Ken Maginnis

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

The Cook Report was a British current affairs television programme shown on ITV, produced for the network by Central Television from 1987 to 1998.