guest stand-in presenter.


 * Ben Brown (2009-2013)
 * Joanna Gosling (2009–2010)
 * Sophie Long (2011-2012)
 * Louise Minchin (2007–2011)
 * Clive Myrie (2010-2013) Now presents the sister show BBC News at Nine
 * Peter Sissons (2006–2009)
 * Jon Sopel (2009–2012) Now presents Global with Jon Sopel on BBC World News

Sport, Business and Weather
The weather and business updates are generally presented from the screen away from the main desk, unless they are preceding each other. Sports updates are presented from the BBC Sport Centre at MediaCityUK, Salford. The Film Review appears during the programme on Fridays between 17:45 and 18:00, and is presented by the anchor and a film critic, usually Mark Kermode, from the main desk, however the background and lighting changes to resemble a cinema effect. It features reviews of all the week's main releases.