'Frost Tonight': Sir David to front ITV London politics show

As previously discussed here, the Sunday regional politics shows are moving to 11pm Thursdays. London's is currently presented by Nick Ferrari, but David Frost is presenting the new show.

Sir David Frost is to make a new series for ITV concentrating on politics and current affairs in London.
The new show, Frost Tonight, will air on the capital's ITV feed starting in January in a new midweek political slot. A second run will follow later in the year.

Full story: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1642380,00.html

Just to add - Broadcast reports that the show will come from Millbank.

a rare treat for the guardian to realise and report that carlton regional programmes are in fact exactly that, regional. instead of reporting that <insert any regional london prog here> pulled in <insert sum of all itv network audience for that time slot>

Indeed, although the BBC are just as bad today

"Airing on Thursday nights, the show is part on an ITV move to broadcast political programmes unique to each region"

as if its the first time there's been a regional politics programme!

For some regions that's the case - Central has never used their Sunday slot to run a politics programme - it's always been a roundup of the last 7 days "Newsweek" programme (which has gone downhill again, after an excellent relaunch a few years back now).

I do rather like The Week, I must admit but why oh why is Nick Ferrari there other than "Oh look i'm an LBC presenter with outrageous views!" - I don't mind him on LBC, but he doesn't suit that kind of television. Maybe if he were to go back to Sky News...

Didn't ATV/Central have a regional political show in the past?

'Left Right & Centre' & 'Central Lobby' spring to mind !

So it will be a lot of soft interviews and fawning from Frostie and it will get thrashed in the ratings by Question Time and This Week on the BBC.

Why cant Frost retire away for a peaceful end to his days away from the tv cameras?

Why cant ITV ever do anything right?

yeh and its your shout being the last incarnation. it'll be sad to see sub regional central newsweek replaced by pan regional london inspired politics show type affair. it'd be nice to think that if central do scrap newsweek, they phase in a daily signed update of the headlines for the deaf.

So how long do we give it before Frost is hosting a generic 20 minutes of each region's programme; with a cheap, half-arsed local insert from a local presenter to make it feel regional?????

I'm not sure where you got that idea from!?

No that's the BBC who did that.

Oh Andrew - I expected better of you than that!