The Nightly Show
The Nightly Show

The Nightly Show

  • TV comedy
  • ITV1
  • 2017
  • 39 episodes (1 series)

A nightly comedy and entertainment series broadcast on ITV. A different guest host each week. Stars David Walliams, John Bishop, Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary, Gordon Ramsay and more.

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Series 1, Episode 1

The Nightly Show. David Walliams
David Williams kicks off The Nightly Show, with news including the mix up at the Oscars. His first guest is Martin Clunes, and Nina Conti performs.

Preview clips

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 27th February 2017
Time
10pm
Channel
ITV1
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Tuesday 28th February 2017 12:15am ITV1

Cast & crew

Cast
David Walliams Host / Presenter
Guest cast
Martin Clunes Guest
Nina Conti Guest
Writing team
Kevin Cecil Writer (Additional Material)
Aiden Spackman Writer (Additional Material)
Ged Parsons Writer (Additional Material)
Andrew Dawson (as Dawson Bros.) Writer (Additional Material)
Steve Dawson (as Dawson Bros.) Writer (Additional Material)
Tim Inman (as Dawson Bros.) Writer (Additional Material)
Geoff Norcott (as Geoffrey Norcott) Writer (Additional Material)
Production team
Richard Van't Riet Director
Susannah Haley Series Editor
John Adams Series Producer
Adeel Amini Producer
Shereen Docherty Producer
Alice Harper Producer
Stevie Miller Producer
Katie Taylor Executive Producer
Lee Hupfield Executive Producer
Paul Sandler Executive Producer
Andrew O'Connor Executive Producer
Tommy Forbes Producer/Director
Paul Routledge Producer/Director
Alex Harknett Archive Producer
Chris Moore Editor
Patrick Owen Editor
Dominic Tolfts Production Designer
Chris Rigby Lighting Designer

Videos

David Walliams interviews Donald Trump

Donald Trump's press conference is gatecrashed by David Walliams.

Featuring: David Walliams.

David Walliams at the Oscars

The Nightly Show reveals what went on at the Oscars last night, as La La Land was incorrectly named Best Picture instead of Moonlight.

Featuring: David Walliams.

Erotic Fan Fiction

Men Behaving Badly star Martin Clunes is the first ever guest on The Nightly Show, so David treats him to some interesting and erotic fan fiction.

Featuring: David Walliams & Martin Clunes.

Nina Conti turns Martin Clunes into a ventriloquist dummy

We wonder if Martin imagined this is how his night would go...

Featuring: David Walliams, Martin Clunes & Nina Conti.

Nina Conti performance

Nina Conti introduces her monkey to The Nightly Show audience.

Featuring: Nina Conti.

Press

The Nightly Show: Britain's latest crack at US-style TV

It's clearly too soon to judge the chances of The Nightly Show after only one of its declared 40 editions. But, if the first night proves representative, the show may struggle to equal, on any of its five nights, the level of star power that Graham Norton manages on his one.

Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 28th February 2017

The Nightly Show: 'Truly awful, gut wrenching rubbish!'

It had riled people up the wrong way before it had even started. And sadly for ITV, the network's newest chat show - The Nightly Show - has left an even bitterer taste in viewers' mouths following it's debut transmission on Monday night.

Daily Mail, 28th February 2017

The Nightly Show did NOT go down well last night

Viewers said they'd really prefer ITV News at Ten to "car crash", "copycat" television.

Ellie Harrison, Radio Times, 28th February 2017

The Nightly Show pulls almost 3m viewers

The launch of The Nightly Show on ITV attracted almost 3 million viewers on Monday night, but the News at Ten recorded its lowest Monday audience of the year so far in its new temporary 10.30pm slot.

Jasper Jackson, The Guardian, 28th February 2017

This new daily entertainment show, which features comedy, video clips and studio guests, has been preceded by a trailer of absurdly exaggerated camp starring opening host David Walliams. This snippet - which climaxes in Walliams being served champagne by a buff, half-naked waiter on rollerblades - probably sets the tone for a show that's unlikely to be understated. Future hosts include John Bishop and Gordon Ramsay.

Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 27th February 2017

Preview - The Nightly Show

This week ITV is bringing back some hit shows and starting some new ones. One of these new editions is quite a big one, seeing as how it has taken over the place previously held by News at Ten.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 27th February 2017

The Nightly Show review

James Corden and his fellow US talkshow hosts can sleep easy in their squishy Hollywood beds tonight because The Nightly Show (ITV), a British attempt to emulate what they do, fell as flat as a Shrove Tuesday pancake. In the process, it made such slick American TV productions look even better.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 27th February 2017

TV Review: The Nightly Show

ITV1's much-trailed attempt at a topical comedy and chat show five nights a week started with a plodding episode that was equal parts unoriginal and uninspiring.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th February 2017

The Nightly Show review

In the intro, Walliams joked that confused viewers might think 'the News At Ten's gone a bit down-market'. Downmarket's not the issue, bland is. The Nightly Show does not feel like the mustn't-miss proposal that ITV need it to be. The gamble hasn't paid off.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th February 2017

Robert Peston: News at Ten's time shift may be reversed

ITV political editor says channel's new topical entertainment show will have to win audience quickly to keep 10pm slot.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, 26th February 2017

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