“In London Town Tonight” broadcasts live from 22 Frith Street in Soho — the historic home of television — with Soho legends, global conversations, music and entertainment
One hundred years after television stepped out of the laboratory and began its journey toward changing the world, The Andrew Eborn Show – In London Town Tonight is going back to where it all began.
On Friday, August 28, from 5:00 PM London time, Andrew Eborn will broadcast live from 22 Frith Street in the heart of London’s Soho, the historic location associated with television pioneer John Logie Baird and his groundbreaking early demonstrations.
It is a fitting location for a program with increasingly global ambitions.
Broadcast from iconic locations — including its floating studio on the River Thames — The Andrew Eborn Show – In London Town Tonight is being rolled out internationally, with plans to take the program to cities around the world while retaining the unmistakable personality, energy and unpredictability of London.
This week, however, the show comes from a location that helped change communications forever.
100 YEARS OF TELEVISION
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird carried out pioneering television experiments at 22 Frith Street in Soho during the 1920s.
Early images included the famous ventriloquist’s dummy Stookie Bill and the face of William Taynton, a young office worker who became part of television history.
Baird subsequently opened his workshop to members of the Royal Institution, demonstrating his television system publicly and helping introduce a technology that would eventually transform entertainment, news, politics, culture and everyday life around the globe.
The historic Soho address is now recognized as a World Origin Site, commemorating its extraordinary place in the development of television.
The BBC would later use Baird’s mechanical television system alongside the electronic EMI-Marconi system when its regular Television Service launched in November 1936, before the electronic system ultimately prevailed.
A century later, cameras will once again be rolling from Frith Street — this time carrying The Andrew Eborn Show to a worldwide audience.
FROM BAIRD TO BAR ITALIA
The story of 22 Frith Street didn’t end with the invention of television.
In 1949, Lou and Caterina Polledri opened Bar Italia at the address, creating what would become one of Soho’s most recognizable institutions.
The Polledri family’s presence expanded in 1995 with the opening of Little Italy next door, alongside business partners Claudio Camera and Pietro Veccera.
Through generations of enormous cultural change, Bar Italia and Little Italy have remained part of Soho’s heartbeat — places where artists, musicians, actors, writers, locals, visitors and night owls collide.
Space above the famous venue has been retained as a permanent tribute to Baird’s workshop, making it an extraordinary setting for this week’s broadcast.
At the centenary commemoration, Martin Wilkie of World Origin Site introduced Baird’s grandson Iain Baird, who unveiled a commemorative plaque celebrating the site’s historic importance.
Guests included Angela Rippon, Su Pollard, Melvyn Hayes, Rory Bremner, Moira Stuart, Nicholas Owen and Mike Read, with Andrew Eborn attending as a special guest of the Polledri family.
The anniversary was also covered by BBC News correspondent Tim Muffett, with Charlotte Connelly of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and Martin Wilkie.
LIVE FROM SOHO — INTERVIEWING LEGENDS
Friday’s program won’t simply look backward.
Andrew Eborn will take viewers into the streets, stories and personalities that continue to make Soho one of the most fascinating cultural neighborhoods in the world.
Among his guests will be the incomparable George Skeggs, better known as “Soho George” — The Living Legend.
Artist, style icon and walking archive of Soho history, the octogenarian has been part of the neighborhood for more than six decades.
George first arrived in Soho as a teenager in the 1950s, drawn by the exploding rock-and-roll and skiffle scenes and hoping to encounter his idol, Vince Taylor.
He became part of a world that included legendary venues such as the 2i’s Coffee Bar and has remained a familiar presence in Soho’s cafés, streets and bars ever since, with Bar Italia among his favorite haunts.
His immaculate colorful suits and distinctive hats have made him instantly recognizable, but behind the clothes is an artist and storyteller whose life spans generations of Soho culture.
George’s futuristic paintings have been exhibited locally, his image appears on a Soho mural alongside music legends, and his extraordinary connection to the neighborhood has been documented by BBC News.
He doesn’t merely remember old Soho.
He is part of it.
COMMON GROUND: TURNING DOWN THE NOISE
Alongside entertainment, The Andrew Eborn Show continues to develop Andrew’s Common Ground initiative — creating space for respectful disagreement, intelligent debate and conversations that might otherwise never happen.
Following discussions with Andrew in Cannes, Andy Burnham has committed to appearing on a future edition of the show in support of the initiative’s goal of replacing division with understanding.
In a culture increasingly built around shouting past one another, Common Ground starts with a deceptively simple idea:
Sometimes listening is more powerful than winning the argument.
PEACE, LOVE AND A GLOBAL CONVERSATION
Iseult Teran Saint Aubin (“Babba”), founder of Peace & Love CIC, will again join Andrew as part of the show’s continuing effort to bring different voices together and search for common ground.
The conversation will also explore the organization’s international humanitarian and peace-building initiatives.
Andrew Eborn has been appointed Peace & Love CIC’s first Global Ambassador, further extending a relationship built around dialogue, understanding and international cooperation.
ENTERTAINMENT WITHOUT BORDERS
A familiar face and voice across BBC, News24, Sky News, ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Times Radio, LBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Sky News Australia and TRT World, Andrew Eborn brings together broadcasting experience, legal expertise, business insight, humor and a relentless curiosity about the people behind the headlines.
The result is a show deliberately difficult to put into a box.
Music legends can share the screen with entrepreneurs. Celebrities meet campaigners. Sporting icons sit alongside artists, innovators and unexpected characters with remarkable stories.
And London itself frequently becomes another member of the cast.
From London Town to screens around the world, The Andrew Eborn Show is building a global conversation one extraordinary guest at a time.
ALL ABOARD: A GLOBAL STAGE FOR CREATIVITY
Supporting the international vision of FENIX360, The Andrew Eborn Show also provides a platform for musicians, performers and creators to reach audiences beyond traditional borders.
That spirit continues with The Andrew Eborn Show Theme Tune Challenge.
Each week, featured artists are invited to create their own original theme tune for The Andrew Eborn Show – In London Town Tonight, putting a new musical stamp on the program.
Artists can post their theme tune and tag @AndrewEborn and @OctopusTV for the opportunity to join Andrew and an ever-growing collection of stars — and potentially perform live aboard the show’s floating London studio.
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THE ANDREW EBORN SHOW – IN LONDON TOWN TONIGHT
Friday, August 28, 2026
Live from 5:00 PM London time
Broadcast from 22 Frith Street, Soho, London — the historic birthplace of television
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One hundred years after John Logie Baird helped show the world what television could become, the cameras are returning to Frith Street.
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