''The Review Show'' was a

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discussion programme dedicated to the arts which ran, under several titles, from 1994 to 2014. The programme featured a panel of guests who reviewed developments in the world of the arts and culture.

History

''The Review Show'' began as ''Late Review'' in 1994, a strand within '' The Late Show'', an arts magazine which followed the current affairs programme ''

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'', airing on Thursday nights. On 19 March 2000, it moved to a peak time Sunday evening slot within the ''Art Zone'' strand, and the title shortened to ''Review'', before moving to Friday nights from 23 February 2001 where the review show was appended to ''Newsnight'', 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 2001 to December 2005, having previously presented the ''Late Review'' and '' The Late Show'' strands. Other presenters included

Kirsty Wark Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE (born 3 February 1955) is a Scottish television presenter with a long career at the BBC. Starting on Radio Scotland, where she became a producer, Wark switched to television, presenting The Late Show and Newsnig ...

Martha Kearney Martha Catherine Kearney (born 8 October 1957) is a British-Irish journalist and broadcaster. She was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme ''The World at One'' for 11 years, and in April 2018 became a presenter of the ear ...

, Tom Sutcliffe, John Wilson,

Natalie Haynes Natalie Louise Haynes (born 1974) is an English writer, broadcaster, classicist, and comedian. Early life Haynes was born in Birmingham, where she attended King Edward VI High School for Girls. She read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, ...

, Tim Marlow,

Kwame Kwei-Armah Kwame Kwei-Armah (born Ian Roberts; 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London) is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama ''Casualty'' from 1999 unti ...

and

Hardeep Singh Kohli Hardeep Singh Kohli (born 21 January 1969) is a Scottish presenter of Sikh heritage who has appeared on various radio and television programmes. Background Kohli was born in London and moved to Glasgow, Scotland, when he was four. His parents ...

. Regular reviewers included

Allison Pearson Judith Allison Pearson (née Lobbett; born 22 July 1960) is a British columnist and author. Pearson has worked for British newspapers such as the '' Daily Mail'', '' The Independent'', the ''Evening Standard'', '' The Daily Telegraph'', and ...

, Mark Kermode,

Tom Paulin Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949 in Leeds, England) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he was the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford. Earl ...

, Tony Parsons,

Ekow Eshun Ekow Eshun (born 27 May 1968) is a British writer, journalist, broadcaster, and curator. He is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine ''Tank'', a former editor of ''Arena'' magazine, and the former director of the Institute of Contempor ...

and

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literat ...

. 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. ''The Review Show'' was launched on 22 January 2010, with the same producer as ''Newsnight Review'', and following the same format of a chair and a panel of guests (normally three) reviewing the arts, and still presented by Kirsty Wark and Martha Kearney. As of March 2013 ''The Review Show'' was moved to BBC Four and reduced to a monthly, rather than weekly, broadcast. The duration of each episode was increased to an hour. The final episode of the show was aired on 30 March 2014.

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