The Proms season ran from 13 July to 8 September. Early press coverage focused heavily on the fact that musical theatre star Michael Ball would be the central performer in a concert on 27 August and a concert of British film music on 14 July. This led to media accusations of "dumbing down", despite Kenyon's defence of the programme. Anniversaries marked in this Proms season included: The series also included an additional series of four Saturday matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall. The 2007 season was Kenyon's last season as controller of the BBC Proms, before he became managing director at the Barbican
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