Yes, I know. Also notable that the announcer for the show was Shadoe Stevens, who hosted American Top 40 after Casey Kasem ended his initial run as host. Also, a good amount of the interactions between Craig and Geoff (Josh Robert Thompson) were improvised, like the bit that Michael Hagerty posted above.
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Byron Allen gets the Colbert timeslot
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Yes, I know. Also notable that the announcer for the show was Shadoe Stevens, who hosted American Top 40 after Casey Kasem ended his initial run as host. Also, a good amount of the interactions between Craig and Geoff (Josh Robert Thompson) were improvised, like the bit that Michael Hagerty posted above.
Speaking of Craig Ferguson, he has a new documentary airing this weekend on CNN:
deadline.com
CNN & Craig Ferguson Hit The Road For USA250 With ‘American On Purpose’ Series
In the grand tradition of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, Craig Ferguson is going on a grand tour of America for CNN and the nation's 250th birthday.
deadline.com
The character was introduced on “The Good Wife” years ago—-she appeared in 14 episodes between 2010 and 2016—and in five episodes of the spinoff “The Good Fight” between 2016 and 2022.
I always enjoyed her, never thought you could build a show around her, but they have and—-apart from a tendency to get maybe a little too silly two or three episodes a year, “Elsbeth” is a great show—-an homage to “Columbo” in that we get to see the murder and who did it, and then watch Elsbeth appear to bumble her way into catching them.
And what the hell—-let’s throw in one more:
One of my favorites.
But hey...I'm sure Byron Allen's show is...just as entertaining?
Or…not
Has anyone seen last week's ratings for Comics Unleashed?
'Comics Unleashed' Craters CBS Ratings After Stephen Colbert Exit
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale put CBS atop the late-night ratings charts. His replacement’s premiere plummeted them to the bottom. When Colbert, 62, left CBS on Thursday, so too did all of hi...
'Comics Unleashed' 11:35 Debut Draws 995K Viewers, -85% From Colbert Finale
First on LateNighter: 'Comics Unleashed' drew 995,000 viewers in its CBS 11:35 p.m. debut Friday, down 85% from Colbert’s finale and behind Fallon and Kimmel at the national level.
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Stephen Colbert's MAGA-coded replacement flops in debut: report
Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million...
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But those were just first night ratings, and I'm sure some of even those viewers were either curiosity driven or thought Colbert was still on and didn't change the channel. I wonder what the week of 5/25-5/29 was like?
'Comics Unleashed' Craters CBS Ratings After Stephen Colbert Exit
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale put CBS atop the late-night ratings charts. His replacement’s premiere plummeted them to the bottom. When Colbert, 62, left CBS on Thursday, so too did all of hi...www.yahoo.com
'Comics Unleashed' 11:35 Debut Draws 995K Viewers, -85% From Colbert Finale
First on LateNighter: 'Comics Unleashed' drew 995,000 viewers in its CBS 11:35 p.m. debut Friday, down 85% from Colbert’s finale and behind Fallon and Kimmel at the national level.
Stephen Colbert's MAGA-coded replacement flops in debut: report
Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million...
'Comics Unleashed' Craters CBS Ratings After Stephen Colbert Exit
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale put CBS atop the late-night ratings charts. His replacement’s premiere plummeted them to the bottom. When Colbert, 62, left CBS on Thursday, so too did all of hi...
'Comics Unleashed' 11:35 Debut Draws 995K Viewers, -85% From Colbert Finale
First on LateNighter: 'Comics Unleashed' drew 995,000 viewers in its CBS 11:35 p.m. debut Friday, down 85% from Colbert’s finale and behind Fallon and Kimmel at the national level.
Stephen Colbert's MAGA-coded replacement flops in debut: report
Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million...
It might take time for them to build an audience. I took a look at it the other night, and it was refreshing to watch something at least moderately funny, kind of low-key, and not politically charged. Nice way to end the day.
Agreed. It'll likely find it's niche. If it can sustain 1M+ viewers, it'll be meeting expectations, I think. It's unlikely to pull in what the predecessor programming in that slot did, but comes at a far lower production cost.
I’m more likely to become People’s “sexiest man alive” than that show is to sustain a million viewers. Direct comparisons to an understandably and unusually inflated finale day/week/month for Colbert aren’t good baselines at all, but there is no reason to believe it’s going to draw a million people on average.
Even at less than that, CBS will still get positive bash flow from it, and not be losing $40M a year.
Yeah, I’ll take their word that it was totally not a made up thing that just happened to coincide with a major deal approval. No connection there at all.
That aside, they most certainly will continue to get positive bash flow—the bashing ain’t ending anytime soon.
A wild card here is Trump. What if he starts plugging this show on Truth as a non-woke alternative to Colbert and Kimmel? Yeah, I know Allen and Colbert are supposedly friends, but this could happen if Allen's comedy stays uncontroversial.
He generally seems far more interested in bashing enemies than plugging anything that doesn’t line his pockets.
The alternative would be to actually find something to contradict that. Something factual.
These are kind of unfair. A better comparison would be to Colbert's normal numbers.'Comics Unleashed' Craters CBS Ratings After Stephen Colbert Exit
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale put CBS atop the late-night ratings charts. His replacement’s premiere plummeted them to the bottom. When Colbert, 62, left CBS on Thursday, so too did all of hi...
'Comics Unleashed' 11:35 Debut Draws 995K Viewers, -85% From Colbert Finale
First on LateNighter: 'Comics Unleashed' drew 995,000 viewers in its CBS 11:35 p.m. debut Friday, down 85% from Colbert’s finale and behind Fallon and Kimmel at the national level.
Stephen Colbert's MAGA-coded replacement flops in debut: report
Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million...
I've posted his "normal" numbers earlier in this thread, and they average around 2.5 million, vs 995K for Comics.
I haven't seen any recent numbers, so we don't yet know if Comics has improved.