TV - This World – Obama: What Happened to Hope?

BBC Two

Sunday 28^th October, 8pm

With the U.S presidential election upon us, Andrew Marr looks back on Barack Obama’s first term in office, from the moment many of us thought we may never see when he became the first black American President, through the many pitfalls that have marred his time in office and the battle he now faces against his Republican competitor, Mitt Romney.

Through candid interviews with Obama’s personal White House staff and some of his closest advisors, Marr assesses whether this history-making presidency has lived up to its huge expectations.

On a lighter note, BBC Two are also airing Family Guys: What Sitcoms Say About America the night before (Saturday 27^th) at 10.15pm, in which historian, Tim Stanley, uses sitcoms past and present to reveal a forward-thinking, progressive country whose politicians need to catch up with what their voters really think about election-winning (or losing) topics like gay rights, abortion, race and religion.