Since January 2017, the live draws are no longer broadcast on television and are available to watch online at the National Lottery website and on YouTube.

Since April 2018, a new show called The National Lottery Lotto Results has aired on ITV on Wednesday and Saturday nights during commercial breaks.

Presented by Stephen Mulhern, the show features that night's winning Lotto numbers, and spotlights a National Lottery-funded location.

Afterwards, it was co-presented by Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy, later replaced by Bob Monkhouse, all of them assisted by the psychic Mystic Meg and numbers expert Sam Weren.

During the live show era, in the event of Dedicoat being unavailable, commentary was provided by fellow BBC Radio 2 announcer Charles Nove.

From 1998 to 2016, the Saturday night draws were usually presented as part of a game show that was shown to be associated with the lottery branding.

Most of the game shows were partially pre-recorded and live in the case with Winning Lines and Jet Set where the first two rounds were pre-recorded but the final round was broadcast live, with the game show host also presenting the lottery draws, though since 18 May 2002, there would also be a draw presenter.

[citation needed] Gaby Roslin hosted the final live draw on 31 December 2016, with Alan Dedicoat joining her in vision to close the show.

From 7 January 2017, with the move to the BBC iPlayer, the programme featured no presenter with Dedicoat continuing to announce the draws using pre-recorded commentary.