ITV

The 30-minute weeknight entertainment show will air at 10pm for five nights of the week, shifting ITV News at Ten to the later slot of 10.30pm in a move to draw a late night audience. 

The Nightly Show will incorporate aspects of the popular American talk show format mixed with British comedy panel shows and include a topical monologue, celebrity guests and studio games.

The show will have a variety of celebrity hosts for each week, with comedian and presenter David Walliams confirmed as the guest host for the first week of the series.

Monday: The Affair, Season 3

Sky Atlantic, 9pm

Tom is the CEO of Virgin Media and a member of the Executive Leadership Team of parent company Liberty Global, the world’s largest international TV and broadband company. Tom joined Liberty Global in June 2013 following the acquisition of Virgin Media. During the previous two decades he worked for News Corporation in a variety of senior roles across the world. He started his career as a newspaper journalist in his native New Zealand, then in Australia, before becoming an adviser and spokesperson for the Federal Treasurer, the Honourable Paul Keating.

Monday: Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match

BBC4​

As election fever reaches its peak in the US, American comedian Rich Hall looks back at the dirty tricks that have been played in presidential races past. The nasty campaigns and unsavory moves covered proves it wasn't just Trump and Clinton who dished out low blows.

Monday

Dark Angel

ITV, 9pm

Comedian Hugh Dennis aired the thoughts of many trying to navigate the new television landscape when he introduced this session. In a video diary shown to conference delegates, he was seen stuck inside a room for a month. His task was to watch all the content available to modern audiences. 

“Watching telly used to be so easy,” he complained. “Four channels, maybe five – everyone watched the same thing in the same place at the same time, unless your family was at the cutting edge of technology and had a VCR.” 

Monday

Be Your Own Doctor

Channel 4, 8.30pm

Be Your Own Doctor is a health programme for modern society, where we turn to Google before GPs when we're ill.

The one-hour extravaganza, titled Diversity Steal The Show, will include celebrity guest appearances, pranks, dance routines, and a competition offering one amateur performer the chance to share the stage with Banjo and co.

Having cut her teeth as a print news journalist, Margaret Emsley has spent the last 18 years at ITV Yorkshire working on the Calendar regional news programme in Leeds. Starting out as a bulletin writer, she worked her way up the ranks and today oversees the entire production of the daily news show.