Yahoo News ITV's Nightly Show won't ever replace News at Ten again
ITV has promised that fledgling late-night comedy series The Nightly Show will never replace the News at Ten again.
Earlier this year, ITV tried out a new format in which presenters from David Walliams to Davina McCall to Dermot O'Leary each hosted a week in the 10pm slot traditionally reserved for the news.
The Nightly Show battled rollercoaster ratings and harsh reviews for most of its eight weeks on the air, yet there was talk all throughout its run that a second series was still possible.
At the Edinburgh Television Festival on Wednesday (August 23), ITV's programming director Kevin Lygo bristled when asked if there were plans to bring The Nightly Show back at 10pm in the future (via The Radio Times).
"Certainly not at 10 o'clock," he said. "The challenge is can it work for us later, that sort of thing. I don't know."
Lygo also acknowledged that ITV's attempt at a US-style late-night comedy show didn't "really" work, and would need a significant retooling in order for it to return.
"The theory was that if you build the show there would be these fun people you would slot in each week," he explained. "What happened of course, on week four you'd have a new host who would come on and say 'I'm not doing that' and you'd have to reinvent the show.
"Ten o'clock maybe was too early, particularly for ITV. Maybe it was a bit of a shock."
Luckily for Kev, we at Digital Spy came up with some surefire ways to reinvent The Nightly Show for a potential second series. Perhaps now is a good time for a read, ITV?
Once you're done with that, take a nostalgic look back at a magical Nightly Show moment below:
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