Nightwatch with Steve Scott is a weekday late-night documentary series on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

, first broadcast on 8 January 2008. The series is presented by ITV News

ITV News

ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Since 1955, ITV's news bulletins have been produced by Independent Television News . The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the...

 presenter Steve Scott

Steve Scott (journalist)

Steve Scott is a legendary British newsreader. He was educated at Clifton College and began his career in local radio. Scott currently employed by ITN where he presents on the weekend ITV News bulletins and is the Sports Editor.-ITN:...

 and is produced by ITV Central

Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...

. Nightwatch features various regional ITV programmes focusing on crime and emergency services. The series airs on ITV on various nights, anytime between midnight and 0300. The show was also repeated on ITV-owned digital channel Men & Motors

Men & Motors

Men & Motors was a men's lifestyle television channel in the UK. It was the last remaining station operated by the former Granada Sky Broadcasting joint venture, set up by Granada Television and satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting in 1996...

. Nowadays, Nightwatch with Steve Scott is currentery repeated on ITV1 Channel Television

Channel Television

Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

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The series is presented from a regional news studio (usually used for Central News East) at ITV Central's studios in Gas Street, Birmingham.

Programme strands

• Nightwatch: Crime follows rapid-response road policing units
  Road Policing Unit
  The Road Policing Unit is the term for the Highway patrol within the majority of British police forces.-Responsibilities:RPUs work with the National Roads Policing Strategy, which has five strands:* Casualty reduction.* Counter-terrorism....
  
   or localised vice squads, often from the Greater Manchester Police
  Greater Manchester Police
  Greater Manchester Police is the police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England...
  
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• Nightwatch: Emergency focuses on paramedics or air ambulance units
  Air ambulance
  An air ambulance is an aircraft used for emergency medical assistance in situations where either a traditional ambulance cannot reach the scene easily or quickly enough, or the patient needs to be transported over a distance or terrain that makes air transportation the most practical transport....
  
   (typically from Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham
  Birmingham
  Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
  
  ), and occasionally coastal rescue in the Swansea
  Swansea
  Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
  
   area.
• Nightwatch: Mystery tells stories of unsolved or lengthy cases of serial killing, murder, rape and other grievous crimes — some dating back over a century.
• Nightwatch: Action Stations which focuses on The work of fighter pilots and ground troops on duty in Afghanistan, plus insights into Air Sea Rescue and the Red Arrows aerobatic team.

Featured programmes

Regional programmes featured in the series include:

• Crimefighters - various versions produced by ITV Granada
  Granada Television
  Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
  
  , ITV Yorkshire
  Yorkshire Television
  Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
  
  , ITV Border
  Border Television
  Border Television is the ITV franchise holder for the Border region, spanning the England/Scotland border and covering Dumfries & Galloway region, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria...
  
   and ITV Central
  Central Independent Television
  Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...
  
  
• Helicops - produced by ITV Wales
  HTV
  HTV, now legally known as ITV Wales & West, is the ITV contractor for Wales and the West of England, which operated from studios in Cardiff and Bristol. The company provided commercial television for the dual-region 'Wales and West' franchise, which it won from TWW in 1968...
  
  
• True Crimes - produced by ITV Border
  Border Television
  Border Television is the ITV franchise holder for the Border region, spanning the England/Scotland border and covering Dumfries & Galloway region, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria...
  
  
• Emergency: Medics - produced by ITV West and ITV Westcountry