James Corden dressed as a dancing cat, while Andrew Lloyd Webber sat on high in a cherry-picker, pulling faces and throwing red roses. Not a jet-lagged London tourist’s fever dream but tonight’s special UK leg of The Late Late Show with James Corden (Sky1). Corden was lucky he didn't get impounded and bussed down to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
This was the first of four special editions of CBS’ hit talkshow, swapping its usual Los Angeles location for Westminster Central Hall - the same venue where Corden helmed three homecoming episodes last year. The previous production niggles had been ironed out: sound was less echoey, the set slicker. Transporting a production of this size into a 1,000-seat...