They fire Colbert for Jon Stewart? You can’t be serious. And Conan is not coming back to late nite TV.
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Byron Allen gets the Colbert timeslot
- Thread starter michael hagerty
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No, it was respectful. We just had better options for programming and were aggressively pursuing (and securing) A-list syndication (Frasier, Seinfeld, etc.).
Stations can’t just add inventory like that, and if the inventory exists, but is unsold, there’s probably a reason they’re having trouble selling it. The days of advertisers clamoring for spot buys are over at the local level.
Plus, so they have plenty of time to promote the new shows starting in the fall over the summer.That's not how networks work. They will announce their fall schedule next month during the upfronts. They can't wait until the fall to announce fall programming, because they need to have the advertising set before the season begins. Especially if it's a completely new show. For example, the Letterman announcement that he was leaving NBC for CBS happened in January of 1993, and the show debuted at the end of August.
David Letterman going to CBS - UPI Archives
David Letterman has accepted a multimillion-dollar deal to move his late night talk show to CBS in August after his contract with NBC runs out, CBS announced...www.upi.com
And T.J. Hooker-- that Shatner cop show was pretty good in its slot of originals on CBS Late Night, and I'd love to have reruns again.
You and anyone else can get the DVDs and watch them all day and night.
Shatner?
Well, holy crap! I watched that show every week and never realized there were guys on it.
I mentioned the CBS upfronts taking place in May. I missed the fact that CBS has announced it will reveal its fall schedule on April 15:
www.yahoo.com
So look for this next week.
CBS Moves Up 2026-27 Schedule Reveal To April 15 As Network Continues To Bypass Traditional Cycle; Most Pickups & Cancellations Expected By Then
EXCLUSIVE: CBS continues to put a distance between the May upfront week and its own fall schedule reveal and upfront events. The network, in its first year following Skydance’s acquisition of parent P...
So look for this next week.
True-- was thinking that not everyone has a DVD player; silly me.
it was made up young people with attachment to either party, Arsenio wanted George HW Bush on his show but he turned down the invite
it went away with the introduction of VCRs, but TIVO was more user friendly than VCRs people couldn't set the clock on
Well, in the same ball park CBS replaced "The Talk" with an old-school soap opera "Beyond the Gates" just last year.
Personally, I kind of thought that would have been a good replacement for Colbert... you could have had NCIS reruns one night, NCIS New Orleans reruns one night, NCIS Los Angeles reruns one night, the new Magnum P.I. or Hawaii Five-O reruns one night, Big Bang Theory or The Neighborhood reruns one night...CBS went back to the late night mix of movies and reruns as they had done pre-Sajak.
The Pat Sajak Show - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Would have been a fun way for CBS to return to a retro late night idea...
All of those shows air in syndication 24/7.
Credit where it's due, Forever Knight was a legitimately good show that should had been in primetime instead of late night; it was certainly better than quite a few duds that CBS did grant the primetime greenlight to at the time.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Don, your one sentence reply, all by itself, explains why these dreamer ideas have no traction. Everything is on one of the diginets or what's left of cable, and the audience doesn't have to wait until after the late news to see them.
And there's also this nifty invention called a DVR which means you don't even have to be watching at the exact time something airs.
Honestly, this crowd just has no clue about how the television business has changed over the past few decades.