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A Night with...

UK television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3602636 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Night with is a British entertainment show on ITV featuring well-known musicians. The first episode starred Will Young and was presented by Kate Thornton, airing on 27 August at 9pm. The second episode starred Beyoncé and was presented by Steve Jones, airing on 4 December at 9pm.

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Reception

The Daily Record's David Mark said the show provided Will Young with a "unique and intimate platform" that was "hosted, rather bizarrely by Kate Thornton". David Smyth of the London Evening Standard praised Young's musical performance in the show as "live, loud and tightly drilled". He called "Your Game" "stirring" and thought "Who Am I" was "cleverly staged".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A Night with...” is uK television program. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Night, television and program, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 108-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Night, television and program is the immediate research focus.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3602636. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Night with...” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.