Clive Anderson Now

Clive Anderson Now lasted for just one series. Clive expressed misgivings about the programme in an interview for The Observer's Harriet Lane (12th August 2001):

"'I'm not sure why Peter Salmon thought I should do a different sort of show. I certainly asked him, but I'm still not sure. I got a BBC answer. The expression he used was 'keep ahead of the audience', which I took to mean that the audience was happy with All Talk as it was, but it wouldn't be at some future date.

'The bad luck for me was that by the time we got on air, HIGNFY was on BBC1, so that didn't help with Now's long-term future. And, by then, Peter Salmon was no longer controller of BBC1. There wasn't anyone feeling responsible for the new programme. So, Now is then.

'It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.'"