late night television-related stories
Posted Dec 6th 2008 9:29AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Next year marks a changing of the guard for Conan O'Brien from
Late Night to
The Tonight Show. It'll be an easy transition for the fair-skinned one since he's already got a recipe for success: a die-hard audience, smart and inventive writers and puppets that curse.
The real challenge will be for Jimmy Fallon, Conan's
Late Night successor, who hasn't had much TV time since he left
Saturday Night Live for a movie career that made Chevy Chase's lineup look Lawrence Olivier-ian.
Variety reports that Fallon will first test the airwaves' waters instead of doing a full-blown cannonball by starring in some "webisodes" on
NBC.com starting Monday.
Continue reading Jimmy Fallon gears up for late night gig
Posted Aug 25th 2007 4:05PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Web
That's the finding of a researcher in Japan. He also discovered that surfing the web late at night can have an effect on your sleep habits. BREAKING NEWS!
OK, I'm being a little sarcastic here, but it seems like such an obvious conclusion that I'm sure you and I thought this was true even before any study was released.
Continue reading Fact: Late night TV can keep you up late at night
Posted Aug 16th 2007 3:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Celebrities, Talk Show
Just when we started to get into this whole "who will replace Conan O'Brien" guessing game, we might have to find a host for another late night show: Craig Ferguson hints he might leave at the end of his contract.
Ferguson reveals to the St. Petersburg Times that he could leave at the end of his six year contract because he doesn't like being famous.
"I just don't know if I like being that visible," he said. "I don't know if I would want to ramp that up any more, you know. And people here find that, I think, quite difficult to (understand)."
Continue reading More late night headaches: Craig Ferguson might leave too
Posted May 16th 2006 6:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, NBC, TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, Programming, Celebrities
Page Six
has a story today that says
Saturday Night Live head honcho Lorne Michaels was so ticked off that NBC was giving the green light to Aaron Sorkin's behind the scenes look at an
SNL-ish show (
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) that he demanded that NBC also give the green light to Tina Fey's sitcom about the behind the scenes goings on at an
SNL-ish show,
30 Rock. Michaels thinks that
SNL pretty much "made" NBC, and he couldn't believe that the network would pick up a show that was a satire of it.
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Dec 28th 2005 4:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, NBC, CBS, Late Night, Programming, PBS
- Charlie Rose: author Jed Perl and NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff
- The Late Show With David Letterman: Joaquin Phoenix, Trisha Yearwood, and Sebastien Bourdais (repeat)
- Jay Leno: Steve Martin, Tyler James Williams, and Chris Martin (repeat)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: 50 Cent, Christopher Meloni, and Morningwood (repeat)
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Billy Bob Thornton, Patton Oswalt, and The
Hold Steady (repeat)
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Chris
Isaak and Sara Gilbert (repeat)
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Jon Favreau and Juliette and the Licks (repeat)
Posted Dec 27th 2005 3:59PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, NBC, CBS, Cable, Late Night, Programming, PBS
Charlie Rose: WSJ columnist Walter Mossberg, and NetFlix CEO Reed Hastings (repeat) - The Late Show With David Letterman: Steve Martin, Michael Sessions, and the Teutuls (repeat)
- Jay Leno: George
Clooney, Steve Schirripa, and Trey Anastasio (repeat)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Cedric the Entertainmer and Kenny
Chesney (repeat)
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Ben MacKenzie, Jarod Miller, and David Feldman (repeat)
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Dennis Quaid, Bill
Nye, and Brian Stokes (repeat)
- Last Call With Carson Daly: George Lopez, Natasha Bedingfield, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (repeat)
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