Not Tonight with John Sergeant

There is no flow to this at all. Not only does it sound scripted, but it sounds unrehearsed and poorly scripted.

I can see what they're trying to do; but the writing's not quite tight enough for them to pull it off. Any idea who's behind the script?
The theatre of news is verging on vomit-inducing; maybe that's the point, but I'd have preferred something that was entirely over the top that was easy to look at...

It's excruciating to watch.

Well it's a pilot isn't it. So we don't think there will be a series then?

I thought the Blair's birthday party bit was ok, the rest is a bit poor, not quite sure what they are going for, that business with the Breaking News was odd

I like the concept a lot, and it'd be good on a Sunday night. Like I said, shame it isn't funny.

I like the way that the set is very much like the ITV News set, very cheeky! I think it is supposed to be a slapstick news bulletin.....

Well, the pilot for The Day Today (which is on the DVD) was pretty slow in places, and was developed into a fantastic series; that said it wasn't subjected to an unwitting public, whereas they've decided that this should be.

Well at least people can't launch into another ITV rant blaming Charles Allen for making such a poor show or someother similar nonsense, it was made by an indie.

The commissioners decided to give it a chance, but at the same time buried it in a graveyard slot, so late it actually was on after Celebrity Love Island, so it it was poor, hardly anybody will have seen it!

Yes some pilots are in-house and never make it to air, and this should have been one of them.

Awful.

I thought that Paddington Bear the asylum seeking hoodie was quite funny

That's what confused me. I thought it was the real ITV News.

Awful? Well I wouldn't go that far.

The people on the show have potential and with some decent scripts, cut it down to 30 minutes and they might have something half decent on their hands.

I feel there should have been a greater look at the current days/weeks newspapers and more jokes made about them! There is an obvious one about finding out where Saddam has hidden his weapons of mass destruction after all this time etc....

Personally, I liked the combination of Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald and ITV News studios and theme music. I also liked the breaking news spoof but felt it was dragged out just a little bit too long.
The Look Welsh segment with Barry Welsh was poor. Having seen Barry Welsh on HTV, and after John Sparkes winning numerous Bafta awards for his shows, I feel his segment could(and shouldve) been better. Even one of his joke about the catalogue of errors was lifted from an old Barry Welsh episode!

Obviously this programme was trying to fill some gap between Have I Got News For You and The Day Today and people will obviously compare it with those two programmes.

If this is just a pilot then a lot of work will be needed to produce a programme that will work in a primetime slot.

I think it's rescueable!