Jeremy Vine to replace Matthew Wright on Channel 5's Wright Stuff slot

Vine will continue to present his Radio 2 show alongside the new daily current affairs programme

(Rex Features)

Jeremy Vine will take over Channel 5’s daily current affairs programme from Matthew Wright.

Wright has served as the presenter of The Wright Stuff for 18 years and announced his departure from the show last month.

The newly titled Channel 5 show will relaunch in September, Vine continuing to present The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 alongside the new role.

"Matthew Wright has built a brilliant show that's a big part of the British TV landscape," the broadcaster said in a statement.

"I'm delighted to be carrying on all the conversations he has started, with all the guests he's made me feel I know over the years.

"Radio 2 has a beautiful editorial overlap with the serious but accessible agenda of this show. I am proud to be Channel 5's choice to front it."

Channel 5's director of programmes, Ben Frow, said Wright would be "sorely missed" but added: “Jeremy Vine is a brilliant broadcaster whose supreme ability to make challenging stories accessible to a wider audience, not to mention his intellect, energy and wit, makes him the perfect choice to present our daily current affairs show."

Over 500 hours of The Wright Stuff were broadcast every year, the presenter recently saying that "the demands of getting up for a daytime show" were part of the reasons for leaving.

"I'm up at three o'clock in the morning these days and I go to bed at half seven," Wright said on Loose Women. "I've had 18 and a half years of it, Mrs Wright, we pass like ships in the night and you're looking around and thinking, at some point you've got to have a change."

With Vine as presenter, the show will continue to broadcast for 120 minutes every weekday between 9:15am and 11:15am. Vine will then travel from ITN's North London studio to Radio 2's West London studio to record his Radio 2 show, which begins at midday. Vine also continues to host Eggheads.