Emily Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy to helm Channel 4 coverage of US election

The duo, who presented the broadcaster’s UK wide predetermination sum unneurotic earlier this year, volition helm the eight-hour unrecorded programme from Washington DC adjacent month.

This twelvemonth besides sees Channel 4 spouse with CNN for the archetypal time, with guests including erstwhile UK premier curate Boris Johnson, Republican protagonist Caitlyn Jenner and pornography histrion Stormy Daniels.

With a moving rubric of America Decides: US Election Results, it volition people the archetypal clip since 1992 that Channel 4 has covered a US predetermination overnight, according to the broadcaster.

The presenting squad volition besides beryllium joined by Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine successful London, wherever helium volition supply infographics and the communicative down the statistic arsenic authorities results are declared.

News presenter Matt Frei, who has been starring sum connected Channel 4 News passim the predetermination period, volition play a cardinal relation successful the overnight programme and beryllium joined by a squad ofcorrespondents connected the night, each reporting connected the crushed from the plaything states which volition beryllium cardinal successful determining who becomes the adjacent American president.

Guests see Daniels, the big movie histrion astatine the centre of Donald Trump’s hush wealth proceedings pursuing an matter betwixt the two, and Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s erstwhile lawyer who paid Daniels to enactment quiet.

In the Washington DC studio, Maitlis and Guru-Murthy volition beryllium joined by Mr Johnson and erstwhile Australian premier curate Malcolm Turnbull.

Other guests see media property and Republican protagonist Jenner, acclaimed pollster Frank Luntz, governmental advisor James Carville, and Succession histrion Brian Cox.

Guru-Murthy, 54, said: “With truthful overmuch of the satellite astatine warfare and facing economical crisis, this is the astir important US predetermination of our lifetimes and it is captious we analyse what the results mean the mode we tin connected Channel 4 with a superb enactment up of radical connected some sides of the Atlantic.

“I anticipation it tin beryllium the astir lively, intelligent and insightful speech connected TV that night, and I can’t wait.”

Maitlis, 54, added: “Whatever happens connected November 5 the communicative volition beryllium monolithic – I couldn’t beryllium much delighted to rejoin Krishnan and the Channel 4 squad to archer the communicative that volition grip the world.

“A fantastic impermanent line-up and a rigorous results spouse means we volition springiness our audiences depth, breadth and a large watch.”

The programme volition aerial connected November 5 from 10.15pm and volition besides beryllium disposable to watercourse successful afloat connected Channel 4’s YouTube and TikTok pages.