Re: Late Night TV Is Obsolete

On 7/19/25 5:15 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 7/19/25 2:58 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-07-18 3:04 AM, Your Name wrote:

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"Financial decision" ...
translation: greedy-ass Stephen Colbert wanted a lot more money and
we're not paying.
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     CBS to Cancel 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
     Citing 'Financial Decision'
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     TV's ongoing problems with late night have come for Stephen Colbert,
     with CBS announcing Thursday that it plans to end his "Late Show"
     after the next TV season, citing a "financial decision."
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     The maneuver - which ends years of original late-night programming
     at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC
     in 1993 - comes as the economics of wee-hours TV have begun to
     accelerate, with media companies growing wary of the high price tags
     involved in producing the shows while the young viewers they try to
     attract watch more of them via digital video.
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<https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-cancel-late-show-stephen-
colbert- financial-decision-1236464356/>

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The whole lot of the current crop of late night hosts should be fired
for their sheer smarminess. Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel, and the rest. Get
someone genuinely funny like Craig Ferguson who has fun with his guests
instead of trying to lecture the audience on what their politics should
be. That's *my* prescription for fixing late night TV.

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Yes, but...
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Yes, late night is now dead because someone thought it was a keen idea
to make all the late night hosts ultra-woke, reactionary, Democrat
partisans. (To be fair, I don't really think that's true of Jimmy
Fallon, who seems more like an "everyman-drunk comic". But it's true of
all the rest.) And replacing most of those with at least non-partisan
(or bi-partisan) hosts would help.
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But the truth is that late-night TV talk shows were destined to die
anyway. They were originally a product of the "three network universe",
and really have no reason to survive in the "post-500 channel TV
streaming universe".
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If something like "The Soup" can't even survive these days (and it looks
like YouTube and TikTok pretty much killed that), then the late-night
talk shows have no hope of surviving! even if they were depoliticized.
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 No, the slovenly mother of the slovenly Kardashian whores killed the soup.
She asked the head of the channel to get them to leave her fat pig
daughters alone and they buckled and asked Joel. And Joel said that if his
own channel wasn’t fair game, then it was over, and he shut down the soup.
Because of the fat pigs scum garbage Kardashian whores.

That's what killed it on E!.
But Joel took what was basically an R-rated version of "The Soup" to Netflix. It died after 1 season of just a couple of months of episodes.
That tells me that a show like that won't work anymore - I think there are too many YouTube copycats for a show like that now.