The show was re-run as a six-part compilation series by the BBC from October to December 1997. Entitled "The Wogan Years", each episode featured highlights from the show's decade-long run, with new introductions to each segment by Wogan himself. This concept was updated some eighteen years later as Wogan: The Best Of (2015).
In early 1985, the new controller of BBC One, Michael Grade, revamped the schedule to coincide with the launch of EastEnders (1985) and put Wogan on for three nights a week at 7pm.
Terry Wogan often admitted he wasn't a huge fan of the series, not believing it to be substantial, and often irritated by guests.
In The Observer (28th March 2004) he was quoted as saying: "I used to get furious inside. I'm not a great fan of anybody, so I'd be looking at them [...] You get a bloody actor who's on an upper or a downer - too far over the top because he's taken something up his nose or another pill - and you think: why come on the show if you don't want to talk? Idiot."
In The Observer (28th March 2004) he was quoted as saying: "I used to get furious inside. I'm not a great fan of anybody, so I'd be looking at them [...] You get a bloody actor who's on an upper or a downer - too far over the top because he's taken something up his nose or another pill - and you think: why come on the show if you don't want to talk? Idiot."
In Top of the Pops: The Story of 1986 (2018), Madness alleged that they were banned from the show, but "we can't really talk about that." The banning was also referenced by lead singer Suggs in his 2013 autobiography "That Close", with him citing Wogan as just one of many shows they'd been banned from: "We'd cock something up or mime irreverently and we'd get banned."
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