The Proms at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested "that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending" and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience. Her comments received wide criticism in the musical world and media as being a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Proms, with Gordon Brown even distancing himself from her remarks. In the 2009 season, which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time. The principal anniversary composers
Night of the Dead running the event deem worthy. There is also often an appearance by somebody involved with the making of one of the films shown for a Q&A session. This took place from midnight on 6 November 2004. The films shown were "I'll See You In My Dreams" (a short), "", "El Ciclo" (another short), "Monster Man", "Una de Zombis" and "Black Sunday". Night of the Dead IV was the last to take place at the Lounge Cinema. Kicking off at midnight of 12 November 2005 with the short film "The French Doors", the event continued, alternating between long and short with