The Nightly Show [ITV Nightly Talkshow Monday-Friday 10pm, also on 3e]

Skid X

ITV are having a go at copying the American style late night talk shows. It has been tried before in the UK but never with great success.


The Nightly Show will run from Monday February 27th at 10pm for 8 weeks, with a different presenter each week.

David Walliams kicks it off, John Bishop and Gordon Ramsay are signed up for future weeks.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-02-24/what-time-is-the-nightly-show-on-tv-and-who-is-hosting


If it does well, it'll likely become a permanent fixture in the schedules.

Lady Chatterton

Thanks for the heads up Skid, I love the sound of it.

Harry Palmr

God I bet this is toe curling, smooze central

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

If it does well, it'll likely become a permanent fixture in the schedules.

Which could well mean that the News at Ten name will permanently disappear from the ITV schedules once again...

The first time this happened was in March 1999, when the original NAT was axed after 32 years in order to allow dramas and other primetime entertainment shows to air uninterrupted, with a short Nightly News bulletin following at 11pm.

This was a disaster and so ITV reluctantly revived NAT in January 2001 - but only for three nights a week, and not always at 10pm (resulting in the programme being unceremoniously dubbed "News at When?"). This lasted for three years, before the programme was axed again in January 2004 and replaced with a bulletin at 10:30.

Only in January 2008 was NAT permanently reinstated, airing Mondays to Thursdays at first (with a Late News bulletin at 11pm on Fridays) before going the full five nights in March 2009. During late 2015 and early 2016, the programme was restructured to become somewhat more like Newsnight on BBC2.

The commissioning of this new talk show has inevitably raised questions about ITV's commitment to NAT. However, Robert Peston believes it's good news for the programme regardless - even if the move away from 10pm (and hence the loss of the News at Ten name) does become permanent:

The Guardian wrote:

The influential political editor said he hoped the Nightly Show, which is to be hosted by personalities including David Walliams and Gordon Ramsay over the next eight weeks, would succeed in the 10pm time slot it is taking from the News At Ten.

“The simple point is that if it goes incredibly well, then that’s great for the news because it will bring us a bigger audience at 10.30pm. And if it doesn’t, then the truth is we’ll revert back to 10 o’clock,” said Peston.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/26/robert-peston-itv-news-at-ten-nightly-show-sky-news-bbc-news

grey_so_what

Thanks Skid, will take a look!

Skid X

grey_so_what wrote: »

Thanks Skid, will take a look!

Not great so far, to be honest gsw. Considering the schedule changes ITV made to accommodate it the show looks rather cheap and underwritten.


One particularly cringeworthy exchange


David Walliams (to Kim Cattrall) "Just for fun Kim, how many cats would it take to overpower you?!"

Kim Cattrall (visibly uncomfortable) "Oh, eh ... to be honest my beloved cat just passed away .. I miss her "

David Walliams "Oh I am so sorry, lets move on ..."


Awkward.

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

Not great so far, to be honest gsw. Considering the schedule changes ITV made to accommodate it the show looks rather cheap and underwritten.


One particularly cringeworthy exchange


David Walliams (to Kim Cattrall) "Just for fun Kim, how many cats would it take to overpower you?!"

Kim Cattrall (visibly uncomfortable) "Oh, eh ... to be honest my beloved cat just passed away .. I miss her "

David Walliams "Oh I am so sorry, lets move on ..."


Awkward.

:eek:!

Uh oh!! Not great..:(

Will give it a gander at some stage, thanks Skid

mikeoneilly

Anyone watching this ,it's been slammed by viewers and critics

I watched the first 15 minutes with Rob drydon and I thought it was quite passable

brian_t

mikeoneilly wrote: »

Anyone watching this ,it's been slammed by viewers and critics

I watched the first 15 minutes with Rob drydon and I thought it was quite passable

The Nightly Show [ITV Nightly Talkshow Monday-Friday 10pm, also on 3e]

mikeoneilly

It's not as good tonite

Walliams is not a funny person at all

JP Liz V1

Bishop this week

Skid X

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Bishop this week

I quite liked their handover interview where they discussed how the show needed to do better

This show has been slated in the UK and ratings are poor. I hope it improves.