Really looking forward to The Nightly Show. I'm hoping it doesn't bomb in the ratings, but there is a chance it could happen.
The first episode has Broadchurch before hand, which will probably be around 7m. This should put TNS on 3m if ITV give it enough promotion. However, the second episode has 'Play To The Whistle' before it, which could be less than 2m. That will really show whether people liked the first episode and actually want to see more of it.
So perhaps The Nightly Show isn't the most stupid scheduling of the week. Worth noting it also gets a narrative repeat just after midnight.
I suspect The Nightly Show with David Walliams will as you say do well off the back of Broadchurch, but then never rate better. The press will be out for it with the inevitable drop from Monday to Tuesday.
I wish it luck, and it'd be great to see something like this work out (isn't V Graham Norton the last nightly chat show we had?) but I have a horrible feeling they'll screw it up in the same way they screwed Sunday Side Up. They wanted to emulate the frolics Stephen Mulhern generated on the live BGMT shows, while at the same time saying "look at how much fun we can have on a Sunday morning". It was a great idea, but the execution fell flat on its face. I remember getting the hint that they were concentrating too much on saying "look what we're doing" without actually doing anything worthwhile, and I have a horrible feeling this new show will spend too much time saying "look, we've got a late night show like James Corden does".
I know it's still listed as "ITV News at Ten" in the schedules, but will the programme be branded simply "ITV News" or will it keep its name? I hope it's the former.
Haven't ITV News moved back to announcing their other bulletins as "Lunchtime" or "Evening" news, so it would make more sense if during this 8 week period they called it the "Late Evening News"?
