The One Show is the most unapologetically weird programme on the BBC - IN FOCUS: On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light ...

And that cultural force is The One Show. Since 2006, the 7pm weeknight slot on BBC One has belonged to the broadcaster’s premier something-for-everyone-and-no-one grab bag of a magazine show.

The cumulative effect is simultaneously banal and bizarre. None of it makes any sense at all – if historians look back at any random One Show episode in a few centuries, they’ll be deeply ...