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Weekend (talk show)

British television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ17034998 ↗
Source-derived summary

Weekend is a British lifestyle show that aired on ITV from 26 April 2014 to 3 September 2017 and was presented by Aled Jones. On 22 March 2018 ITV announced that the show had been cancelled.

Format

Weekend featured a mixture of chat and musical guests.

Aled Jones presented the programme on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Of this appointment, Jones said "What more can I ask for than a mix of all of the things I love! It's a dream come true to present a show I've always wanted to watch and I can't wait to get started".

The show also had a feature on people with strange talents or hobbies, called 'We're Talking in the Air', a pun on "Walking in the Air", a song famously covered by Jones.

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Production

Episodes of Weekend were pre-recorded at the Cactus Studios in London.

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“Weekend (talk show)” enters the record as british television program. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Weekend, talk and show can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Weekend, talk and show.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17034998. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Weekend (talk show)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.