Growing Pangs

Press release time!

What’s That? A Tonight Show!

Sam Pang Tonight. Premieres Monday, 17 March At 8:40pm On 10 And 10 Play.

Sam Pang Tonight is a brand-new show defying convention by bringing viewers something refreshingly familiar: a tonight show. Hosted by, you guessed it, Sam Pang.

Sam’s no stranger to Aussie audiences, he’s buzzed in from the front-right position for more than a decade on the fast and funny Have You Been Paying Attention?, he’s hosted the 2023 and 2024 Logie Awards and he’s a co-host on Seven’s The Front Bar. And now he’s got his very own tonight show, filmed in front of a live studio audience.

Expect a monologue that both celebrates and roasts the week’s news, a mix of local and international guests, along with plenty of Sam’s friends from the comedy world joining in the fun across the eight-episode season.

Sam Pang said: “I’m thrilled to bring a tonight show to Australian screens in 2025. Especially since Channel 10 passed on my pitch to reboot The Golden Girls.”

That’s not giving us much to go on, but as it sounds very much like a traditional tonight show it shouldn’t be hard to fill in the gaps. Pretty brave move to let us know it’s an eight episode season too. Rove’s last attempt at a tonight show on Ten didn’t make it to week three, Micallef Tonight didn’t do a whole lot better, and while Mick Molloy’s The Nation managed eight weeks it was basically forgotten after week two.

Still, at a time when comedy on the commercial networks is once again in decline – RIP that segment Mark Humphries briefly did on Seven news, though possibly once the election’s called he’ll turn up somewhere doing the usual – having a network gamble on an old-fashioned tonight show is a big swing.

And if it does tank, Pang’s got so many other gigs on the go we’ll never hear the end of it.