About this show

The BBC News at Six is the BBC's evening news programme on British television channels BBC One and BBC News, broadcast weeknights at 6:00pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may be shorter and only shown on BBC One. For a long period, the BBC News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been overtaken by the BBC News at Ten. On average it is watched by four million viewers.
The programme is presented by Sophie Raworth and Reeta Chakrabarti.
Since December 2007, the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC One at 7:58 pm.
On 8 May 2017, SBS in Australia began airing BBC News at Six during their English-language news programming segment. It is broadcast at 7:00 am every day on delay from Britain.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulletin was extended to 33 minutes
The programme is usually not broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel and is meant for UK viewers only.