History Series / NewsAtTen

* RewriteTheThemeTune: The theme tune was rehashed in a slightly higher pitch in 1992. It was done again for the 2008 and 2016 reboots.

* RewriteTheThemeSong: The theme tune was rehashed in a slightly higher pitch in 1992. It was done again for the 2008 and 2016 reboots.

* ButNowIMustGo:

* TenMinuteRetirement: Trevor McDonald kept coming back... and then back... and then back again whenever ITV needed to boost ratings, with varying degrees of success.

[[Creator/ITV ITV]]'s most famous news programme, running from 1967 to 1999, then being brought back from 2001-2004 and again from 2008 onwards. The {{Revival}} has not been doing too well ratings wise, peaking at only 4.3 million, largely as the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] pushed their own news back an hour to capitalise on an horrific example of ExecutiveMeddling.

''Bong!'' (break for bed music) [[Creator/ITV ITV]]'s most famous news programme, running from 1967 to 1999, then being brought back from 2001-2004 and again from 2008 onwards. The {{Revival}} has not been doing too well ratings wise, peaking at only 4.3 million, largely as the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] pushed their own news back an hour to capitalise on an horrific example of ExecutiveMeddling.

''Bong!'' Its main anchor currently is Tom Bradby, and viewers certainly got what they ordered when his 'conversational' style of news arrived in late 2015. He's often drafted in when there's a particularly political news story or something he can react to with his ComicallySerious facial expressions. He's replaced by Julie Etchingham, Rageh Omaar or occasionally Chris Ship or Paul Brand when he's not needed. Notable very much for Creator/TrevorMcDonald, a trope of his own.

''Bong!'' And this show always ends with "[[YetAnotherBabyPanda And Finally]]", a fluff piece after the real news has been covered, a more light-hearted or {{Heartwarming}} way to end the show after an intense half hour of news - a novelty when this show first came about.

''Bong!'' (break for bed music)<br />
[[Creator/ITV ITV]]'s most famous news programme, running from 1967 to 1999, then being brought back from 2001-2004 and again from 2008 onwards. The {{Revival}} has not been doing too well ratings wise, peaking at only 4.3 million, largely as the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] pushed their own news back an hour to capitalise on an horrific example of ExecutiveMeddling.

''Bong!''<br />
Its main anchor currently is Tom Bradby, and viewers certainly got what they ordered when his 'conversational' style of news arrived in late 2015. He's often drafted in when there's a particularly political news story or something he can react to with his ComicallySerious facial expressions. He's replaced by Julie Etchingham, Rageh Omaar or occasionally Chris Ship or Paul Brand when he's not needed. Notable very much for Creator/TrevorMcDonald, a trope of his own.

''Bong!''<br />
And this show always ends with "[[YetAnotherBabyPanda And Finally]]", a fluff piece after the real news has been covered, a more light-hearted or {{Heartwarming}} way to end the show after an intense half hour of news - a novelty when this show first came about.

!! This is ITV Tropes at Ten... with [[StealthPun Troper McDonald]]:

* TenMinuteRetirement: Trevor McDonald kept coming back... and then back... and then back again whenever ITV needed to boost ratings, with varying degrees of success.

* YetAnotherBabyPanda: mostly at the end, with the cute good news story or bizarre news story. See "Drop the cow" above.

''Bong!'' (break for bed music)<br>

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''Bong!''<br>

!! This is ITV Tropes at Ten... with [[StealthPun Troper McDonald]]":

!! This is the ITV Tropes at Ten... with [[StealthPun Troper McDonald]]":

''Bong!'' (break for bed music)

''Bong!''

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!!! This is the ITV Tropes at Ten... with [[StealthPun Troper McDonald]]":

ITV's most famous news program, running from 1967 to 1999, then being brought back from 2001-2004 and again from 2008-. The {{Revival}} has not been doing too well ratings wise, peaking at only 4.3 million.

Always ends with "[[YetAnotherBabyPanda And Finally]]", a fluff piece after the real news has been covered.

Notable for Creator/TrevorMcDonald, a trope of his own.

!!! "Tropes at Ten":

* DropTheCow: [=NoT=] liked to end the half-hour on an off-beat or ridiculous news item, largely to fill any odd space at the end. For a long time there was no official term for this until one day they covered a frankly bizarre cultural/religious ceremony from Spain that honoured the local patron saint; this involved, for time-honoured reasons, getting a donkey up a church tower and then gently lowering it on ropes to ground level. [=NoT=] became interested when the people lowering the donkey lost their grip on the ropes, and... from that moment on, the bizarre story that ended the night's news broadcast to Great Britain became known as ''The Dead Donkey''. If there was no odd spare time to fill at the end, or if more serious/important news over-ran, the show had no option other than to "drop the dead donkey". It became such a recognised piece of broadcast news jargon that it became the name of a [[Series/DropTheDeadDonkey satirical comedy show set in a TV newsroom]]. [[note]]DTDD gleefully sent up TV news and was dependent on horror stories or anecdotes from disgunteled insiders throwing them a TakeThat or two for its accuracy. ITN was frequently sent up and[=NoT=] was often visible in the guise of the fictitious Globelink News[[/note]]

* DrunkOnDuty: long-standing news anchor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Bosanquet Reginald Bosanquet]], who was notorious for his red face, slightly "not-altogther-with-it" demeanour, and an extremely slurred voice. His alcoholism was an open secret in the business; ITN bosses put up with this as it was suspected viewing figures were boosted by people tuning in to see if he lost it completely.

* DropTheCow: [=NoT=] liked to end the half-hour on an off-beat or ridiculous news item, largely to fill any odd space at the end. For a long time there was no official term for this until one day they covered a frankly bizarre cultural/religious ceremony from Spain that honoured the local patron saint; this involved, for time-honoured reasons, getting a donkey up a church tower and then gently lowering it on ropes to ground level. [=NoT=] became interested when the people lowering the donkey lost their grip on the ropes, and... from that moment on, the bizarre story that ended the night's news broadcast to Great Britain became known as ''The Dead Donkey''. If there was no odd spare time to fill at the end, or if more serious/important news over-ran, the show had no option other than to "drop the dead donkey". It became such a recognised piece of broadcast news jargon that it became the name of a [[Series/DropTheDeadDonkey satirical comedy show set in a TV newsroom]]. [[note]]DTDD gleefully sent up TV news and was dependent on horror stories or anecdotes from disgunteled insiders throwing them a TakeThat or two for its accuracy. ITN was frequently sent up and[=NoT=] was often visible in the guise of the ficitiious Global News[[/note]]

* YetAnotherBabyPanda: mostly at the end, with the cute good news story or bizarre news story.

* CatchPhrase: "Hello, and Welcome to News At Ten." said by Creator/SirTrevorMacDonald.

Notable for Sir [[Creator/SirTrevorMacDonald Trevor [=MacDonald=]]], a trope of his own.