"This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) in covering global events through current affairs and other factual programmes on television channels. To achieve this, we analysed the volume, originality, scheduling, genre, and geographic focus of international (non-news) factual programmes broadcast on the main seven UK public service channels – BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV 1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 – in 2023 and 2024. Our most striking finding is that well over half of all international factual programmes were travelogues. This genre was especially common on ITV 1, Channel 5, BBC Four and BBC Two. However, we also identified a distinct lack of diversity amongst the presenters of these programmes. Nine of the ten most frequently appearing presenters of international travelogues were men. The only woman to feature on this top ten list was the singer and television presenter, Jane McDonald, who presented programmes such as Jane McDonald: Lost in Japan on Channel 5. The journalist and broadcaster, Clive Myrie was the only non-white presenter in the top ten. We also find that international factual programmes were very heavily concentrated on a small number of countries. Two thirds of international factual programming in our sample focussed on just 15 countries – with the USA, Italy and Spain receiving the most coverage – primarily in the form of travelogues. Although the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza both received a significant amount of coverage in documentaries and current affairs programmes, 35 countries experiencing humanitarian crises collectively received just 6.5% of all international factual programming across both years. Chad, the Central African Republic and Burundi received no coverage at all. In 2024, approximately six million people in Chad needed humanitarian assistance due to a protracted and multidimensional humanitarian crisis." (Executive summary)