Is anyone else watching The Late Review?

I don't remember this edition at all. How odd.

Mark Lawson announced at the end of this evening's that it was his last Late Review/Newsnight Review. Despite everything, I felt a bit sad at that. I'd like him and the original three to do one more for old time's sake. Yeah.

I don't think I'll miss Lawson too much.

Who are 'the original 3'?

I'll miss Mark Lawson.

He's still a blithering idjiit.

-- JimD (ji...), December 18th, 2005.

germaine greer replaced the dreadful pearson after not long. parsons is a cunt, greer is nuts, and paulin is... sometimes quite funny.

but i don't miss missing this programme.

Last night: review of the year

appalling Wark
overbearing Churchwell
dopey Manzoor
diabolical Haynes

Morley vs 'pleasure', 'habit', 'money'

B&S

I worked out that the worst panel would be:
Wark -- Eshun, B Greer, Haynes, Gove

you cannot go lower than that.

stopped watching it when they sacked Tom Paulin for calling Wes Anderson a cunt

I did have to stop watching it fairly early on last night, which is a shame.

I've been watching it since the 90s: they heyday of Germaine Greer, Alison Pearson, Tom Paulin etc...But I'm confused by the BBC site which seems to date the show back to 2000. I remember the show taking the cast to France to see Cronenberg's Crash in 1996 because they couldn't preview it in the UK.

TS: Kirsty Wark vs Martha Kearney

it was called something different in the 90s tho, Pompous Dobbers Don't Get Culture or something like that

Kearney.

The programme has been through various incarnations. Wikipedia might explain. It is really, I think, ultimately a descendant of The Late Show which must have started c.1988. In fact, oddly, the same is true of Later with Jools Holland.

I don't get the idea of a heyday. Maybe that day was better than this but it was still not very good.

TS: Kirsty Wark vs Martha Kearney

It's not possible to be a worse presenter of the Late Review than Kirsty Wark

her and her nuvvels.

never seen them. are there pics?

This is where I learned that Captain Beefheart died, from Kirsty Wark's lips...

Just fucking hated how his death was used to diagnose the state of music from people who know nothing about it to people who have forgotten what they know (Morley).

I used to watch it in the '90's, Tom Paulin used to get on my wick something rotten with his worldweary/cynical act. Bad memory is Tony Parsons supposedly reviewing some film - Krzysztof Kieslowski iirc, and being all "I couldn't be bothered" about it, thinking fuck you,man, you're getting paid for this you lazy tosser!? I'd have thrown him out of the studio. Germaine Greer was funny when she reviewed "Mars Attacks". I'm surprised it's still on.

I do wonder how awkward it actually is when the show plays out with some intense solo music artist and the panel know their expressions/reactions will be captured by the camera, albeit briefly.