Spotlight is a BBC Northern Ireland weekly current affairs programme.
The programme is aired on BBC1 Northern Ireland at 10:35pm (and sometimes early) on Tuesday evenings,[1] with a repeat on BBC2.
[2] It is available to UK viewers outside of Northern Ireland on BBC iPlayer for a week after the programme.
At present, these are Mandy McAuley,[3] Lyndsey Telford,[4] Conor Spackman, [5] Julian O'Neill,[6] Stephen Dempster,[7] Jennifer O'Leary,[8] Alan Haslam.
[11][12] It has launched the careers of a number of high-profile broadcasters, including Jeremy Paxman, Alex Thomson and Gavin Esler.