The Nightly Show

This feels a bit like the 1990s when everyone wanted to emulate David Letterman. I see Jack Docherty has already been invoked on this thread....

Can understand why ITV would want to go with a big bang, five nights a week, if they're treating it as a pilot. But if they're looking at this for the long term, wouldn't they be better off trying for fewer shows (say Sun-Tues), to keep quality up and to prevent it from being shunted for the Champions League highlights?

And correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Corden air around midnight on the US east coast?

There is no absolute denial of any plans to move the news in that article. An ITV spokesperson said: "We have no plans to permanently move the news from the 10pm slot."

No plans to permanently move the news does not mean it won't move at all for the proposed 8 week duration of this show.

as I posted on the post and page before its well after midnight at 12.37

Ah, fair dos, a lot to wade through on the thread. I'm sure I remember watching the start of Craig Ferguson at about 11.40 when I stayed in Philadelphia for a couple of nights - maybe I didn't get back that early after all... but yes, later start meaning a very different kind of show to what would air at 10pm or 10.40pm on ITV.

Late show is 11.37 ET or 10.37 CT and LATE LATE show is 12.37ET or 11.37 CT, WT time is the same as ET.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States#/media/File:US-Timezones.svg

Media Guardian is now covering this in detail - Confirming a temporary move to News at When,


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15-Sep-2016 @ 23:33

Here we go again Just move it to 9.00 and have done with it!

But 9pm would get in the way of the dramas. I seriously do think ITV would rather not have a late night new bulletin if it could help it. 10pm where it is right now is really the ideal time as it is probably the last thing most people will watch before going to bed.

I've never known why they go up against the BBC at 10pm when every other main news bulletin is offset by half an hour to save any competition.

Why not? People seem to forget that the Evening News & News At Ten have only co-existed for a relatively short period of time. Prior to 1999 there was a short bulletin at 5:40/5:45 and the main news at 10pm. The ITV Evening News was basically News at Ten brought forward, and the Early Evening News was shoved to 11pm as the Nightly News. It's only when News at Ten returned that there were two major news programmes on the channel.

I'd say having a main news programme at a peak time which doesn't clash with the other side would be welcomed.

There would still have to be an early evening bulletin on ITV.

ITV isn't going to move The Chase, which occupies the 5 p.m. slot. Furthermore, there would be a further decrease in ratings for national news on ITV if the Evening News was moved.

Besides, having the main ITV national news at 8 would clash with EastEnders.

You do realise that timeslot change only added 10 minutes to the runtime? Having one programme at 8pm would knock off half an hour. 2 and a half hours a week! Like I said, Ofcom wouldn't be happy with that. ITV have PSB commitments. News is part of that.