Posted: Wednesday, 1st September 2010 at 4:42pm by Paul
Conan O’Brien has announced the name of his new TBS talk show starting this November. It will simply be called Conan. The talk show premieres on the 8th November at 11pm on TBS.
Posted: Monday, 30th August 2010 at 4:43pm by Paul
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart has won the “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series” award at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards.
Late Night host Jimmy Fallon hosted the ceremony this year and he did such a good job rumours are suggesting he’s being lined up to host the Academy Awards early next year.
Posted: Saturday, 28th August 2010 at 7:40pm by Paul
The Graham Norton Show will move into the old Friday Night With Jonathan Ross timeslot.
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt revealed at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival the show will be on Friday nights at 10.35pm from October.
It was originally thought the BBC1 Friday night slot would remain free of talk shows until January next year.
Posted: Monday, 16th August 2010 at 12:51pm by Paul
An exclusive Katy Perry webcast will air on the official CBS Late Show website on Tuesday 24th August at 8pm ET/5pm PT as part of the long-running Live On Letterman series.
The webcast will be a live broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater.
If you’re wondering why we’ve been seeing reruns on Fridays recently, The Wahoo Gazette reveals all:
“We’re trying something new this summer. Four new shows a week, with Friday being a previously viewed Late Show. We’re seeing how it works out. Please write to the producers to let them know how much you think it’s a great idea!”
The Friday reruns are quite old shows – last Friday’s rerun was the Paul McCartney & Bruce Willis episode from last summer and next week the Friday rerun is the Madonna & Harry Connick Jr. episode also from last summer.
Friday shows are usually filmed on Mondays along with the Monday night show, so airing reruns instead will ease the workload for Dave and the crew throughout the summer.
Posted: Wednesday, 21st July 2010 at 11:27am by Paul
Craig Ferguson has announced his wife Megan Wallace is pregnant.
The Late Late Show host said on Twitter “Holy crackers! Mrs F is pregnant. How did that happen? …oh yeah I know how. Another Ferguson arrives in 2011. The world tremble”.
Craig joked it would be “awesome” to call the baby Patrick Troughton after his favourite Doctor Who actor.
Posted: Wednesday, 21st July 2010 at 11:13am by Paul
The final episode of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross aired on Friday night.
David Beckham, Jackie Chan, Mickey Rourke and Roxy Music were guests on the final show. Ross said “I should start by saying thank you to all the guests we’ve had on over the 10 years we’ve been doing the show – at least 95 per cent of them were great”.
The BBC1 show bowed out with Jonathan saying “everyone here at the BBC has always been terrific… I’ve been lucky to work over the 10 years with the most fabulous teams… the experience I’ve had here at the BBC has been a blessed one… I’ve never come in here feeling anything other than grateful, lucky and honoured, so thank you”.
Jonathan moves to ITV to host a new primetime chat show in late 2011. The final episode of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for the next few days.
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien has been nominated at this year’s Emmy Awards.
The now defunct NBC show is nominated for “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series” against The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live and Real Time With Bill Maher.
Conan tweeted “Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”.
Jay Leno spoke about the nominations for The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien on his show this week, saying “the big show business news is that the Emmy nominations were announced today… the good news: The Tonight Show got four nominations! The bad news: I didn’t get one of them… remember there’s no ‘me’ in Emmy”.
Saturday Night Live is also nominated in the “Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” category for Betty White and Tina Fey’s appearances on the show.
Posted: Wednesday, 7th July 2010 at 10:31pm by Paul
Jonathan Ross has signed a deal with ITV to host a chat show next year.
BBC News reports Jonathan’s new chat show will start “late next year” and Ross said he was “thrilled and excited” with the new ITV show. It will air in peak time, so this will likely mean it will be on earlier than his current 10.35pm BBC1 timeslot – perhaps 9pm. It’s not yet been confirmed which day of the week the chat show will air.
He said “I am thrilled and excited that after a short break I will be rolling up my sleeves and creating a brand new show for ITV1… I have worked successfully with most of the key figures at the network in the past and cannot wait to get back on screen with a fast, funny and unpredictable new talk show… I do have a little spare time at the beginning of 2011 though, so if England needs a temporary new manager I will consider the post seriously. Thank you”.
Jonathan’s final BBC1 episode will air on Friday 16th July, with guests including David Beckham and Mickey Rourke.
NBC Nightly News will return to CNBC Europe schedules later this month.
Nightly News was axed from CNBC Europe earlier this year, and this allowed The Tonight Show With Jay Leno to air uncut in a 45-minute timeslot 11pm-11.45pm.
It’s now thought The Tonight Show will return to its original cutback 30-minute timeslot 11pm-11.30pm when Nightly News returns to allow the news to air live at 11.30pm. Weekend airings of The Tonight Show should remain unaffected.
Stephen Colbert hosted The Colbert Report this week, despite being sick.
Colbert hosted the show in a robe and “nana’s blanket” – he joked “she put up quite a fight when I took it”. He made it through the show but said “I have a fever and there is nothing left in my stomach”.
Ratings for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno have fallen to their lowest they’ve been since 1992.
Variety reports “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno won the 11:30 hour in the 18-49 demo and total audience, but auds dropped from 5 million in 2009 to 4 million total viewers, which is the lowest since 1992. A major reason for the decline was large viewership a year ago for a highly publicized Tonight Show episodes, including Leno’s final night, Conan O’Brien’s first night and an interview with President Obama”.
Fox News reports “Apparently Leno is not only getting equal-to-fewer viewers than the freakishly tall redhead, his show costs NBC $10-15 million more a year than O’Brien’s show did… Leno’s higher salary — $30 million per year, compared to O’Brien’s $15 million — plus the cost of his bigger production staff could even be pushing the show into the red, according to insiders”.
Posted: Saturday, 26th June 2010 at 11:37pm by Paul
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross will finish next month – the final episode will air on the 16th July. Jonathan Ross is rumoured to be moving to ITV or Channel 4.
One of the guests on his final BBC1 show will be David Beckham – a source says “it’s all very top secret but Becks has been booked and he’s really excited”.
It was thought Russell Brand would appear on the final show and discuss the Sachsgate incident that got Brand fired from BBC Radio 2 & got Ross temporarily suspended, but reportedly the BBC won’t allow him on the show.
Conan O’Brien has put forward his version of The Tonight Show for this year’s Emmy nominations. This means The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien will go head-to-head with The Tonight Show With Jay Leno for the award of Best Variety Show.
Posted: Saturday, 24th April 2010 at 5:38pm by Paul
CNBC are now airing full one-hour episodes of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno instead of the 30-minute cutdown versions they usually air. The one-hour episodes are shown Monday-Friday at 11pm-12am UK time. The NBC Nightly News is no longer broadcast on CNBC – it used to air in the 11.30pm timeslot.
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno is still shown on a one-show delay from the US, and the normal 45-minute weekend episodes are still broadcast Saturdays and Sundays at 8pm and 8.45pm.
An update from CNBC regarding NBC Nightly News:
“NBC Nightly News will no longer be carried by CNBC in Europe. This is because of international distribution changes made by NBC Universal in the USA”
Posted: Saturday, 24th April 2010 at 4:31pm by Paul
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have signed new deals to keep them at Comedy Central for a few more years.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will remain on Comedy Central to cover the next US election and beyond.
The Associated Press reports “Comedy Central said Tuesday that in separate agreements, Stewart agreed to host “The Daily Show” through June 2013 and Colbert will stick with “The Colbert Report” until the end of 2012. The two shows air in the 11 p.m. Eastern to midnight block”.
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