The Nightly Show
- TV comedy
- ITV1
- 2017
- 39 episodes (1 series)
A nightly comedy and entertainment series broadcast on ITV. A different guest host each week. Stars David Walliams, John Bishop, Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary, Gordon Ramsay and more.
Press clippings
The Nightly Show cancelled
ITV has confirmed that The Nightly Show won't return, admitting the format "did not perform as well as we had hoped".
British Comedy Guide, 1st March 2018Euan Ferguson's best television of 2017
Includes Motherland, Car Share and W1A, while flops include The Nightly Show.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 10th December 2017Video: Ellie Taylor talks about The Nightly Show
It's fair to say that The Nightly Show wasn't exactly a hit for ITV, and Ellie Taylor, who appeared served as a guest announcer, has now shared her theory on how it could be improved.
The Huffington Post, 26th April 2017Was ITV's The Nightly Show a success?
ITV's The Nightly Show didn't get off to the strongest start - but its fortunes improved over its eight-week run.
BBC, 22nd April 2017The Nightly Show with Dermot O'Leary: final week review
The Nightly Show started out as train-wreck telly in which the (entirely unintentional) crashes, bangs and wallops never ceased. But as ITV's disastrous 10pm chat-fest entered the final week of its first (and presumably only) season it had achieved a dreary variety show competency.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 17th April 2017This is a desperate take on the US talkshow
Stricken presenters, weedy attempts at satire and sketches that urgently need to go back to the drawing board all grate in the late-night TV shocker.
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 15th April 2017Lee Mack, Barry Cryer and Richard Osman talk satire
We can only hope The Nightly Show takes the criticism on board and find its own groove when the time comes - assuming human civilisation hasn't already ended, of course.
Radio Times, 13th April 2017The Nightly Show with Jason Manford review
With the lights dimmed comedian Jason Manford could pass for a less expensively-dressed James Corden. Which is presumably why ITV picked the motor-mouthed Mancunian as week seven presenter - yes it's been that long - of its flailing stab at an American-style chat show.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 11th April 201714 guest hosts we think could save The Nightly Show
With the news that The Nightly Show could well be coming back for another series as early as this autumn, the show is going to need a shake-up if it's going to avoid a mauling with its second throw of the dice.
Daniel Welsh, The Huffington Post, 6th April 2017Dermot O'Leary to return to The Nightly Show
Dermot O'Leary has been handed a second stint as host of The Nightly Show, amid its on-going ratings struggle.
Ash Percival, The Huffington Post, 4th April 2017