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(August 2008)

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JR
jrothwell97
Tonightly , a sort-of hybrid between The Eleven O'Clock Show and News Knight with Trevor McDonald , started on Friday night, hosted by Jason Manford. As a programme, it wasn't bad at all: Jason Manford was good in the chair, and the 'guests' (Steve Lipsh!tz, Andi Osho, etc) were excellent (apart from "Ollie Robertson" - quite unfunny IMO).

What's interesting is that it started on Friday night, but is stripped weeknightly in the ~11pm slot from Monday onwards. From Monday to Wednesday, it's on at 11:05. On Thursday it jumps to 11:15, and mysteriously reverts to 11:10 by Friday. However, last Friday it was on at 11:10.

Quite apart from the fact that there's quite a lot of inconsistency there for such a short programme, why not just fix it at a nice, round time like 11, 11:15, 11:30 etc. I suspect Big B*ll*cks is responsible.
:-(
A former member
Rolling Eyes I'm sure they would if they could.

Not a bad show from what I saw, I quite like Jason Manford and it was very up-to-date (is it live?).
JC
JCB
Seeing as it was only the first show I'll stick with it for a while but it wasn't very promising. It was terrible infact. The Peter Kay rip-off is wrong for this kind of show - he's only funny in small (very small) doses. The woman was pointless, and the fake politician and TV reviewer just made me cringe. It didn't help that at exactly the same the far superior Colbert Report was on FX and Ch4 of course have The Daily Show on more4.
DV
dvboy
jrothwell97 posted:
I suspect Big B*ll*cks is responsible.


Charlotte Church really, for moving it all of 10 minutes later on Thursday. Evey other day it's 11:05.

Big Brother actually makes for easy scheduling being an hour each day.
MA
Manxy
I recorded it and watched it back. I feel it was alright but doesn't come anywhere close to the Late Edition on BBC Four, which is by far funnier and does roughly the same stuff.
BU
buster
jrothwell97 posted:
Tonightly , a sort-of hybrid between The Eleven O'Clock Show and News Knight with Trevor McDonald , started on Friday night, hosted by Jason Manford. As a programme, it wasn't bad at all: Jason Manford was good in the chair, and the 'guests' (Steve Lipsh!tz, Andi Osho, etc) were excellent (apart from "Ollie Robertson" - quite unfunny IMO).

What's interesting is that it started on Friday night, but is stripped weeknightly in the ~11pm slot from Monday onwards. From Monday to Wednesday, it's on at 11:05. On Thursday it jumps to 11:15, and mysteriously reverts to 11:10 by Friday. However, last Friday it was on at 11:10.

Quite apart from the fact that there's quite a lot of inconsistency there for such a short programme, why not just fix it at a nice, round time like 11, 11:15, 11:30 etc. I suspect Big B*ll*cks is responsible.


Jason Manford's bits were not bad, he's quite a funny guy - a few years back we had him as the warm-up act when we went to see BBC3's Grownups, and he was ten times as funny as anything in the actual show. Pretty much everything else on the new show fell flat, especially that woman who sat at the side and barely said anything that was actually a joke, yet was still applauded as if she was hilarious!
JR
jrothwell97
buster posted:
jrothwell97 posted:
Tonightly , a sort-of hybrid between The Eleven O'Clock Show and News Knight with Trevor McDonald , started on Friday night, hosted by Jason Manford. As a programme, it wasn't bad at all: Jason Manford was good in the chair, and the 'guests' (Steve Lipsh!tz, Andi Osho, etc) were excellent (apart from "Ollie Robertson" - quite unfunny IMO).

What's interesting is that it started on Friday night, but is stripped weeknightly in the ~11pm slot from Monday onwards. From Monday to Wednesday, it's on at 11:05. On Thursday it jumps to 11:15, and mysteriously reverts to 11:10 by Friday. However, last Friday it was on at 11:10.

Quite apart from the fact that there's quite a lot of inconsistency there for such a short programme, why not just fix it at a nice, round time like 11, 11:15, 11:30 etc. I suspect Big B*ll*cks is responsible.


Jason Manford's bits were not bad, he's quite a funny guy - a few years back we had him as the warm-up act when we went to see BBC3's Grownups, and he was ten times as funny as anything in the actual show. Pretty much everything else on the new show fell flat, especially that woman who sat at the side and barely said anything that was actually a joke, yet was still applauded as if she was hilarious!


I think if there were more 'analysts' ( News Knight -stylee) Andi Osho would do better, as she seems not to have much to say at the moment. Perhaps if she was paired with someone like Paul Merton, who's very quick making jokes, it would fill out a bit better.

Steve Lipshchzitz (or whatever his name is) was the best sketch in the show - the Panorama parody was good fun. "ARE YOU AWARE THAT PEANUTS ARE SOAKED IN U-RHINE!?" was wonderfully typical of what appears every day on that great parody news service, Sky News.
PT
Put The Telly On
The "reporters" were the worst part of the show in my opinion. I think it's got potential but obviously Manford needs to settle in and flow a bit more which I think he will.
BR
Brekkie
I still haven't forgiven the Eleven o'clock Show for giving Ricky Gervais a career.
AS
Aston
Hmmm, thought I'd give this show a chance tonight.

It actually seems to use canned laughter - no shots of studio audience and the laughing sounds odd. To me, that actually makes it less funny...
JR
jrothwell97
Aston posted:
Hmmm, thought I'd give this show a chance tonight.

It actually seems to use canned laughter - no shots of studio audience and the laughing sounds odd. To me, that actually makes it less funny...


Hmm, interesting. I'll keep an ear out for that...

edit : no, it's a real audience. The laughter patterns are too heavily tied to the jokes, and there was some audience interaction between Jason and a member of the audience trying to quantify 1kg of lard as four cubes of butter.
PT
Put The Telly On
Arrgh I hate the spoof reporters.

I think in the long term it seems nowadays we can only do topical news shows if it involves some kind of quiz element but I'll give it until it finishes.

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