Late Night Lycett

Almost identical to earlier shows. Don't forget your toothbrush etc. C4 was groundbreaking in the day, but now, recycling shock tv.

It has amazing stars, surprised by lycett, much like Ross did in the day, but less focused on chat, and more on product placement in the days you could watch a 60 minute show without interruption with adverts.

Lycertt will be sued, as will c4. Held to account for manipulation of the public opinion. It's going to happen- do enjoy it while you can, as soon you will be in prison, dropping the soap in the shower.

C4 makes fancy baking shows, house selling, and then they throw curve balls of dangerous reality tv, giving false hopes to wannabes, false commentary by pseudoscience.

Do they practice what they preach? Do they feel the emotion- it should be gonzo. Getting involved with the story, raw and unedited rather than stylised and scripted carefully in a Masterchef style calm voice.

They document, but do not listen to the problem. Do no help, it's one thing to listen, another to walk away once the budget expires, leaving the victims to their fate.

History, written by the winners will tell.

RogerRoger77 below seems to have seen a different Late Night Lycett than we did. We loved it.

"...but the nadir came with the attempt to parody GB News, an excruciatingly ill-rehearsed and poorly written effort in which Lycett simply couldn't land a successful joke... His cohost in this segment, Alan Carr, at least had the decency to look bewildered and embarrassed by the whole thing."

Um, noooo. Whey then did every punchline have the audience screaming with laughter? The entire segment was brilliant, a perfect parody of GB News' fake white male outrage. And Carr was streets from bewildered. Apparently you didn't get the joke that his character was reading from the prompter? Yeah, you needed to figure that out.

I'm going to guess that you are NOT a "Guardian reader", as you pointedly put it. Not to worry, there are plenty of chat shows for you out there. In fact quite a few on GB News.

Late Night Lycett is not like anything we've seen before, and we look forward to every Friday night now.

I think the show was trying to recreate TFI Friday with Chris Evans. Well, it hasn't. They threw the whole LGBTQ++ celebrities at it. That just made it seem even more desperate. Joe Lycett is capable of better, which is why the whole sorry mess should be pulled, before his reputaion is indelibly tarnished. Even rent-a-posh tottie Joanna Lumley couldn't rescue this rubbish. Alan Carr being a screaming queen yet again just made it worse.

The fact that the programme comes live from Birmingham is an insult to the basically decent folk of that city. They gave us Crossroads, live from Pebble Mill etc. Come to think of it, the city doesn't exactly have a good track record of quality TV, does it?

Lycett's foray into the realm of the Friday night live show has been a running experiment since its inception. Series 1 got caught up in the same little formula that got tired fast but the second series had tons of progression and promise, a kind of whirligig meta-narrative about Lycett's aunties that is really wild but is perhaps too welded to the celeb interviews to go where it needs to go. That being said - the specific local vibe is unmatched on UK telly, it is funny, the guests were well chosen and the occasional patches of chaos (some planned, some not) can be quite refreshing. I still think we need even more localism, Joe's world could be interesting enough without crowbarring random celebrities into it. Perhaps just a single guest co-host?

Joe Lycett is always hilarious and the "Richard Yewtree" sections are the funniest. A proper scream. Suspect it's a little too close to the media diet of those who gave 1 star.

Really nice that it's highlighting talent in Birmingham too. Don One is a great drag king and I wasn't familiar with the fabulous Yshee Black. Great celebration of the rainbow of Britishness too - unapologetically camp and wonderful. Just as Friday nights should be. Hope Channel 4 keep making it as it's a great reason to stay in on a Friday and snuggle with my cat and dog. Not sure what else to say here other than yay!