CBS debuted its newest latenight show on Tuesday and the numbers are. After Midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, was watched by an average of 686,000 viewers in the 12:37am hour, per Nielsen’s live+same day fast national data. This compares to The Late Late Show with James Corden’s live+same day average of 806,000 for its final season.
In the latest TV show ratings, Part 1 of NCIS: Sydney‘s Season 1 finale on CBS was Tuesday’s most-watched program, while Fox’s The Floor tied ABC’s Celebrity Jeopardy! for the night’s highest demo rating.
It is the third time the trio will call the big game together. The telecast will be produced by Jim Rikhoff and directed by Mike Arnold.
New York governor Kathy Hochul announced Saturday that Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers-Buffalo Bills playoff game schedulled for 1 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+ will be rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET on Monday, thanks to the massive winter storm hitting the area. The game had originally been scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
The likely straight-to-series comedy would focus on Montana Jordan and Emily Osment’s characters, Georgie and Mandy.
CBS has unveiled its new structure for unscripted and specials following the departure of Jack Sussman who was EVP, specials, music, live events and alternative programming, CBS Entertainment. In his place, Mitch Graham, as EVP, alternative, will oversee unscripted and Mackenzie Mitchell will lead its specials team.
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Sussman, EVP, specials, music, live events and alternative programming, CBS Entertainment, is stepping down but will remain in business with the network as an exec producer of both The Tony Awards and The Kennedy Center Honors.
The streaming veteran is tapped to fill a newly created role “working closely with the executives of News, Stations, CBS Media Ventures, Sports and all other studio and division heads,” according to Wendy McMahon, CEO of CBS News and Stations.
The ceremony on CBS had the benefit of an NFL lead-in, as well as an especially starry gathering that drew Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Leonardo DiCaprio and many more. The night’s biggest winner, Oppenheimer, was also a huge ticket-seller, with nearly $1 billion in box office. Pictured: Golden Globes host comedian Jo Koy (Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP).
The week of the 2024 Super Bowl will see the network use the famed Fountains of Bellagio as the backdrop of its central broadcast location. CBS will offer weeklong, multiplatform coverage of the Super Bowl in sports, news and entertainment, all leading up to CBS Sports’ presentation of the game on Sunday, Feb. 11. The location will be home to shows from four CBS divisions across broadcast, cable and streaming from Monday, Feb. 5 to Sunday, Feb. 11, with four outdoor sets shared across the various shows.
Gibbs is returning to the NCIS universe as the lead of a new CBS drama, which serves as a prequel to the long-running procedural. The network has given a straight-to-series order to NCIS: Origins, about young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, for the 2024-25 broadcast season. The project comes from the two actors who have portrayed Gibbs on NCIS, Mark Harmon and his son Sean Harmon, veteran NCIS writers-producers, Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North, as well as CBS Studios, which is behind the NCIS franchise.
The network will debut the latenight show, hosted by comedian Taylor Tomlinson and based on Comedy Central’s @midnight, on Jan. 16 — or technically Jan. 17, as it debuts at 12:37 a.m. ET/PT, but at the tail end of the Jan. 16 broadcast day.
Comet and Charge! are now available on CBS Affiliates in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco while TBD and The Nest can be seen on KCAL Los Angeles.
CBS has given a straight to series order to a drama series that will see Morris Chestnut star as the iconic literary character Dr. John Watson, the companion of master detective Sherlock Holmes. The show, titled Watson, is a contemporary story set one year after the death of Holmes at the hands of his archnemesis Moriarty. The show is expected to air during the 2024-25 broadcast season.
The cable network and broadcaster held merger talks 20 years ago. A possible mega-deal between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount could bring those ideas to the forefront again.
Following a very successful second season, the cast of the paranormal comedy have renegotiated their contracts, landing big salary increases while adding an optional year to their existing deals. Produced by CBS Studios in association with Lionsgate Television and BBC Studios, Ghosts, an adaptation of a British format, stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Samantha and Jay, a young couple living alongside ghosts in a country house they’d inherited. According to sources, McIver and Ambudkar have seen their paychecks double to $250,000 an episode. All the actors playing the ghosts have been bumped up to $100,000 per episode.
“He embodies the caliber of leadership and industry expertise we sought for this pivotal role,” said Deborah Collura, president and general manager of CBS Sacramento.
Hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Nischelle Turner, the special will celebrate the groundbreaking career Of Norman Lear.
The CBS show will be in repeats this week. The news means that guests including Sarah Paulson, Jason Isbell, Mark Ruffalo, Nicki Minaj, Sara Bareilles and Rep. Liz Cheney will no longer appear on the show.
Linda Rene once proved instrumental in weaving blue-chip advertisers like Anheuser-Busch and General Motors into a fledgling CBS reality competition called Survivor. Two decades later, she is planning to get off the island. Rene, an advertising-sales veteran who has worked at CBS for more than four decades, helped expand an industry practice known as product placement and was pivotal in crafting new deals that not only had advertisers providing vehicles and beverages as set dressing, but weaving their products into a show in ways that made them as prominent as some of the cast members.
