Late Show UK

To sign the petition to get The Colbert Report on UK television, please click here.

This is a petition to show UK audiences want to see The Colbert Report on TV over here. The Colbert Report follows The Daily Show in the US. More 4 currently air The Daily Show on their channel, so The Colbert Report would make an ideal follow-on programme, as The Daily Show is always referencing The Colbert Report in their programme and at the end of the show (although this is sometimes edited out). Please sign this petition to show there’s a fanbase for the show in the UK.

Please also go to our Petitions page to find the link for our other petitions.

To sign the petition to get the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on UK television, please click here.

This is a petition created to show there’s a fanbase for the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson in the UK. We would like to raise awareness that people living in the UK would love to see this programme via cable, Sky or Freeview. We are calling on television broadcasters to consider airing the show on their channels. Diva TV currently airs the Late Show With David Letterman, so it would be ideal if they could air the Late Late Show as well.

Please also go to our Petitions page to find the link for our CNBC Europe petition.

You can now follow Late Show UK on Twitter, a platform that is typically used for posting updates, like a very small, simple blog. Twitter messages – or tweets – are then displayed on your own page, and in a single page a user can see all their friends tweets. Messages can also be sent as an SMS message.

To follow Late Show UK, sign up for an account at Twitter. Then, view our profile and click the Follow button. If you choose notifications and SMS updates you’ll get a text message every time we add a new blog post, or a small piece of news that we only post to Twitter.

You can also follow the latest posts if you scroll down the lateshowuk.com sidebar.

^ Darlene Love performing Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) on the Late Show With David Letterman’s Christmas Special in 2006.

As the launch date of Diva TV gets even closer (25 days to go according to our countdown in the sidebar), news has emerged of a timeshifted version of the channel, which is said to launch on the same day as the normal version (1st October). Diva TV and Diva TV +1 will be available on Sky, but will probably not be available on Virgin Media from launch. Having the +1 version of Diva TV will mean Letterman fans can watch the Late Show at either 9pm (on the normal version) or at 10pm (on the +1 timeshifted version) – or watch it twice! The source for this is here. Diva TV is an NBC Universal / Sparrowhawk Media channel.

We’ve had some official news through from Sparrowhawk Media, who’ll be launching their new channel Diva TV on the 1st October featuring the Late Show With David Letterman. They say they will “be showing episodes anything 2-6 weeks after tx in the US (depending on the delivery of tapes from the distributors)” and they’ll “run shows 5 days a week at 9pm”. Sparrowhawk Media also states “for the time being it will be on Sky only” but they’re “hoping for carriage on Virgin Media in the near future”. The show will air in 4:3 format. The 9pm timeslot sounds fantastic – certainly miles better than ITV2 and ITV4′s late night (early morning) airings – let’s hope they can secure Virgin Media carriage.

We’ve got a brand new YouTube channel – showcasing the best moments in US chat show history. Just head over to www.lateshowuk.com/video-clips for more information, or go directly to www.youtube.com/lateshowuk.

Updated 28/07/2007 – A posting by Credit Broadcast Magazine reveals a new channel from Sparrowhawk Media (who own and run the Hallmark channel) will be showing the Late Show With David Letterman when it launches in the UK later this year. The channel will be called Diva TV and will be initially available on Sky. The channel launches on the 1st October. This is fantastic news for Letterman fans in the UK, as it means those with Sky can easily watch the show every night – providing they put it on at a regular timeslot at an earlier time than ITV4 did. It’s not clear whether Diva TV will launch on other platforms – such as cable platform, Virgin Media – but we certainly hope it does. In addition to the Late Show, Diva TV have also acquired the rights for the Oprah Winfrey Show and Rachael Ray (also both from CBS). Diva TV is going to be aimed towards female viewers, so we’re not sure how well the Late Show will fit into the schedules – but it’s great news to have him back on UK TV. More news on this as and when it’s released.