The Andrew Marr Show
The Andrew Marr Show is a Sunday morning talk show presented by Andrew Marr. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2005 to 2021.
The Andrew Marr Show
Sunday AM (2005–2007)
Sunday Morning
Politics
United Kingdom
English
Studio 54D, New Broadcasting House, London
60 minutes
11 September 2005 –
19 December 2021
The programme replaced the long-running Breakfast with Frost as the network's flagship Sunday talk show when David Frost decided to retire. Originally launched as Sunday AM, it was renamed The Andrew Marr Show in September 2007 when the show returned after its summer break. Marr interviewed political figures and others involved in the current events of the week in every episode. The programme begins with a review of the Sunday papers, for which Marr is joined by two or three different guests. It also featured BBC News and BBC Weather updates. The programme shared a studio with Sunday Politics, Newsnight and HARDtalk, BBC World News, GMT, Impact, Global and Focus on Africa. Following Marr's departure from the BBC in 2021, the show was broadcast under the temporary title Sunday Morning.[1]
Editors included Rob Burley and founding editor Barney Jones, whose last show was on 18 January 2015.[2] The programme's title sequence was a pastiche of the television series The Prisoner. The programme was recorded at New Broadcasting House after September 2012.
The programme aired for the final time on 19 December 2021, and was replaced by Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, which began airing on 4 September 2022.
Guest presenters[edit]
Summer replacement[edit]
Guest presenters hosted the programme through July and it was replaced in August by BBC News at Nine.
Guest presenters included: Zeinab Badawi, Sophie Raworth, Fiona Bruce, Stephanie Flanders, Huw Edwards, Martha Kearney, Emily Maitlis, James Landale and Jeremy Vine.
2013 guest presenters[edit]
In January 2013, Marr suffered a stroke[5] and was replaced by guest presenters. Marr appeared as a guest on the show on 14 April to speak about Margaret Thatcher's legacy, and spoke about the incident and his recovery. Paralysis of the left side of his body was evident, but his speech was unaffected, and he expressed determination to return to the presenter's role. Marr conducted pre-recorded interviews with David Miliband and David Cameron for the editions of 14 and 21 July respectively, and returned to the main presenter's role after the series' summer break in September.[6]
From January until June, there was no fixed cover presenter. The guest presenters who appeared included Jeremy Vine, Sophie Raworth, James Landale, Eddie Mair, Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Nick Robinson. From 9 June, Vine and Raworth became the regular presenters and began to alternate presenting duties each week. Vine presented the final programme before Marr's return on 28 July, confirming Marr's return for the new series on 1 September. Vine sat in again on 15 December due to family commitments.[7]
Reception[edit]
Viewing figures[edit]
The Andrew Marr Show averaged around two million viewers an episode, representing a 30% audience share.
Rivalry with Sophy Ridge on Sunday[edit]
Since its inception until August 2018 the programme was broadcast at 9 am. That month the timeslot was changed to 10 am, in direct competition with rival Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News.[20] The latter show changed to 9 am soon after.[21] The news of the move was broken by a tweet by Andrew Marr to Sophy Ridge, apparently made by accident. It was quickly deleted.[22]
In August 2019 it was announced that The Andrew Marr Show was moving back to 9 am, again in direct competition with Ridge after a year-long "experiment".[23] Sky News immediately announced that Ridge would move to 8:30 am.[24]