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.
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