It happens every Tuesday at a certain time of year, between ten at night and half past; for thirty minutes my Twitter feed is alive with scorn and cynicism, a nation of detractors railing against just one thing: the abbreviated first weekly edition of Jools Holland‘s Later.

A staple of the BBC’s programming schedule for more than two decades, a move before this year to the Maidstone studios (which gave birth to the likes of Catchphrase) has done little to address the criticisms which the show has faced almost constantly during that time. Far from heralding a break from its highly formulaic script, relocation has instead been a missed opportunity to change the stale, carousel-like procession of the players, to kill off the presenter’s yawn-inducing sidebars with has-beens, to broaden the creative palette, or to alleviate Holland’s lugubrious air of almost complete indifference.


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