What about it? CBS owns it they will probably sell it when his show ends.
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For Late Night’s Trump Critics, the Escape Routes Are Vanishing
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who'd be interested?
It’s a broadway theater so…. Who ever wants to do a broadway play.
would a streamer be interested in a broadway theater for Colbert?
What ever Colbert does next will not be a big production like he has now. It will be scaled way down.
Yep - look at how Conan works these days...it'll be something similar to that level of production.
Again, it's not 1953 anymore.
I can see Colbert doing what Conan does. Maybe add a few traveling shows a year. Nothing with a huge studio audience anymore.
O'Brien does draw an audience to his podcast, albeit a small fraction of what Rogan draws. Letterman doesn't register in the Top 200 Podcasts that I can find. Point being is based on the data available, success of a deposed late night host is a risky prospect.
Most of Letterman’s content is old clips from his shows. Conan has a loyal following. Their shows were more generational vs new viewers.
Really unlikely. The economics of syndication are really, really bad nowadays. New shows in syndication struggle to get ratings, which means that the budgets are shrinking and it's also a struggle to get decent time periods. Given a choice between adding another hour of local news for a low incremental cost or running a syndicated show that probably won't break a 1.0 share, strong stations are increasingly choosing the local news option. So a syndicated show would likely end up on marginal stations or in marginal time slots. Or it just wouldn't be cleared.
Aside from that, there's the political environment. Anyone think that Nexstar and Sinclair stations would be interested in carrying a syndicated show starring Colbert? Not a chance. And my suspicion is that other broadcast groups would be wary, since no one likes to get on the wrong side of the head of the FCC.
So I think that syndication would be non-viable due to both financial and political considerations. Either would be enough to sink such a show, and the combination of both just moves it into the "no way" category.
So my guess is streaming of some sort. And probably with a much smaller crew, a smaller venue, and a smaller budget.
Apparently Stephen Colbert will be writing the next Lord of the Rings movie:
www.yahoo.com
Stephen Colbert’s Next Chapter Could Shock Longtime ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fans
Warner Bros. chose Tolkien Reading Day — March 25 — to reveal what may be the most unexpected creative pairing in the history of Middle-earth on screen: Stephen Colbert is writing the next Lord of the...
Imagine you're a real screenwriter losing work to this nonsense.Apparently Stephen Colbert will be writing the next Lord of the Rings movie:
Stephen Colbert’s Next Chapter Could Shock Longtime ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fans
Warner Bros. chose Tolkien Reading Day — March 25 — to reveal what may be the most unexpected creative pairing in the history of Middle-earth on screen: Stephen Colbert is writing the next Lord of the...
Imagine you're a real screenwriter who has to subordinate your work to a hack.
Colbert has no business doing this.
There's no such thing as a "real screenwriter." You or I could submit an idea. If it gets accepted, you're the screenwriter.
You don't even have to be in the writer's guild to be a screenwriter. Although Colbert is a member, and is credited as a writer on his show.
Then I guess there's no such thing as a real radio programmer, a real radio host or the like.
Colbert knows not the first thing about screenwriting. His name may generate buzz for two seconds and he'll put his name on the work of others. I don't care, but it makes him a hypocrite.
You're entitled to your opinions, which you've expressed vehemently.
You're not entitled to your own facts.
A quick check of IMDB shows Colbert with at least 37 writing credits, going back to work as early as 1996 on the Dana Carvey Show, considerable later work on Strangers With Candy and SNL, the Daily Show, multiple Emmy Awards ceremonies and his own specials.
You might also look at his awards shelf, including Emmys and WGA awards going back as far as 2004, when he was writing for the Daily Show and was hardly a huge star or household name.
If you want to make the case that none of those represent substantive work of his own, that's a claim that would require quite a bit of substantiation beyond your evident disdain for the man and his work.
We live in a country where anyone can be a programmer or a host just by doing it.
There are no exams to pass, no certifications to acquire, and in right to work states, you don't have to join a union.
There are such things to be a doctor or lawyer. Some trades require expertise. But AFAIK, radio programming or hosting doesn't.
Some might even consider that he's returning to his first love...and maybe stepping out on a bit of a limb to do so.
People expanding their horizons in front of our eyes. Good for him; wish him the best in his new endeavor.