Sky News reboots Hotspots
November 21, 2025
Sky News is rebooting its Hotspots TV brands as a new digital-first format.
The new Hotspots series takes viewers into some of the world’s most hostile environments with Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, Special Correspondent Alex Crawford, and their teams as they navigate the dangers and complexities of frontline reporting. From dodging a gunfire in Syria to navigating gang-controlled streets in Haiti, Hotspots shines a light not only on the stories themselves but how those stories are captured. It serves as a testament to the journalists who venture into some of the world’s most hostile and difficult to reach places to bring the truth to light.
Using only natural sound and raw action gathered in the field – and with the entire team filming and mic’d up – the series captures every moment from multiple angles on cameras, Osmos, and GoPros, immersing audiences in an unfiltered reality. This constant, multi-perspective coverage seeks to deliver transparency in an era of fake news, giving viewers a real-time look at how Sky News’s eyewitness storytelling unfolds on the front lines – and the challenges journalists face to uncover the truth.
Locations that feature during the series include:
- Syria: Caught in the crossfire between armed groups
- Haiti: Inside displacement camps where hostility takes on a different face
- Somalia: Tracking ISIS hideouts in remote terrain
- Colombia: Tracking Coca farmers deep in the Amazon
- The West Bank: Reporting under constant watch from Israeli forces
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Libya: Discovering overloaded migrant dinghies drifting in the dark
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