Bev Turner for GB News in Washington
GB News has announced plans for an ambitious expansion in America with the launch of a two-hour daily show from a new studio in Washington DC, a stone’s throw from the White House.
As a result for the first time since the channel’s launch four years ago, GB News will broadcast live permanently from 6am to 2am each day as opposed to the current 6am to midnight.
The chief anchor of the new show, which will air at midnight UK time and 7pm ET, will be Bev Turner, who currently presents the weekday morning slot alongside Andrew Pierce.
The channel said that the programme will have “headline-making exclusives, thought-provoking interviews with major figures, and in-depth analysis of the Donald Trump presidency as well as stories from across the US”.
The broadcaster will also appoint its first US political editor to work alongside Steven Edginton, who has been working as a US political correspondent last year and has grown the American audience via YouTube.
GB News says that its YouTube content has been viewed a quarter of a billion times by Americans to date, while the main website draws in 2.6 million US users per month.
“With the gutsiest guests and the most iconic backdrops, I intend to keep viewers up late,” said Turner.
“Fronting the next stage of GB News’s evolution is both a huge honour and an immense responsibility, and I cannot wait to represent the People’s Channel on a global stage.
“After three years at GB News, I hope the viewers trust me to show them what life is really like in the epicentre of ‘MAGA-land’ as history unfolds before our eyes.
“We will be disrupting the late-night TV space as the next day’s papers land in the UK and America’s prime-time analysis gears up. This affords us the chance to deliver a unique UK-USA hybrid of political, cultural and social issues from the start-line of global politics.
“We will fulfil the need for a British voice with an international perspective to help our viewers get a sense of who’s really on their side.
“Tapping into Washington’s heartbeat and delivering real-time perspective with editorial edge, the show will be alive, and a conversation that’s punchy, intelligent and unmissable. What happens in DC, reverberates in GB and we will capture every moment.
“Our highly engaged British audience understands how events in the US are directly impacting government policy and living standards here. We have a job to do: bridging the gap between British and American politics in the fearless style that typifies GB News.
“We will include the very best guests that Washington has to offer, alongside quintessentially British voices in an unparalleled assessment of events on both sides of the Atlantic. This isn’t just a media experiment. This is a market intervention. And I look forward to leading it from the front.”
The new show will begin in September.
