The BBC News at Ten (also known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or more commonly, the Ten O'Clock News) is the flagship evening news programme for British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented by Huw Edwards, and deputised by Fiona Bruce. It is the final comprehensive news programme of the day on BBC One. The programme was controversially moved from 21:00 on 16 October 2000.
It is broadcast Monday to Sunday from 22:00 until 22:30 and features twenty-five minutes of British national and international news, with an emphasis on the latter. It incorporates five minutes of news from the BBC regions around the country at around 22:25. Over the three months since its revival ITV News at Ten has averaged 2.2 million viewers compared with an average of 4.8 million viewers watching the BBC bulletin over the same period.
The BBC News at Ten is currently the most watched news programme in Britain, averaging 4.9 million viewers each night.
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