The Late Late Show coming to London

There were some rumours recently but it's now been confirmed that the show is coming from London for a week in June.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/videos/13351/james_corden_is_coming_back_to_the_uk/

Unsurprisingly, it's going to be shown in primetime on Sky 1 and I guess it will air before the US showing.

There have been examples of this before, of course. Letterman did a week in London in 1995, and the programmes were shown on Sky 1, who were showing the series at the time anyway, and then BBC2 showed them the following week. I remember Private Eye saying that Michael Jackson wanted to run Letterman every night anyway, so this was the perfect excuse. Wasn't that good, to be honest, and I remember Letterman fans saying afterwards that he was never as good away from his usual studio.

And then in 1999, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher did a week in London and they were all shown on Channel 4, even though they never showed the series before or since. The only thing I remember about that is that one night Michael Moore and Edwina Currie were among the guests and Moore just kept on interrupting Currie, not in a funny way or anything, just straight up talking over all the time. I don't especially like Currie but she wasn't saying anything mad and Moore was an unpleasant bully throughout. I've not liked him since.

I'll probably watch this, though, because I love watching American media talking about Britain, I even used to watch the ESPN highlights of the Open because they were the American coverage with all the references to Bonnie Scotchland intact. That's why I love this feature about Countryfile in the New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/europe/british-pastoral-a-bbc-show-on-rural-life-draws-millions.html?_r=1

This isnt the first time the Late late show has come to UK, Craig brought it to Scotland in 2012.