Prince Harry is popular with the late night audience. The Duke of Sussex’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert scored the largest weeknight audience for the show in more than two years.
27.12.2022 - 18:31 / deadline.com
Late-night television is going through a moment.
For the first time in eight years, there’s a significant change behind the desks coming in 2023 as the industry wraps its head around the future of nightly, and weekly, talk shows.
In 2022, James Corden, as revealed by Deadline, announced he was leaving The Late Late Show, Trevor Noah stepped down from The Daily Show, Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal was canceled by David Zaslav’s cost-cutting Warner Bros. Discovery regime, Desus & Mero fell out and broke up, leaving their rising Showtime series.
The big three remained unchanged – Jimmy Kimmel signed a new contract to continue hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, after deliberating about leaving the nightly slog, Jimmy Fallon is a year into a new deal hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show and Stephen Colbert continues comfortably at the top hosting CBS’ The Late Show with few expecting him to leave any time soon.
Despite Full Frontal’s cancelation, late-night is more diverse than it used to be with the likes of Amber Ruffin getting buzz for her Peacock show – and a co-sign from Colbert – and Ziwe, Charlamagne Tha God and Sam Jay all hosting weekly shows. The hope is that any contraction in late-night doesn’t affect this drive.
As CBS and Comedy Central prepare to fill their empty chairs, and the Emmys changed its rules meaning that John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight won’t win an eighth consecutive late-night Emmy (instead competing against Saturday Night Live in a revamped variety category), there will be plenty of changes coming over the next twelve months.
But is this just the tip of the iceberg? Late-night is a trickier business than it used to be, the economics are more challenging, particularly as fewer and fewer people are tuning
Prince Harry is popular with the late night audience. The Duke of Sussex’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert scored the largest weeknight audience for the show in more than two years.
Babylon, the pink halter-neck gown was all Barbie. The shimmery, baby-pink dress includes a jeweled brooch at the throat, an optical-illusion vee pattern, and a mermaid shape ending in a combined ruffle-and-feather fringe skirt. According to her short pre-show interview with Loni Love, , and her look lets the dress do most of the talking. She paired the gown with loose waves and natural makeup, and the only jewelry I can see is her diamond engagement ring. I wouldn't necessarily call the look #Barbiecore, just because the color of the dress is so soft.
Enjoying his night out. Prince Harry waved to fans after filming an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert pegged to the release of his Spare memoir.
about Prince Harry's Spare, think again. The Duke of Sussex's interview with Anderson Cooper ; while in the UK, ITV will air his sit down with Tom Bradby.
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