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The network is trying to develop partnerships with a cluster of marketers that typically find their customers among decision-making executives at corporations. One such advertiser is Codingscape, a technology consultant that sees an alliance with Tomlinson as something that will help get potential clients to view the company as innovative. Instead of putting traditional TV ads on Tomlinson’s latenight show, however, Codingscape wants to run digital ads with its message posted alongside clips of her in action.

Stewart, who walked away from The Daily Show to much fanfare, returns to his old perch Monday night. He’s agreed to host each Monday through the election, and to executive produce the weeknight show for Comedy Central into next year to help it through another transition.

Comedy Central on Wednesday said Stewart will host the topical TV show, the perch he ruled for 16 years starting in 1999, every Monday starting Feb. 12. A rotating lineup of show regulars are on tap for the rest of the week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eight years after retiring from the CBS show, the former latenight host sat down with his successor, Stephen Colbert.

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. 

The end of the writers strike and the return of original shows to late night have been a boon for advertisers, according to EDO, which tracks the effectiveness of ad campaigns.

The season 49 premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was the show’s most effective episode for advertisers since EDO began tracking engagement in 2015. With former SNL cast member turned Taco Bell spokesman Pete Davidson as host, consumers were 102% more likely to engage with ads, and the show was 8.5% more effective than the next most-engaging episode on a per-person per-second basis.

The Late Show was not on the air last night as a result of Stephen Colbert’s COVID diagnosis and it has now emerged that he’s taking the rest of the week off. Colbert contracted COVID earlier this week and started off by hosting a show at home – much like he did during the pandemic. However, the CBS show was pulled yesterday and has also been pulled for the rest of the week.

Saturday Night Live was welcomed back to the airwaves with open arms. The Season 49 premiere managed 4.8M viewers on NBC, according to Nielsen data. That marks a 19% audience increase versus the Season 48 premiere. The episode, hosted by Pete Davidson with musical guest Ice Spice, also scored a 0.96 rating among the 18-49 entertainment demographic, which is up 31% over last year to become the best demo performance since the season premiere in 2020.

Latenight might be back, but there are still a few challenges. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is pivoting to an at home-like show after the comedian contracted COVID. The show will go on remotely with a monologue; Colbert is pretty used to that having previously hosted the show at his house during the pandemic, including from his own bathtub.

The long-running sketch comedy show will premiere Season 49 on Oct. 14, NBC announced Wednesday. Former cast member Pete Davidson will host, making good on a plan to have him host last May. The comedian will be joined by first-time musical guest Ice Spice.

Latenight was back in full force on Monday night. “It feels good to be back,” Stephen Colbert said at the start of his Oct. 2 monologue — his first since May 1, the last evening before the WGA strike commenced the following day. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host opened the show by reintroducing himself: “In case you’ve forgotten my name is Jimmy. I have been off the air for five months. We’ve been gone so long, The Bachelor is now a grandfather.

CBS’s  The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon were the first shows to leave the air when the writers strike began on May 2, and now will be among the first to return on Monday night. Comedian John Oliver got his first take on the strike out, exuberantly returning Sunday night to his Last Week Tonight show on HBO and delivering full-throated support for the strike.

Bill Maher led the charge back to work by announcing early Wednesday that his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher would be back on the air Friday. By mid-morning, the hosts of NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS had announced they’d also return, all by Monday. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was slated to return to the air Sunday.

Saturday Night Live should get pretty much a full season after the writers and the studios reached an agreement to end the strike. The NBC show had Season 48 cut short by three episodes when the writers walked out at the beginning of May. The show, which traditionally restarts at the very end of September or the beginning of October, is now likely to return on either Oct. 7 or 14, pending a vote by the WGA.

The latenight TV landscape has been silenced by Hollywood strikes, leaving audiences with fewer laughs, depriving candidates of an easy way to get attention and generally upsetting the nation’s normal political discourse.

The Hollywood strikes and the trouble at The Tonight Show are a reminder that hosts are not just your TV friends. They’re also people’s bosses.

The Byron Allen-hosted comedy talk show will begin a limited run on Monday, Sept. 18.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are launching a limited podcast series about their experiences navigating the writers and actors strike. The group, who were some of the first to down tools when the WGA called its strike in early May, are launching Strike Force Five on Spotify. The proceeds from the show, which launches on Aug. 30 and is sponsored by Mint Mobile and Diageo, will go to out-of-work latenight staff from their shows.

While speaking at the Banff TV Festival on Tuesday, CBS CEO George Cheeks revealed that CBS had reached a contract extension with the comedian to continue as host of its top-rated The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for another three years. His current pact was set to expire this year. “We just extended him for three more years and I was praying for that to happen,” Cheeks said.

James Corden was joined by 1.43 million people for the farewell to CBS’s The Late Late Show on Thursday night. The audience for the final episode of The Late Late Show was up 77% over the show’s season-to-date average live+same-day viewership (which was about 806,000). It was also the show’s largest audience on any day of the week since January 2021 following the AFC Championship Game.

James Corden used part of his farewell speech on Thursday’s final episode of CBS’s The Late Late Show to address the deep rift in America over hot button issues including politics and ideology. “We started this show with Obama, then Trump and a global pandemic. I’ve watched America change a lot. I’ve watched divisions grow and I’ve felt a sense of negativity boil over,” said the host. He implored his audience to “remember what America signifies to the rest of the world.”

The Writers Guild of America is adding pressure on Hollywood studios, highlighting how their shows and streaming platforms will be affected by a strike if it happens on May 2.

Fill-ins for Trevor Noah have shown how exciting the lack of a permanent replacement could be. It’s an option with an illustrious history in television.

James Corden aims to leave the late-night stage in a big way. CBS plans to broadcast the last hour of its The Late Late Show, which Corden has hosted since March of 2015, on Thursday, April 27, and will add a primetime special that night to help mark the occasion. Tom Cruise will reunite with Corden for one big sketch to air during the primetime special.

Wilmore is writing, executive producing and is set to star in Lately, described as a behind-the-scenes look at the upstairs-downstairs dynamics of the people who work at a latenight talk show, sources say.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has scored itself a prince. Prince Harry will appear on the CBS latenight show on Tuesday Jan. 10 to promote his memoir Spare. It marks the prince’s first time visiting the show and second latenight appearance, having previously appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden.