This edition of Wogan was moved to 12:15am the following day in Scottish regions to make way for regional sports programming. It marked the beginning of sporadic occurrences, with the Scottish regions often seeing Wogan much later than the rest of the UK.
As noted under other episodes, some of Terry Wogan's harshest criticism came from newspapers published in his home country.
Columnist Jenny Gleeson wrote in County Wicklow newspaper "Bray People" (31st August 1990) that: "Back in the more mundane television arena life goes on as usual. Wogan is under pressure, though, what with his tam ratings being down instead of up since he returned from his holidays and let Jonathan Ross go home. Its (sic) not surprising. Three helpings of Terry Wogan in any one week is too much. The tiresome grin, the jokes that fall flat but still get laughed at, and all the cue-card glancing that stems from lack of preparation time. He needs a new programme - a once a week job - where he can still make with the repartee but which won't be only a port tor passing celebrities. If the downward trend of Wogan does lead to the its (sic) going down the tube he needn't cry into his hankie for too long. After all, he's been on more often, and lasted longer than most."
Columnist Jenny Gleeson wrote in County Wicklow newspaper "Bray People" (31st August 1990) that: "Back in the more mundane television arena life goes on as usual. Wogan is under pressure, though, what with his tam ratings being down instead of up since he returned from his holidays and let Jonathan Ross go home. Its (sic) not surprising. Three helpings of Terry Wogan in any one week is too much. The tiresome grin, the jokes that fall flat but still get laughed at, and all the cue-card glancing that stems from lack of preparation time. He needs a new programme - a once a week job - where he can still make with the repartee but which won't be only a port tor passing celebrities. If the downward trend of Wogan does lead to the its (sic) going down the tube he needn't cry into his hankie for too long. After all, he's been on more often, and lasted longer than most."
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