The Dec. 9 presentation will feature four new half-hour episodes of Funny You Should Ask featuring comedians Adam Carolla, Whitney Cummings, Vivica A. Fox, Billy Gardell, Jamie Kennedy, Natasha Leggero, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Ross, Sheryl Underwood and Byron Allen hosted by Jon Kelley.
Bob Hearts Abishola‘s love story is winding down. CBS announced Wednesday that the Chuck Lorre comedy will end with Season 5. Its 13-episode farewell run begins Monday, Feb. 12, while its series finale will air Monday, May 13, at 8:30 p.m. ET.
CBS’s Late Show will be on an unplanned post-Thanksgiving hiatus after host Stephen Colbert says he is recovering after surgery for a ruptured appendix.
NCIS: Sydney made its debut on Nov. 14 and, since then, it has amassed nearly 10 million total viewers across CBS and Paramount+. That’s nearly double the live + same-day audience that the episode managed. Based on three days of viewing, NCIS: Sydney is also the most-streamed CBS network premiere ever on Paramount+, according to Paramount Global.
Eight years after retiring from the CBS show, the former latenight host sat down with his successor, Stephen Colbert.
The upcoming 14th season of CBS’s venerable cop family drama Blue Bloods will be its last. The popular series starring Tom Selleck is getting an extended farewell with a two-part final season which will consist of 18 episodes. The first 10 will air this coming midseason, premiering on CBS on Feb. 16 and streaming live on Paramount+; the remaining eight will run in fall 2024.
The Golden Globes have found a new broadcast home. The upcoming 81st edition of the Hollywood awards show on Jan. 7, 2024, will air live on CBS, stream on Paramount+ and be available on the CBS app. This is a marquee slot for the show, which will follow an NFL on CBS Sunday doubleheader and is expected to be supported by a major marketing campaign.
Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic will air Dec. 21 from 9 to 11 p.m. on the network, as well as stream live and on demand for Paramount+ With Showtime subscribers. Paramount+ Essential subscribers can stream the special on demand starting Dec. 22.
CBS’s No. 1 comedy series Young Sheldon is coming to an end. The Big Bang Theory spinoff will conclude with the upcoming seventh season, which will consist of 14 episodes. Young Sheldon will air a one-hour series finale on at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 16. The news is not surprising. The upcoming Season 7, which premieres Feb. 15, is the last in a three-year pickup Young Sheldon received in 2021.
CBS will take advantage of this year’s Super Bowl to launch its truncated 2023-2024 primetime lineup the week of Feb. 12. That’s the week that most of its major series will return with new episodes, including the NCIS and FBI franchises, as well as the network’s returning comedies like the Not-As-Young-As-He-Used-To-Be Sheldon.
Before being linked to CBS’s new latenight series After Midnight, Taylor Tomlinson had little connection to the world of broadcast TV and the ebbs and flow of nocturnal programming. She is best known as an up-and-coming comic who has found success with stand-up specials on Netflix and video clips on TikTok. So how did a comedian known for her digital presence land a spot in the linear media world?
Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration concert special was announced Thursday during Nelson’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The two-hour show will air Sunday, Dec. 17 on CBS at 8:30 PT/ET, with streaming live and on-demand via Paramount+.
Paramount Global said commercial inventory for CBS’s telecast of the 2024 Super Bowl is virtually sold out. The sellout comes amid a soft market for linear TV in which sports appears to be one of the bright spots, particularly with the SAG-AFTRA strike limiting the amount of original content on the networks.
The long-awaited final installment of Yellowstone — featuring Kevin Costner ‘s final episodes — has been delayed until November 2024, the Paramount Network announced Thursday. Originally scheduled to return this month, Paramount says production was delayed by this year’s strikes by actors and screenwriters. The first half of the fifth season debuted in November 2022.
The comedian has scored the latenight CBS gig. She beat out X Mayo and Ricky Velez for the hosting job. The news was announced on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, whose host will exec produce the series, launching in 2024. Tomlinson is a rising stand-up who has released Netflix specials including Quarter-Life Crisis and Look At You.
CBS has pulled Loteria Loca from its November schedule and will be replaced by NCIS encore events, leading to the premiere of NCIS: Sydney on Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. ET. Based on the Mexican game of chance Loteria and hosted by Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin), the game show debuted on Oct. 2 and aired every Monday night in the 9 p.m. slot, following The Price Is Right at 8 p.m. Loteria Loca will air a special holiday episode in December and additional episodes will return at a later date.
Co-hosted by The Talk’s Sheryl Underwood and comedian Roy Wood Jr., the two-hour event honors Mariah Carey, Don Cheadle, Misty Copeland, Dr. Kizzmekia S Corbett-Helaire, Tamron Hall, Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Eddie Murphy, The Rev. Al Sharpton and Denzel Washington. Musical performers include Boyz II Men, Jennifer Hudson, Coco Jones, Patti LaBelle and Smokey Robinson.
