The Nightly Show on ITV
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What, in God's name, is this piece-of-cr*p show.
Cringey, awkward and unfunny.
Cannot believe they pushed out News at Ten.
http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/the-nig...
Cringey, awkward and unfunny.
Cannot believe they pushed out News at Ten.
http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/the-nig...
The TV channels are so desperate for us to watch an American style 'Late Show', that they keep trying things like this, all of which fail miserably.
The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete s
te though.
The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete s
te though.briang9 said:
DoctorX said:
David Walliams. That's enough for me to give this a wide berth.
Indeed, about as funny as every horrible disease you could ever imagine, utterly useless, talentless arseAwful.
But mercifully I believe this show will be presented by different people each week.
So how long before this crap gets cancelled then? Any guesses?
NinjaPower said:
The TV channels are so desperate for us to watch an American style 'Late Show', that they keep trying things like this, all of which fail miserably...
The nearest they've ever got was 'Wogan' in the '80s and that was an early evening slot rather than at the end of the evening like the American shows.I suspect the problem is that they always use a presenter who is already a well known name so they are often are a bigger star than the people they are interviewing and have a natural inclination to dominate the screen time.
Seems to be that if you're going to be successful with a show like this, you have to have a presenter and research team who go into an interview knowing the interviewee inside out and with a planned outcome.
The interview with Kim Katrall last night came across like a bloke in a pub who's unexpectedly found himself sitting next to a star and is trying to make polite conversation.
Comedy pieces have to get the joke and get on with it - surprised Walliams made such a meal of the 'Trump interview'.
If you're going to do random pieces like the quiz show interlude, they've got to be worth talking about the next day. That was sub pub-quiz stuff.
Have to say that Katherine Ryan is possibly one of the most reliable comedians around at the moment. She seems to be able to produce a coherent, fairly relevant item to order, whether it's in print or on screen.
I can't blame Walliams for the show though, it has no ambition or commitment and utterly disposable content. It's not just that last night's show had nothing to be remembered five minutes after it had finished, but that the format and production left no opportunity for anything to happen that would be remembered. Whether or not you like James Cordon, his car-pool karaoke pieces get shared around the world. That's the difference here - not the presenter, but the disastrously under-developed production.
The interview with Kim Katrall last night came across like a bloke in a pub who's unexpectedly found himself sitting next to a star and is trying to make polite conversation.
Comedy pieces have to get the joke and get on with it - surprised Walliams made such a meal of the 'Trump interview'.
If you're going to do random pieces like the quiz show interlude, they've got to be worth talking about the next day. That was sub pub-quiz stuff.
Have to say that Katherine Ryan is possibly one of the most reliable comedians around at the moment. She seems to be able to produce a coherent, fairly relevant item to order, whether it's in print or on screen.
I can't blame Walliams for the show though, it has no ambition or commitment and utterly disposable content. It's not just that last night's show had nothing to be remembered five minutes after it had finished, but that the format and production left no opportunity for anything to happen that would be remembered. Whether or not you like James Cordon, his car-pool karaoke pieces get shared around the world. That's the difference here - not the presenter, but the disastrously under-developed production.
NinjaPower said:
The TV channels are so desperate for us to watch an American style 'Late Show', that they keep trying things like this, all of which fail miserably.
The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete ste though.
I don't fundamentally see an issue with the style of show, you could argue that Jonathon Ross and Graham Norton successfully do a show like the US Late Shows but for one night a week.The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete s
te though.The problem is the limited resources we have, the big stars in the US are global stars where as I'm not sure how many Americans would have a clue who our Soap Stars or top sportspeople are. Also look at the size of the States, everyday they produce enough highly noticeable news content to fill the topical segments of these type of shows, whereas in the UK we probably need a week to achieve the same said volume, again hence why Jonathon Ross and Graham Norton seem to work.
I did watch the nightly show last night and another comment that rang true was one Kim Catrell made about no band. The US shows are big productions, live band/band leader for the host to bounce off. The nightly just appears to be a cheap production.
I've not watched it (and won't, unless I mistakenly turn over to it at the wrong time) but it got 2.9m viewers on Monday, largely coming off the back of the new Broadchurch series and yesterday started out with 1.3m viewers which dropped to 1.1m at the end.
It will probably continue to pull viewers from The News following it, which won't go down too well.
It's supposed to air for an 8 week run with a different presenter each week (including star talent such as Mel & Sue, Davina McCall and John Bishop). God help us.
If the viewing figures carry on declining like this for the next couple of weeks, don't expect to have to put up with it for much longer.
It will probably continue to pull viewers from The News following it, which won't go down too well.
It's supposed to air for an 8 week run with a different presenter each week (including star talent such as Mel & Sue, Davina McCall and John Bishop). God help us.
