The Definitive Guide to Comedy
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
What’s so special about 11 p.m. Thursdays? Thursdays are the new Fridays, or Must-See TV has shifted from primetime to late-night in 2016, because both the History channel and truTV are jumping into the comedy fray with weekly ventures in the 11 p.m. hour (Eastern/Pacific) that include throwing all sorts …
AMC has aired five seasons and counting of Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men, which follows the filmmaker and his friends as they geek out at his New Jersey comic-book store. Smith has podcasted for more than 300 episodes over nine years with his SModcast. So why not have Smith host …
Such is the state of late-night TV in 2016 that of the two best, most necessary must-see programs, one doesn’t air on weeknights, the other isn’t even on in “late-night,” neither airs more than once a week and both owe much to their previous boss, who isn’t on TV now …
FOX is bringing sketch comedy back to late-night Saturdays, and it’s enlisting former Saturday Night Live digital stars The Lonely Island to do so??? Hold on. Not so fast. Yes, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island are executive producing Party Over Here with Paul Scheer — …
The debut of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be easier to find on your TV screens next Monday, as the Turner portfolio of networks will simulcast the premiere episode — with TNT, Adult Swim, truTV and HLN also airing the TBS launch of Full Frontal at 10:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. …
Getting over David Letterman’s retirement certainly won’t be easy. It’ll take more than mental feats of strength, or even the final season of The Mentalist — and yet, CBS has chosen the latter for the short-run. Starting Thursday, CBS stations will rebroadcast the final 12 episodes of The Mentalist’s seventh …
Check out the first brand-new teaser clip promoting Samantha Bee’s upcoming entrance into the late-night TV game as the only female host in a world full of Jimmys. TBS debuted this clip today as part of the Turner Networks’ annual Upfronts presentation to advertisers. In it, Bee surmises a wall …
For the first time in two years, MTV is getting back into the late-night talk show arena, announcing a series order with Big Breakfast for Middle of the Night Show, along with a weekly spin-off talker for Girl Code called Girl Code Live. Both announcements came late Tuesday during MTV’s Upfronts presentation …
FOX News announced late Thursday that Greg Gutfield, the former lad mag editor who launched the cable network’s late-night talker, Red Eye, in 2007, would leave the program to develop a new one-hour weekend show in primetime for the Republican-leaning news/opinion channel. Gutfield already also is a co-host on weekday …
