The Sarah-Jane Mee Show


The Sarah-Jane Mee Show, formerly The Kay Burley Show, Sky News with Kay Burley, Lunchtime Live and Afternoon Live, is a weekday news programme in the United Kingdom on Sky News, presented by Sarah-Jane Mee. It combines rolling-news coverage with debates and interviews on the day's issues. The show airs between 2pm5pm Monday to Thursday, followed by The News Hour with Mark Austin. It is not broadcast on Fridays.
The show is currently broadcast from the "Glass Box", actually Studio 21, Sky Central, Osterley. It has also been broadcast from the UK party conferences.

History

Until October 2007, the programme ran for two hours, and aired between 12pm2pm, under the name of Lunchtime Live. Thereafter the programme, known as Afternoon Live ran for 4 hours until the launch of The Live Desk in September 2008. From October 2016, the programme was moved to run from 3pm6:30pm, as part of a new schedule. On Friday, as a result of no Ian King Live from 6:30pm7pm, the show ran until 7pm.
On 11 April 2011 the Afternoon Live name was axed as part of a wider refresh at Sky News; the strand was then simply known as Sky News. It was presented by Sarah Hewson on Friday, or Gamal Fahnbulleh when she is unavailable. Afternoon Live is also the name of a news programme on BBC News between 2pm5pm on weekdays since 9 October 2017, usually presented by Simon McCoy.
From September 2018, the afternoon slot on the channel was again rebranded to The Kay Burley Show, broadcast between 2pm5pm Monday to Thursday.
In September 2019, Sky News announced changes to their schedule, including Burley moving to present a new breakfast show. As part of the reorganisation, Sunrise presenter Sarah-Jane Mee would move to presenting the afternoon show in Burley's place. The programme was renamed The Sarah-Jane Mee Show on Monday 14 October 2019.