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CBS Entertainment Chair Nina Tassler told TV critics Monday during the TCA Winter Press Tour what most astute viewers probably already had figured out: Stephen Colbert’s edition of The Late Show will kick off this September. Specifically, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 — the night after Labor Day. The Late Show …
Michael Somerville returned to the Late Show with David Letterman to round out the first full week of 2015. Speaking of rounding out, Somerville joked about trying a no-carb diet, and about his no-love for vegetables. Want more jokes? Roll the clip.
Esther Povitsky returned to The Late Late Show on Wednesday with some new goals for the new year. And just like you, perhaps, she’s going to the gym. But what if you look around and all of the other people at the gym aren’t yet at shape? Then again, she …
Guest host Drew Carey introduced Ryan Hamilton on Tuesday’s Late Late Show by calling him “one of the best guys working” and one of his favorites, and Hamilton had fun explaining that New York City’s attitude of “if you can make it there” might not square with other places, even …
The Late Late Show returned to CBS in 2015 with its first guest host in the post-Ferguson era, and Drew Carey had stand-up comedian Lachlan Patterson booked Monday night. Patterson, a runner-up on the 2014 season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, had more than a few words for George Foreman …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Starting your final episode with a showstopping all-star musical number, and closing with an homage to three classic TV finales plus a callback to your first big break in American TV: Well, Craig Ferguson never did want to play by the rules or traditions of television, anyhow. He wanted to …
The Late Late Show on CBS will have its first-ever in-house musical bandleader when James Corden debuts in March 2015, and it’s none other than one-man musical genius Reggie Watts! Watts comes with plenty of mock-talk show experience as the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott Aukerman, which …
The final night of the official 2014-2015 TV season also will bid a fond farewell to Late Show with David Letterman, as Letterman, his Worldwide Pants production shingle and CBS announced today that his final broadcast would air May 20, 2015. “David Letterman has given to all of us a …
American audiences are just warming up to James Corden. Broadway fans already bestowed a Tony Award to Corden a couple of years ago, and Brits know him from sitcoms such as Gavin and Stacey and panel chats. This Christmas, Corden stars in the new season of The Wrong Mans on …
