Late Show UK

David Letterman is to be interviewed for an upcoming special of The Howard Stern Show on Sirius radio. This is very rare – Dave rarely gives interviews and isn’t usually seen out and about on other shows other than the Late Show. Although, Dave has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show this year, and has also dropped in on Regis Philbin on Live With Regis And Kelly following Regis’ recovery from heart bypass surgery (something Letterman went through himself a few years ago). The Howard Stern Show special will be a life story of Howard Stern’s career. The New York Post website says the first part of the special radio programme will air on the 17th December “on one of Stern’s two Sirius radio channels”. The New York Post reveals the radio special “is expected to feature interviews with a slew of Stern regulars and celebrity friends. Among them is Letterman, who, outside of his own show, rarely grants interviews”. Letterman used to be quite a regular guest on Howard’s various radio shows, and Stern has appeared on the Late Show many times in recent years.

The New York Post – “Letterman Gives Stern Interview”

Guest Listings checked and updated – www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings

Reruns this week due to the US writers strike

Monday 26th November – Nick Cannon, Alan Bean, Jeremy Fisher (Rerun)
Tuesday 27th November – Samuel L. Jackson, the Cliks (Rerun)
Wednesday 28th November – Chris Isaak, Cory Kahaney (Rerun)
Thursday 29th November – Julia Stiles, Carl Bernstein (Rerun)
Friday 30th November – John Waters, Alex Borstein, Plain White T’s (Rerun)

Reruns this week due to the US writers strike

Monday 26th November – Bill Murray, Jay-Z (Rerun)
Tuesday 27th November – Al Franken, Isla Fisher (Rerun)
Wednesday 28th November – Bruce Willis, Jason Randal (Rerun)
Thursday 29th November – Adam Sandler, Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg, Mute Math (Rerun)
Friday 30th November – Former Vice President Al Gore, Jim Short (Rerun)

The Late Show is back on UK TV screens on new channel, Diva TV – Available on Virgin Media channel 192 and Sky Digital channel 282 – Letterman is shown at 9pm weeknights and reruns on Saturdays and Sundays at 11pm. Diva TV shows it on a delay – which varies – so check the “Upcoming Shows” box at the top right of the sidebar for Diva TV schedules (listings on the “Guest Listings” pages are US airdates).

Updated 1st December 2007.

You may have noticed The Daily Show With Jon Stewart reruns are no longer airing on More 4. This is just because of the WGA writers strike in the US – I assume More 4 feel the repeat airings would not attract as many viewers as new shows, so they have scheduled other programming in the 8.30pm slot weeknights. The Daily Show is expected to return to the channel when the WGA writers strike ends – we have no reason to believe otherwise.

‘More 4′ TV listings at channel4.com

In a recent interview with Chron.com, the always hilarious Richard Simmons was asked why he keeps going on the Late Show after being the subject of many a joke on the programme. Richard answers “After I went on the show, 200,000 people went to my Web site and wrote e-mails to (Sen.) Ted Kennedy and (Rep.) George Miller to get P.E. back in the school system. That’s the power of the David Letterman Show”. To see what we mean when we say ‘hilarious’ – check out this;

Chron.com – “Simmons isn’t one to throw weight around”
Richard Simmons’ October 2007 appearance on the Late Show (YouTube video)

The latest reports suggest the producers for the major US chat shows – the Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Night With Conan O’Brien – are in talks to bring back the shows from early December. An article on Variety says “according to several network execs with knowledge of the situation, there’s been talk of resuming production on some shows as early as next month, with Dec. 3 and Dec. 10 mentioned as possible return dates”. It’s still certainly not 100% known what will be happening – for example, the latest data available to us for listings for next week, shows new episodes of The Tonight Show and Late Night With Conan O’Brien (possibly with guest hosts instead of Jay and Conan), but nobody knows for sure. Variety also reports “so far, ratings for the latenight shows haven’t been dramatically hurt by the strike — but there are signs of erosion”.

Update – 17th November – 22:00 – The latest data we have now suggests there will be reruns next week for The Tonight Show and Late Night (and all the other chat shows). Keep checking www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings for any developments.[/end of update]

A Worldwide Pants spokesman for the Late Show and Late Late Show told Variety “next week’s tapings of ‘The Late Show’ and ‘The Late, Late Show’ have been canceled, and we will continue to make a week-by-week determination about future tapings”. Silicon Alley Insider says “NBC, which owns the Leno and O’Brien shows, has told the staffs of those two shows that they will be paid at least for the next two weeks”. David Letterman has already said he will continue to pay his staff some form of payment throughout the strike. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are likely to stay in reruns for the forseeable future.

Silicon Alley Insider – “Leno, Letterman Coming Back. Will Strike Crumble?”
Variety – “Latenight hosts may be coming back”
Late Show UK – Guest Listings

New system implemented for our email newsletters (including a more simple signup process) – www.lateshowuk.com/email-newsletters

Guest Listings updated for all shows – www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings

Email newsletters have been sent out for this week – www.lateshowuk.com/email-newsletters

Further update for The Tonight Show and Late Night listings (reruns now scheduled for next week) – www.lateshowuk.com/guest-listings

Post updated on 17th November at 22:06.