A Current Affair is a television newsmagazine that ran from 1986 to 1996 before reappearing briefly in 2005. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox (and long based at Fox's New York flagship WNYW) and aired on most Fox Television Stations; however, in both incarnations it was a syndicated series, not a Fox Network program.

The logo of the show is a distinctive pyramid with a "zoom-like" sound effect (immortalized as the "ka-chung") for a theme. While showing some hard news stories, the focus of the show is often entertainment, scandals, gossip and exploitative tabloid journalism. It was popular during the 1990s when magazine-type news shows were common during daytime television. Its main competitors were Hard Copy and Inside Edition, along with the many talk shows that dominated daytime TV during the 1990s.

Maury Povich and WNYW news anchors Maureen O'Boyle and Jim Ryan both served as show hosts during its original run. One of its lead personalities was Steve Dunleavy, a columnist for the New York Post, which like WNYW and Fox Television is part of the News Corporation empire.

Initially, the show broadcast as an irreverent, late-night New York City broadcast on WNYW, but as it expanded, the show began to cover stories throughout America that were overlooked or ignored by the then-dominant network news organizations. By 1989, the show's coverage of controversies and scandals caused the show's demographic to change significantly and to challenge the authority of network television news.

A Current Affair (or "ACA") is a nightly tabloid current affairs programme, broadcast on the Nine Network every week night and now hosted by Tracy Grimshaw. It also airs nightly at on Sky News Australia on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Another of the shows that pioneered the "infotainment" genre, blurring the boundaries between news programming and scripted entertainment. Host Maury Povich presented viewers with news segments primarily focused on sex scandals, drugs, religious cults, and whatever else was considered to be the terror of the day. Little research or follow-up was done, and the main goal was to keep audiences titilated. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher