From 2010 to 2020 individual programmes were available for online streaming at BFI InView. In 2020 Simon Heffer wrote in "The Daily Telegraph" that "the time is surely ripe for the return of a programme such as "After Dark"" and "The Guardian" listed "After Dark" as one of the "jewels" in the history of television - "it offered a thing that's now extinct: constructive debate". In 2021 "The Daily Telegraph" wrote of the "remarkable" "curious brilliance" of the show: "It feels like the art of reasonable discussion has been lost in the modern world...increasingly sanitised and controlled since the freeform days of "After Dark"".