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
The Edge of Night the network was worried that a three-month absence would result in a loss of viewers. Instead, a compromise was struck where CBS would keep "The Edge of Night" on its schedule for the time being, and once ABC found a place for it, which it did when they cancelled "You Don't Say!" in November 1975, the expansion and network change would take place. The last CBS episode of "The Edge of Night" on November 28, 1975, ended with the discovery that Nicole Drake was alive. She had been presumed dead in an explosion eighteen months earlier while on a boating