The flagship programme, initially an hour-long and presented by Alastair Stewart and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter London Today bulletins, launched on 4 January 1993 (LWT discontinued its own local news service the previous weekend).

The main evening programme was reduced to 30 minutes a year later, while from 25 November 1996 to September 2002, a half-hour lunchtime edition of London Today was broadcast on weekdays.

[2] London Tonight was unaffected by the ITV regional news cuts in February 2009.

[3] On 4 July 2012, ITV News editor Deborah Turness informed London Tonight employees a third of staff would be made redundant, with ITV News and London Tonight both sharing newsgathering and studios from 1 October 2012.

[5] Former notable lead presenters include Katie Derham,[6] Fiona Foster, Nina Hossain,[7] Natasha Kaplinsky,[8] Anna Maria Ashe, Donal MacIntyre,[9] Mary Nightingale, Alastair Stewart[10] and Matt Teale.