In the UK, what we would consider late-night talk shows tend to air late in the evening on Fridays (Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton) or Saturdays (Michael Parkinson). Norton did do a strip for a year or two about a decade ago before he moved from Channel 4 to the BBC, but it hasn't been tried since then. The predominant commercial channel ITV is about to try it, with a title of "The Nightly Show" (sounds familiar) and an eight-week test run at 10 p.m. against BBC1's "The 10 O'Clock News," moving that British TV institution "News at Ten" to 10:30 p.m. (since it worked so well twice, from 1999 to 2001 and 2004 to 2008--NOT!). There will be a different guest host for each week, starting with David Walliams of "Little Britain" fame for the first week (the other hosts have yet to be announced):
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38103239 If the show is going to have the same house band, bandleader and announcer for the test run, I suspect that whoever gets picked as permanent host might not be the one with the strongest comedy material, but the one that gets along with the bandleader and announcer the best. Of course, I'm assuming that ITV would like the show to be a viral video magnet like all American late-night shows are expected to be these days. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
