The Nation

The Nation, billed as The Nation with Leo Hastings since 2024, is the flagship weekly internet television current affairs programme of TiBB News, the news division of TiBB Networks. Since its reformatting in 2020, it has been presented by Leo Hastings.
==History==
===Original format===
The programme started airing July 2018, after original current affairs show Story was cancelled. The Nation in its original format focused solely on stories on things that affected the nations in which TiBB1 serves. It originally aired weekly on Sunday nights at 11pm BT/ET and was presented by Josiah Stuart. After some controversy caused by mysterious social media trolls, Josiah left the anchor chair, and production left the door open to return at any time. During this time, in which it was affected by low ratings, had a plethora of anchors, most of which were interim anchors.
===Current format===
Since its 2020 reformatting, it also focuses on in-depth analysis of the news of the week, as well as political stories. The show also would gain exclusive access to the Government of TiBB's building, with interviews with many of the MPs in TiBB Parliament in the lead up to the 2020 TiBB General Election and the US 2020 Presidential election. During the episode happening during the 2020 TiBB General Election campaign, Leo conducted a debate with all three candidates before the polling began just days later; at the same time, the show then moved to its current Sunday morning slot at 10:30am BT/ET. In April 2023, as the show began to be simulcast on TPB4; The Nation received exclusive access again for the 2023 TiBB General Election.
On 5 May 2024, The Nation gained a the graphics package that TiBB News introduced in December 2023. On the same day, the live simulcast moved to TiBB News 24 as TPB4 closed down at 12am on 30 April 2024.
==Presenters==
===Current===
* Leo Hastings (since 12 April 2020)
* Adrian Keith (interim, 6 October 2019-29 March 2020; substitute, since 28 April 2024)
===Former===
* Josiah Stuart (22 July 2018-31 March 2019)
* Wendy Roberts (interim, 7 April 2019-2 June 2019)
* Aiden Legault (interim, 9 June 2019-1 September 2019)
* Laetitia Aux-Sept (interim, 8 September 2019-29 September 2019; 26 January 2020-5 April 2020)
==Titlecards==
File:The Nation 2020 Logo.png|The titlecard for The Nation used from 26 January 2020 until 16 April 2023.
File:The Nation 2023 Titlecard.png|The titlecard for The Nation used from 23 April 2023 until 28 April 2023.
File:The Nation 2024 Titlecard.png|The titlecard for The Nation used since 5 May 2024.
==External links==
*Official website