The Review Show

The Review Show
Format	Talk show
Starring	Mark Lawson (1994-2005) Kirsty Wark (2002-present) Martha Kearney (2006-present)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two
Picture format	4:3 (1994-2000) 16:9 (2001-present)
Original run	1994 (1994) – present

The Review Show is a British discussion programme dedicated to the arts which airs on Friday evenings at 11:00pm on BBC Two. The programme features a panel of guests who review the week's developments in the world of the arts and culture.

Background

The Review Show began life as Late Review in 1994, a strand within The Late Show, an arts magazine which followed the current affairs programme Newsnight. From 19 March 2000 to 18 December 2009 the review show was appended to Newsnight on Friday night as part of one programme, and renamed Newsnight Review. Newsnight Review was a consumer survey of the week's artistic and cultural highlights which appeared on Friday evening's edition of Newsnight. The programme featured a chair and a panel of three invited guests who would review a selection of books, plays, films and exhibitions. Mark Lawson was the programme's original main presenter from 2000 to December 2005, having previously presented the Late Review and The Late Show strands. Other presenters included Kirsty Wark, Martha Kearney, John Wilson, Natalie Haynes, Tim Marlow, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Hardeep Singh Kohli. Regular reviewers included Mark Kermode, Tom Paulin, Ekow Eshun and Germaine Greer.

As part of the BBC's commitment to moving programmes out of London, it was announced in 2009 that Newsnight Review would end and be replaced by The Review Show, produced from Glasgow. The final edition of Newsnight Review was aired with an hour-long special with a review of the year on 18 December 2009.^[1][2] The Review Show was launched on 22 January 2010. It has the same producer as Newsnight Review, follows the same format of a chair and a panel of guests reviewing the arts, and is still presented by Kirsty Wark and Martha Kearney. The programme is normally broadcast on a Friday after Newsnight, but on 19 May 2011, it was broadcast on a Thursday, with Kirsty Wark and guests discussing the future of television.

References

1. ^ "A decade of Newsnight Review". Newsnight Review. BBC. 18 January 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/default.stm. Retrieved 5 February 2010. 
2. ^ "Friday 18 December: The year in Review". Newsnight Review. BBC. 17 December 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/8413820.stm. Retrieved 5 February 2010.