I have to admit I didn't enjoy the first two episodes, however last nights show was much better and I actually enjoyed it. I felt that David had altered his style slightly and there was more interaction with the guest, also, it didn't feel as crammed.
I also heard, correct me if I'm wrong, that the viewing figures went up on Wednesday night to 1.83 million which shows that it's not failing as drastically as people thought.
Come next week it's back to square one. I agree we don't give itv enough chance. I like Harry hills stars in your eyes. But it's the fact itv made all this fuss moved the news, and then are not doing proper test run of content.
I'm still none the wiser why moving News at Ten was so detrimental.
Well first and foremost, 10pm is not late night, and therefore they're on to a losing battle launching a late night show in what is still a prime slot.
I don't understand that at all. Just because they're producing a show inspired by late night chat shows in America, it has to go out in the dead of night? How would that be remotely helpful unless they were trying to kickstart a Night Network revival?
It will never exist to go out at 10:45pm. Whatever it gets now would be more than halved. It would lose any post 9pm show inheritance (which is some factor as evidenced by the figures). And they don't commission for such a commercially dead timeslot.
As a slight positive, if it stabilises at 2m it will be an improvement on the slot average at 10pm. Anything above 1m at 10:30pm is also an improvement on the slot average where the audience usually dips below 1m.
The aim though was to improve the audience for the show at 10pm & the News. Whether the modest increase on the slot average is worth the investment .... I don't know.
Hit the nail on the head. The Nightly Show is expensive so it's got to do well to justify its cost.
What I found quite ironic is that David says in his introduction that he will be taking a satirical look at todays news.
So this seriously means that we're expected to get our news first from The Nightly Show and laugh about it.... before we even find out what the news is actually all about at 10.30.
I finish work and get home at 7pm, therefore the News at Ten is my main source for news. Well it was....
What I found quite ironic is that David says in his introduction that he will be taking a satirical look at todays news.
So this seriously means that we're expected to get our news first from The Nightly Show and laugh about it.... before we even find out what the news is actually all about at 10.30.
I finish work and get home at 7pm, therefore the News at Ten is my main source for news. Well it was....
This is only a problem if we lived in a world where ITV is the only source of news available. You mean to say that from 7pm you can't look at the news on a smartphone, check the internet or watch a news channel ?
I don't understand that at all. Just because they're producing a show inspired by late night chat shows in America, it has to go out in the dead of night? How would that be remotely helpful unless they were trying to kickstart a Night Network revival?
So you don't think that a late night format is influenced by its time slot?
Just as Good Morning Britain wouldn't work in place of This Morning, late night shows are intended to be consumed at a particular time.
The reason they work in America is that they are the last thing people watch before they go to sleep. They're easy watching, and Leno proved in the states that people look for something different in prime time.
What I found quite ironic is that David says in his introduction that he will be taking a satirical look at todays news.
So this seriously means that we're expected to get our news first from The Nightly Show and laugh about it.... before we even find out what the news is actually all about at 10.30.
I finish work and get home at 7pm, therefore the News at Ten is my main source for news. Well it was....
You're telling me you don't know the news before 10pm? particularly the sound bite/jokey headline news that will be talked about in the monologue?
What I found quite ironic is that David says in his introduction that he will be taking a satirical look at todays news.
So this seriously means that we're expected to get our news first from The Nightly Show and laugh about it.... before we even find out what the news is actually all about at 10.30.
I finish work and get home at 7pm, therefore the News at Ten is my main source for news. Well it was....
This is only a problem if we lived in a world where ITV is the only source of news available. You mean to say that from 7pm you can't look at the news on a smartphone, check the internet or watch a news channel ?