Late Show UK

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.

A really quick post - did you know you can get RSS feeds for each category here on the blog? All you need to do is add feed on the end of a URL, for example;

http://www.lateshowuk.com/category/shows/late-show/feed/

Add that to your RSS reader, and get all the posts made to the Late Show category. RSS is fantastic and we’re working hard to bring more feeds to the site and making them easier to find. If there’s a feed you want, please leave a comment on this post or contact us. A great feed reader is Google Reader.

Update: There’s now an even quicker way to subscribe to our main feed. In Internet Explorer, click the feed icon in the toolbar. In Firefox, click the feed icon in the address bar. In Safari, click the RSS icon in the address bar. This feed contains all posts.

Read more about RSS feeds on our page here.

July proves to be a packed month here on Late Show UK. Coming this month to the website - weekend roundups of the Late Show With David Letterman and audio podcasts. The roundups will be published every weekend (except when there’s reruns, of course), and will cover everything that’s been happening on the Late Show that week - guests, jokes, etc.

The podcasts will compliment these weekly roundups of the Late Show - the podcasts will cover everything that’s been going on that week on all the big shows, including guests and will also discuss what’s coming up on the shows, and any relevant news. Podcasts will be available at www.lateshowuk.com/podcasts, and will eventually be available on iTunes - all for free.

The first Late Show roundup will be on the 14th/15th July and audio podcasts will be launching around the same time.

We’ve got a brand new MySpace page - www.myspace.com/lateshowuk. It’s only just been created, so please send in your friend requests and we can start building up our web community. Our Facebook profile can be found by clicking here.

We now provide guest listings for the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. Just go to www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings and click on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson can be found on CBS in America - directly after the Late Show With David Letterman. For more information on the Late Late Show, please go to www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate. We will also be covering any news and info relating to the Late Late Show as and when it happens.

We now have guest listings for The Colbert Report, in addition to the other shows. So, now you can get all the guest info for the Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Just head over to www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings and click on the relevant links there. Thank you.

As you may know, the last few weeks’ email newsletters from us have been fairly few and far between. We will now be sending out your email newsletters on weekends instead of during the week, which should mean you’ll see one in your Inbox either on a Saturday or Sunday every single week - instead of one every now and again. Sorry about the newsletter sending-out schedules recently, but we are now hopeful to bring it to you on the weekend so you can plan your viewing for the upcoming week’s worth of shows. If you’d like to signup to our email newsletters (they are completely free and you can opt-out of recieving them at any time) - which contain guest listings for all shows and any relevant news - please go to www.lateshowuk.com/email-newsletters to sign up. Thank you.

The first ever weekend newsletter will be sent out on the weekend of the 31st March to the 1st April.

Hi,

Welcome back to Late Show UK. We’ve been offline since yesterday evening - this was because we have now moved onto our superfast new hosting, so we hope you notice browsing this site is now very quick and stable. We have also bought www.lateshowuk.net - so you can now reach us from either www.lateshowuk.com or www.lateshowuk.net (which redirects to the .com address). If you experience any problems, please send us a message to let us know.

The email newsletters will be sent out tomorrow night, so check your Inbox for yours tomorrow. :) We are still hoping to bring you the weekly show roundups (sorry about the delay getting them started up) - hopefully we’ll start writing roundups for some of the weeks in March. To sign up for the free weekly email newsletters, please go to www.lateshowuk.com/email-newsletters.

Best regards,
The Late Show UK team - James and Paul.

Hi,

We’re back! Apologises for our absense over the past couple of weeks - we have been working hard to relaunch the website with a new angle - and thought we’d try out some new and exciting ideas. Late Show UK will focus on unique content - news, guest listings, biographies, etc - as well as providing links to some of the best chat show websites around, email newsletters direct to your Inbox every Monday evening, and more!

We really love websites that are very interactive - and now you can comment on any news item on the website and give us your views. This website is as much about you as it is about us. We also love your feedback, so please get in touch via the Contact Us page.

As mentioned above, the email newsletters are still a key feature of the website - available every Monday evening to your Inbox in either HTML or plain text format. There won’t be a newsletter this Monday (11th December) - but they will be returning very soon.

The guest listings are available along with the other content in the menu on the right hand side of the website, and - as the website has just relaunched - we will be bringing up any sections that say “Coming soon” on them as soon as we possibly can.

In the meantime, please bear with us whilst we finish tinkering with the website and polishing all the pages.

The website will be updated several times a week - as well as over the Christmas and New Year break.

Enjoy the site, and speak to you soon.

Welcome back to Late Show UK, the fansite for late night chat shows in the US.

We’ve adopted a new approach with WordPress as the engine of choice. You can browse around the pages on the right, or check out all the posts in categories. Don’t forget to add the new RSS feeds to your aggregator.

More soon, James.