{"id":169865,"date":"2022-12-27T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/as-late-night-prepares-for-major-overhaul-2023-predictions-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:09:14","slug":"as-late-night-prepares-for-major-overhaul-2023-predictions-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/as-late-night-prepares-for-major-overhaul-2023-predictions-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"As Late-Night Prepares For Major Overhaul, 2023 Predictions \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tLate-night television is going through a moment.<\/p>\n

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\tFor 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.<\/p>\n

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\tIn 2022, James Corden, as revealed by Deadline, announced he was leaving The Late Late Show<\/em>Trevor Noah stepped down from The Daily Show<\/em>Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal<\/em> was canceled by David Zaslav’s cost-cutting Warner Bros. discovery regime, Desus & Mero<\/em> fell out and broke up, leaving their rising Showtime series.<\/p>\n

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\tThe big three remained unchanged \u2013 Jimmy Kimmel signed a new contract to continue hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!,<\/em> after deliberating about leaving the nightly slog, Jimmy Fallon is a year into a new deal hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show<\/em> and Stephen Colbert continues comfortably at the top hosting CBS’ The Late Show with few expecting him to leave any time soon.<\/p>\n

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\tdespite Full Frontal’s<\/em> cancellation, late-night is more diverse than it used to be with the likes of Amber Ruffin getting buzz for her Peacock show \u2013 and a co-sign from Colbert \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

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\tAs CBS and Comedy Central prepare to fill their empty chairs, and the Emmys changed its rules meaning that John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight <\/em>won’t win an eighth consecutive late-night Emmy (instead competing against Saturday Night Live<\/em> in a revamped variety category), there will be plenty of changes coming over the next twelve months.<\/p>\n

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\tBut 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 in to these shows live and the media environment is creaking at the seams, and streaming still hasn’t cracked the night talker.<\/p>\n

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\tBelow, we’re offering five more predictions, some based on reporting and some based on feelings, on what the late-night world will look like in 2023.<\/p>\n

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\tJames Corden is leaving the CBS show after eight and a half years, news broken by Deadline in April. His departure has opened the door for the network to shake up the way that it operates its 12:30 am show. The economics of late-night television have fundamentally shifted since Brit took over in 2015 and Deadline understands that the network is looking to greatly reduce the budget of the show. The show currently costs just north of $60M a year to produce and we hear that CBS is looking to bring this down to the $35M a year range.<\/p>\n

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\tThis will fundamentally affect how it approaches what the new show will look like and who will take over. CBS CEO and President George Cheeks told Deadline in May that it would experiment with the right \u201creplacement format\u201d. NBC’s own experiment with YouTube star Lilly Singh in its 1:30am slot didn’t quite work so it’s unlikely that the network will just throw a TikTok star you’ve never heard of behind the desk, but don’t be surprised if the next iteration of The Late Late Show<\/em> looks very different to Corden’s run. You’d also be wise to bet that the new gig doesn’t go to another straight white male.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeth Meyers To Be Crowned New SNL Boss, NBC Closes 12:30am Slot <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\tSeth Meyers, who was at Saturday Night Live<\/em> between 2001 and 2014, has spent the last few months mocking the rumors that he will take over the venerable NBC show when (if?) Lorne Michaels ever steps down.<\/p>\n

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\tEarlier this month, he orchestrated a funny Zoom video with his SNL<\/em> friends Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph about who they thought should take over. In March, he said that he feels \u201ctoo old\u201d to return to SNL and in October, he told another former SNL<\/em>-er, Leslie Jones, he said that \u201cnobody can take over for Lorne. If you don’t think with the money Lorne Michaels has made, he’s not getting some special blood transfusion done one day\u201d.<\/p>\n

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