Mediaweek’s report / analysis on the axing of The Late Show
That clip just aired on the airing of The Late Show on 10 (aest).
Also, Seven News at 6pm (in Sydney) mentioned that the show was finishing up. I didn’t see it but they mentioned that the story was coming up after 6.30pm.
I think Democrat Senator Adam Schiff said it best.
“He (Trump_ wants to make the law firms afraid,” Schiff told Colbert. “He wants to make universities afraid. He wants to make immigrants afraid. he wants to make citizens afraid. He wants to make news organizations, CBS and Paramount afraid. He wants to make ABC afraid. And he is succeeding.”
It will be interesting to see if CBS regret swinging the axe down the track. It’s easy to drop a show but difficult to win a new audience.
As we are now seeing with The Project.
What are they replacing it with?
It sounds like they’re not planning on replacing it with anything. They’re going to let local stations run whatever they like. I think that means it will end up being repeats of different shows in each place.
That’s very sad.
It is and it could have wider implications across television. Other late shows might also be dropped to save networks money.
Three things to look for:
1 - does this get the Paramount-Skydance deal through?
2 - does this keep Trump and the FCC off our backs?
3 - do we get more money from this?
If the answer to at least 2 of these is YES, then, for CBS, it’s worth it.
Colbert will find a new platform to rag on the Mutant Orange™. I’m sure of that.
There used to be a “late late show” that followed The Late Shows, with Craig Ferguson then with James Corden. I was going to say that they can move that forward. But just checked that there’s no late late show anymore that follows Stephen Colbert’s show. So there goes that theory of mine. lol.
So certainly has been a decline in Late Shows in the US in very recent times, and in coming months.
Curiously, I do have to wonder how The Late Show was rating here on10 at the midnight slot. We sometimes saw The Project (repeats) ratings for the 11pm-ish slots, and that seemed to rate okay-ish.
NBC still does that with Late Night
Which was also on 10, which is owned by…
There was, for these past few years, a Panel Game format called After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson, but that also got axed earlier this year when TT wanted to do more stand-up.
Would / could CBS revive that as a cheaper 11:30 option (doesn’t need to set the ratings on fire, but it could do ok and be a serviceable, slightly unconventional late night option)
If CBS are gonna keep 11:35, the most likely thing they’ll do is to expand Byron Allen’s brokered-time deal by moving the Comics Unleashed reruns that restart in September at 12:37 to 11:35, and giving him that second hour for his Funny You Should Ask game show.