If the viewing figures carry on declining like this for the next couple of weeks, don't expect to have to put up with it for much longer.
I quite liked itv news at 10 - way less bias than the BBC & very nice weather presenters (although Becky Mantin appears to have been on the pies...).
Now they go & put on this st; I thought they had ITVbe for this stuff?? I can't be arsed to watch TV after 10.30, so a fail from me. I suspect there are many other viewers who'll be turned off by this also.
Now they go & put on this s
t; I thought they had ITVbe for this stuff?? I can't be arsed to watch TV after 10.30, so a fail from me. I suspect there are many other viewers who'll be turned off by this also.I cannot see how swapping presenters each week will do the formats success any favours.
U.S audiences watch/are loyal to specific nightly shows for the personality who presents it. The content/jokes are often very similar in all those nightly shows, so it is the specific hosts style/delivery that wins the audience.
If you switch off one week because someone you do not like is presenting, you are instantly out of th habit of watching again and are harder to win back in! Presume they probably didn't have much choice but to make it HIGNFY-esque.
There is simply not enough 'local' guests to keep it good, they struggle getting the caliber of guest on Jonathan Ross once a week, so filling five other week day slots is going to be hard.
As much as I dislike Graham Norton, his show on a Friday really does the whole entertainment chat show well. They also nab the better quality guests.
U.S audiences watch/are loyal to specific nightly shows for the personality who presents it. The content/jokes are often very similar in all those nightly shows, so it is the specific hosts style/delivery that wins the audience.
If you switch off one week because someone you do not like is presenting, you are instantly out of th habit of watching again and are harder to win back in! Presume they probably didn't have much choice but to make it HIGNFY-esque.
There is simply not enough 'local' guests to keep it good, they struggle getting the caliber of guest on Jonathan Ross once a week, so filling five other week day slots is going to be hard.
As much as I dislike Graham Norton, his show on a Friday really does the whole entertainment chat show well. They also nab the better quality guests.
NinjaPower said:
The TV channels are so desperate for us to watch an American style 'Late Show', that they keep trying things like this, all of which fail miserably.
The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete ste though.
Failed because terrible. I used to love The Daily Show.The reason they fail miserably is that:
a) This isn't America.
b) We aren't American.
I have to say though, pushing our News at Ten to make way for this is their boldest effort yet.
It'll still be complete s
te though.Produced by Richard Osman too.
Edited by MarshPhantom on Wednesday 1st March 17:17
A topical news-comedy show can be done well. The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4, spawning Ali G and others, for example.
The Nightly Show would probably benefit from having 2 presenters, plus 2 or 3 supporting acts, to spread the load. Half-an-hour for one person every day is probably too much.
Anyhoo, as others have said, ratings are collapsing for the new show and it is unlikely to get a second series.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4271228/Vi...
The Nightly Show would probably benefit from having 2 presenters, plus 2 or 3 supporting acts, to spread the load. Half-an-hour for one person every day is probably too much.
Anyhoo, as others have said, ratings are collapsing for the new show and it is unlikely to get a second series.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4271228/Vi...
I can't see this doing well, we're just not interested in nightly shows like this.
That being said, if I could watch James Cordon's US show easily I'd probably dip in/out of it.
I also found it a bit weird how David Walliams dropped his camp act for the advert of this show...I was waiting for the (inevitable) campness to make an appearance.
That being said, if I could watch James Cordon's US show easily I'd probably dip in/out of it.
I also found it a bit weird how David Walliams dropped his camp act for the advert of this show...I was waiting for the (inevitable) campness to make an appearance.
Trabi601 said:
That ventriloquist woman is bloody awful.
GTFO. Now!Nina Conti?
I accidentally stumbled into watching the first night of this drivel expecting the news. I sat through to the end only because I wanted to see the news. It was awful. Probably the worst piece of TV I've seen that I can remember. Walliams was terrible, not very funny at all. His interview with Clunes was like watching a sycophants' mutual appreciation contest. Conti was the best bit of the show, but didn't get enough screen time IMHO.
I saw a piece online about how it's viewing figures crashed after the first show. 3 million down to something like 1.3 million, or along those lines. I'm not surprised. The first show's figures could have been largely made up of people wanting their late night news fix who just sat through it in a state of shock. As soon as they recovered their wits they made sure they didn't tune in the next night.
Poor concept, executed badly. I can't see it lasting beyond the presenters that are currently contracted to appear. It's not as if they'd have to scrabble around to cobble together a replacement show, after all. Just bring the news back to the 10 o'clock slot and stick a Columbo repeat on afterwards and it's fixed. Old episodes of Columbo would probably draw more viewers to be fair.
What on earth were ITV's commissioning editors thinking...
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