Late Show UK

CNBC Europe have made changes to their schedules this week, and as of yesterday (1st February) they are no longer airing The Tonight Show With Jay Leno according to the latest TV listings.

Jay Leno’s long-running talk show is replaced by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on CNBC Europe.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon replaces all airings of The Tonight Show on the channel – the 11pm Monday-Friday timeslot (in a cutdown 30-minute timeslot) and the rerun slots on Saturdays & Sundays at 8pm and 8.45pm (full length 45-minute shows).

Fallon’s talk show will air on a one-show delay from NBC like The Tonight Show has done previously.

CNBC Europe have a brand new page for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on their website – click here. Their former page for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno has been removed from the website.

For the latest CNBC Europe TV listings click here to visit The Guardian’s website.

CNBC Europe is available on Sky channel 505 and Virgin Media channel 613.

Click here for our Where To Watch page for further details on how to watch your favourite talk shows.

Craig Ferguson is reportedly “in talks” to bring his popular late night CBS talk show the Late Late Show to Scotland for a week later this year.

According to The Daily Record “he has told friends he’s keen to return to Scotland in March and record a week’s worth of material at the place where it all began. He has enlisted the help of Fringe comedy impresario Karen Koren and contacted Tommy Sheppard at The Stand Comedy Club about appearing for a few dates this year”.

An insider told The Daily Record “he may record five shows here in a row around March with the possibility of a further few gigs at the Edinburgh Festival later in the year”.

The Daily Record – “Craig Ferguson to bring his hit US chat show to Scotland”

Comedy Central UK have launched a minisite for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

There have been many frustrations for UK fans of The Daily Show in recent times – first the official website for The Daily Show on Comedy Central US blocked all clips if you were outside of the States, then the show was axed from More 4 so there was nowhere left to watch it.

The new minisite from Comedy Central UK provides clips of The Daily Show for UK viewers, but not full episodes yet.

In a news piece on the Comedy Central UK website, they say:

We know there’s a huge Daily Show fan base here in the UK but most of you can’t access the US video clips. Argh! Here’s where Comedy Central UK comes in.

As we don’t air the show on the channel, we can’t bring you full episodes online at present BUT every week we’ll be bringing you specially selected clips from each of the shows from the past 30 days including interviews with Jon’s special guests, The Daily Show 60 Second round ups and of course the Moments of Zen.

Click here to visit the new minisite.

Will The Daily Show be coming to Comedy Central UK on TV eventually? I hope so.

Guests for the Christmas Special of The Jonathan Ross Show have been announced:

Tom Cruise will be promoting his new film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison from TV show The Inbetweeners will be discussing the DVD release of the summer smash hit film version of the show.

Downton Abbey favourites Jessica Brown-Findlay, Michelle Dockery and Laura Carmichael will be talking about their upcoming Christmas Special airing on Christmas Day.

Comedian Tim Minchin and music from Il Volo – a trio of Italian operatic pop teenage tenors from American Idol – will round off the guest lineup.

The Jonathan Ross Show Christmas Special will air on ITV1 on Friday 23rd December (yes, Jonathan is back on Friday nights for one week only!) at 9am through to 10.15pm.

ITV Press Centre – “The Jonathan Ross Show – Week 51″

As we posted last weekend, Coldplay performed a special Live On Letterman concert for the Late Show in September, and separately performed a track for an episode of the Late Show With David Letterman.

Coldplay seemed to enjoy their time at the Ed Sullivan Theater so much that they refused to leave and gave an impromptu encore performance of Us Against The World for the Late Show audience.

Their roadies were trying to clear the equipment away at the time, but Chris and the band just wanted to carry on and perform. Chris had problems with his microphone so played the encore performance without one.

Contactmusic reports “Slowly everyone joins in on stage. Will realises that Chris has taken the piano stool, so ends up kneeling on the floor. Jonny and Guy have their volume backed almost to off. The whole thing is just a joy to witness. Completely off the script, unplanned and ramshackle, but at the same time completely wonderful. Just the band and the audience sharing the moment”.

They say one of the roadies stated “roadies commence unplugging and switching off and then suddenly Chris is spotted walking back to the stage. Further chaos and pandemonium ensues as it transpires they’re going to do Us Against the World”.

Watch the special encore performance below – recorded by somebody in the Ed Sullivan Theater crowd:

Contactmusic – “Coldplay – Coldplay’s Surprise Encore”

Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton are both nominated for Best Talk Show at the National TV Awards.

Jonathan Ross is nominated for his old Friday Night show whereas Graham Norton is nominated for his own talk show which replaced Jonathan’s on BBC1 Friday nights in the same timeslot when Friday Night With Jonathan Ross ended last year.

The National TV Awards take place in January.

BBC News – “Graham Norton battles Jonathan Ross for TV award”

Popular British band Coldplay stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater this week to play a special concert as part of the Live On Letterman series of webcasts.

The concert was streamed live on the CBS Late Show website and is now available to watch on demand on their website:

In addition to the Live On Letterman webcast concert, Coldplay also performed their new song Paradise on an episode of the Late Show this week: