[JMT1985]

Channel 4 certainly should try more with Friday nights, it seems they have lost all interest in trying anything new on the night aside and is now just a constant loop of Gogglebox, The Last Leg and anything involving Jimmy Carr, a far cry from the late-90s when it was anchored by the likes of Friends, Frasier, South Park, TFI Friday, Father Ted and eventually by the 00s the Big Brother eviction show, and that's just scratching the surface. As has been proven over the last few weeks, if a programme is good enough, given a decent level of promotion and scheduled correctly, it will pay off.

Shows like Big Boys would certainly freshen up Friday nights either at 9 or 10pm, and maybe they could try out more new British comedy there. I've always thought Taskmaster might be worth a try to add into the Friday 9pm rotation with Gogglebox and Catsdown (ideally some other shows added in too.) Just relatively small steps like that would stop it from feeling endlessly stale and repetitive, and give it an actual buzz.

Altogether I cannot see any of this innovation coming under the current leadership of C4 who only seem to value Bake Off, Gogglebox and to a lesser extent MAFS and Naked Attraction. I think Katz's departure is long overdue now.

I agree, Friday nights used to be the most strongest night for Channel 4, just as you said the classic shows such as Father Ted, also we had during the 90s Whose Line Is It Anyway on a Friday night

That is a show I would like to see back on Channel 4, a proper British version. Considering the current American version seems to be nearing it's end as the CW channel want to axe it, and CW has been accused of never promoting it, Channel 4 rebooting it with a British version, with new British comedians, and maybe occasional appearance from Whose Line grandees such as Greg Proops would be great for Friday night at 10pm instead of regular Last Leg series.

Remember too Fridays was home to Graham Norton's talk show, and it seems Joe Lycett could easily be used a lot more, instead of The Last Leg at 10pm, which seems very tired now.