Jeff Bridges stands tall above his two canine co-stars, Freya and Cain, at the premiere of their new FX on Hulu series, The Old Man, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Wednesday night (June 8) in Los Angeles.
21.05.2022 - 15:17 / msn.com
Why don’t we have a late-night TV culture in the UK? America has it: Seth Meyers, SNL, hundreds of men called Jimmy laughing emptily at the first sentence of an anecdote. And British hosts have conquered it, too: Craig Ferguson, hands in his pockets doing a monologue, or James Corden and five GoPros inside a car.
But why do we not have that here? Why, in the UK, does the clock strike 10pm and TV folds itself up into Newsnight and maybe, on weekends as a treat, Match of the Day? (Imagine watching Ant and Dec host a show that starts at 11. 30pm and ends just before 1am.
I feel sick even writing it down. )Personally, I think the issue is two-fold: we are, as a nation, on a deeply different circadian cycle to Americans; and also, in this country, we want our bombastic, celebrity-led jamborees to be on at a time when we can watch with the kids, safe in the knowledge that nobody is going to say a swearword.
We’re either too sleepy or too conservative for true late-night: the clock edges closer to midnight, and all we crave is a mug of herbal tea and a news presenter quietly telling us the progress of a war. The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan (Friday, 10pm, Channel 4), then, will never actually work in this country, but I am intrigued to see it continue to try, especially as it seems to have learned from decades of late-night TV failure on dozens of other channels.
For a start, it’s on Channel 4, which excels at those multi-celebrity chatshows where you can hear the camera operators laugh at the jokes and they sometimes really need to rush to get to the adverts (see: The Last Leg, at night, and Sunday Brunch, in the morning: spiritually similar but doomed never to meet). Second, it’s not just the
.Jeff Bridges stands tall above his two canine co-stars, Freya and Cain, at the premiere of their new FX on Hulu series, The Old Man, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Wednesday night (June 8) in Los Angeles.
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When Rachel Dratch makes her entrance in the Broadway, all-female ensemble farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, audiences respond with an enthusiasm that feels like the greeting of an old friend. Best known for the 1999 to 2006 stint on NBC’s Saturday Night Live that saw her holding her own among some of the show’s most popular casts – Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers and Darrell Hammond were just a few of the all-stars during those seasons – Dratch created one of SNL’s most enduring characters with in Debbie Downer, a never look on the bright side type who could sink even the happiest occasion with a gloomy observation. “Did you factor in the loss of life at the hands of the African diamond industry?”, Debbie might say to a newly engaged family member, at Thanksgiving no less.
Facebook Watch has given a green light to JoJo Goes, a new original hybrid docuseries starring actress, singer and influencer JoJo Siwa.
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