The Nightly Show

The Nightly Show with Davina McCall, review

A decent stab at steering clapped-out vehicle.

Why a daily satire TV show is so hard to get right

It was a bold scheduling move on the part of ITV, the UK's main commercial television channel. Shifting the nightly news programme to make way for Britain's latest attempt at a US-style late night talk show was always going to be risky. And so far, critics and viewers seem united in their response to The Nightly Show: they can barely watch.

Davina McCall quits Twitter while hosting Nightly Show

She said that people could "fill yer boots" in tweeting any hate about the show as she won't be reading it.

Adam Hills: Nightly Show should stick with 1 presenter

Comedian and TV presenter Adam Hills has said ITV's struggling The Nightly Show might be down to changing hosts every week.

The mad world of politics means it's a time of proliferating comment. On US TV, that has meant a degree of anarchy and improved ratings for the likes of Saturday Night Live. Here, we struggle to reach that level of mania: The Nightly Show opened with David Walliams talking to Martin Clunes, for example. This week, things may get wilder: Davina McCall is no stranger to the chimps' tea party of live TV, so might feel more comfortable with chaos.

Nightly Show's a sign British TV isn't funny anymore

The solution? Spend more and more money (it's there) on comedy writers and producers because that's where it starts, and let them create what they want. Otherwise, TV comedy of all kinds in the UK will continue to suffer a very slow and painful death.

Blushing ITV bosses rethink Nightly Show flop

"If the ratings haven't improved dramatically by the end of next week, the News At Ten will be restored to its proper time," an ITV source tells me. "To spare our blushes, The Nightly Show will continue, but it will be broadcast after the news finishes. There's a recognition that we are destroying the news."

John Bishop's wife says The Nightly Show is 's**t'

The host revealed his partner called parts of the show 'rubbish'.

The Royal Television Society gong last week for ITV newsreader Tom Bradby as TV Presenter of the Year followed ITV's decision last year to pour money into News at Ten - a sign ITV wanted to present a serious challenge once more to the BBC's 10pm bulletin.

So it is unfortunate that Bradby's prize came just two days after ITV had bumped News at Ten down the running order to 10.30, to make way for The Nightly Show, the dire new entertainment offering that will occupy the 10pm slot for the next two months. Thanks to the switch, on the first night of broadcast the newly-christened News at 10.30 lost 400,000 viewers.

Newspapers were swift to lambast its useless usurper. "The Nightly Show... look like a resounding flop," the Daily Mail harrumphed. "By airing such trivia at 10pm, ITV has abandoned the prime news slot to the BBC - thus tightening the oh-so-liberal corporation's stranglehold on the nation's news agenda. This is bad for journalism, bad for media plurality - and ultimately bad for democracy. ITV should be ashamed."

It's also bad for ITN, of course, which produces News at Ten and happens to be 20 percent owned by the Daily Mail & General Trust - an interest the Mail's editorial absent-mindedly omitted to declare.

Mel and Sue get 'cold feet' and shun The Nightly Show

Mel and Sue have pulled out of talks to host ITV's The Nightly Show after the new project received dismal ratings and awful reviews.