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This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Format	News
Created by	Roone Arledge
Starring	George Stephanopoulos (panelist 1997-2002; anchor 2002-present) Sam Donaldson (co-anchor 1996-2002; panelist 1981-1996 and 2002-present) Cokie Roberts (co-anchor 1996-2002; panelist 1988-1996 and 2002-present) George Will (panelist 1981-present) David Brinkley (anchor 1981-1996)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	N/A
Production
Running time	1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	1981 (As This Week with David Brinkley) – present
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

This Week is one of the five network U.S. Sunday morning political talk shows. It has aired on Sunday mornings on ABC since 1981; the program is initially aired at 9:00 AM ET, although almost all stations air the program later. George Stephanopoulos has hosted the program since September 2002.

From 1981 to 1996, it was hosted by David Brinkley and known as This Week with David Brinkley. After Brinkley retired, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts hosted, with the according program name change. Ever since Stephanopoulos took over, the program has been known as This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

One of the key features of This Week is the Roundtable, which includes pundits such as George Will and Fareed Zakaria, ABC News correspondents such as Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, and others discussing the major issues of the week. Will, a panelist ever since the program's start with David Brinkley, also contributes short reports to the broadcast.

Other key features include The List, which includes "voices" and "images" segments (often combined into one), which spotlight a notable newsmaker, the "Sunday funnies," a collection of late-night jokes, and In Memoriam, a listing of prominent celebrity deaths and a listing of all military deaths from that week.

ABC News programming, including This Week, is shown weekly on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in Europe and the Middle East. In Australia it airs on Sky News Australia.In Japan it airs on NHK.

• David Brinkley (1981-1996)
• Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts (1996-2002)
• George Stephanopoulos (2002-Present)

With the exception of George Will, who is currently a fixed member of the Roundtable, the following is a list of some of the regular panelists who appear each week, typically 3-4 at a time (not including the moderator), though some -- such as Cokie Roberts and Fareed Zakaria -- appear more regularly than others:

• George Will
• Cokie Roberts
• Sam Donaldson
• Fareed Zakaria
• Martha Raddatz
• Torie Clarke
• Donna Brazile
• Jay Carney
• Claire Shipman
• E.J. Dionne, Jr.
• Robert Reich
• David Corn
• Katrina vanden Heuvel
• Mark Halperin
• Joe Klein
• David Brooks

• ABC News
• Sunday-morning interview shows
• Meet the Press
• Face the Nation
• Fox News Sunday
• Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer

• This Week with George Stephanopoulos
• ABC Medianet Page

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