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NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert is laying claim to the $120 million in severance that CBS’ board of directors said wouldn’t be paid to ousted former CEO Leslie Moonves […]

Fans of “The Daily Show” got to see Trevor Noah host Tuesday night’s Comedy Central broadcast. But they didn’t get to hear him. The reason: Noah has lost his voice […]

A think tank that has studied the content of latenight comedy for the past 26 years said Donald Trump was the butt of more jokes in 2017 than any other public figure has for a single year. By a lot.

Latenight programming remains a tussle between NBC and CBS — with the former maintaining a slight edge in young viewers and CBS dominating the overall viewing picture.

The writing staffs at latenight shows are working hard to spin off themed content into a dizzying array of new platforms. In this era of content-hungry audiences, even a small helping of late-night antics have value. “We need to have content viewed everywhere, because the viewing habits of television have changed and it’s no longer just about your nightly time slot anymore,” says Katie Hockmeyer, a producer at NBC’s Tonight.

PBS President Paula Kerger told journalists Tuesday at the annual TV critics’ winter press tour that the network has tightened its policies for preventing and reporting sexual harassment. In addition, PBS announced a five-part series starting Feb. 2 that will consider changes that need to be made in every American workplace. Meanwhile, Kerger said, PBS will take a long look at possible programs to fill the time slots previously held by Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley. No deadline has been set for a decision, she said, but options include retaining Christiane Amanpour.

Watch, Facebook’s high-stakes bid to build a powerhouse video hub online, will debut short-form clips from CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday afternoon and Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday. But it will not be producing original content for the platform.

With nearly three months of the TV season now in the books, latenight TV network programming still has CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the overall top position. The CBS talk show is now averaging 3.7 million viewers for Nielsen live program plus same day/seven day time shifted viewing though Dec. 15. NBC’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon is at 2.7 million viewers. Fallon still leads among 18-49 viewers.

Saturday Night Live, hosted by James Franco in his fourth time on the show and featuring musical guest SZA, drew a 4.5 household live+same day rating in the metered markets and a 2.1 in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters. That was up from the 4.3 in HH and 1.7 in 18-49 for the previous week’s telecast hosted by Saoirse Ronan. The 4.5 in households was the best SNL delivery since Nov. 4.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s 7-month-old son, whose heart condition has made the late-night host an unlikely player in American politics, had a successful second round of surgery on […]

The latest ratings show that viewers are tuning out NBC’s fun-and-games approach and flocking to the politically engaged Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.

Conan has the trappings of a traditional latenight show, but Conan O’Brien may be taking more artistic risks than anyone else in that time slot.

In 1954 when Tonight premiered on NBC there was no VCR or DVR, no curated assortment of online clips to watch over coffee the next day. Cut to 2017, and the landscape has changed drastically. The hours on either side of midnight are no longer where the magic happens — for the viewers or the hosts. These days, the real win isn’t keeping folks pinned to their sofas. Just the opposite: It’s disseminating “greatest hits” moments to them far and wide — to be consumed in offices, on public transportation, via Facebook — long after the credits have rolled.

In the space of six weeks, this seemingly apolitical 49-year-old comedian, who, since his show debuted in 2003, has done exceptionally well by coming across as latenight’s unexceptional guy, had transformed himself into a riveting teller of truths — with the ratings bump to match. “I never wanted to come on too strong politically,” Kimmel says. “I never wanted to preach to the choir.” Yet here he is, talking about not just his politicization and whether the Trump era has changed latenight TV forever but other, crucial things.

Jimmy Kimmel — mouthy, mean, and quick to cry — is the perfect foil for Donald Trump. But how long can he play the hero?

Criticized for earlier overlooking the scandal, Saturday Night Live addressed it this weekend, with varying degrees of comfort and effectiveness.

Hosts of the latenight talk shows broke their silence on the allegations of sexual harassment against the Hollywood producer.

Latenight hosts dedicated a portion of their Monday night shows to speak out about gun violence in the wake of the tragic events that unfolded in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Jimmy Kimmel choked up in an emotional response to the deadly attack, while Seth Meyers had a pointed message for Congress.

The presidency of Donald J. Trump and his penchant for using his personal Twitter account has led to a political climate where a 24-hour news cycle is often whittled down to a scant six hours or so. For most of the Emmy-nominated variety talk series that means having to be ready to write a new joke or rip up and rewrite an entire monologue at a moment’s notice.