Editing Primetime (American TV program) (section)

===Cancellation and changes===
In 1998, ABC, in an effort to consolidate all of their news magazines, cancelled ''Primetime Live'' and combined it with ABC's other well-known news magazine, ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]''. The move was made to compete more effectively with [[NBC]]'s ''[[Dateline NBC|Dateline]]'', which ran multiple nights of the week. In 2000, however, ABC relaunched the program. It was renamed ''Primetime Thursday'' with [[Charles Gibson]], after they replaced Donaldson.

In 2003, ABC aired a short-lived 2003 continuation of the newsmagazine, ''[[20/20 (American TV program)#20.2F20 Downtown|20/20 Downtown]],'' as ''Primetime Monday''.

Beginning in the 2004&ndash;2005 season, the show was known once again as ''Primetime Live''. Its pair of co-hosts from the previous four seasons, [[Charles Gibson]] and [[Diane Sawyer]], was replaced by the rotating team of Sawyer, [[David Muir]], [[Chris Cuomo]], [[Cynthia McFadden]] and [[John Quiñones]]. The format shifted back to investigative reporting and a new executive producer, Shelley Ross, was brought on board. On July 21, 2005, the show's title was changed to ''Primetime''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20050718abc18 |title=Listings &#124; TheFutonCritic.com – The Web's Best Television Resource |publisher=TheFutonCritic.com |date=July 18, 2005 |access-date=July 31, 2012}}</ref>

Beginning in the 2006–2007 television season, the news magazine adopted a subseries format, where multiple episodes would be focused on one topic such as crime and medical mysteries, with no set weekly timeslot. Sawyer departed the program around the time this change in format occurred, though she occasionally anchored special editions of ''Primetime''. [[David Muir]] joined as co-anchor in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2007/03/23/david-muir-named-anchor-of-abcs-world-news-saturday-and-co-anchor-of-primetime-23976/20070323abc01/|title=Breaking News – David Muir Named Anchor of ABC's "World News Saturday" and Co-Anchor of "Primetime" – TheFutonCritic.com|website=www.thefutoncritic.com|access-date=June 3, 2017}}</ref> ''[[What Would You Do? (2008 TV program)|What Would You Do?]]'' has become the most popular sub-series and can be regularly seen on ABC, often with a set timeslot. In 2011 ABC aired a [[special edition]] of ''Primetime'': an interview by [[Diane Sawyer]] with [[Jaycee Dugard]]. In 2012, beginning with the sixth season, the ''Primetime'' branding was removed from the ''What Would You Do?'' show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120912abc01/|title=Listings – TheFutonCritic.com – The Web's Best Television Resource|website=www.thefutoncritic.com|access-date=June 3, 2017}}</ref> It still airs sans branding and is anchored by Quiñones. The branding has not been used by any program or special since this time.