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Late Show ending May 2026

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Don CT said:
WB needs a tent pole. They are not the discovery networks. I’d imagine CBS goes in a fire sale for cheap. SkyDance doesn’t want it.
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That's like selling a horse-and-buggy dealership and buying an old, dying mule headed for the glue factory. Meanwhile everyone else is cruising around in their Model Ts.
 
Nathan Obral said:
That's like selling a horse-and-buggy dealership and buying an old, dying mule headed for the gkue factory. Meanwhile everyone else is cruising around in their Model Ts.
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Im saying if CBS gets spun off WBD is the best option. Will it happen probably not.

CBS still have a lot of value in the sports rights that they have long term. Those won’t just go away.
 
Don CT said:
CBS still have a lot of value in the sports rights that they have long term. Those won’t just go away.
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They're also on Paramount+ along with everything else. And deals can always be restructured to remove OTA.

CBS becoming little more than a glorified sports programming service is pretty much the same fate Dumont had 70 years ago.
 
MMVRBfan9 said:
Indeed, there's always what's old is new again--or what goes around, comes back around. Either the CBS Late Movie or what would appeal to me, 'Crimetime After Primetime'. Go with the tried-and-true.
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Once again...it's not 1985 anymore. Night Heat is NEVER coming back to CBS. Sorry.
I said it earlier - expect 3/4ths of the affiliates to air news from 11PM-12AM (10-11PM CT/MT), then syndicated shows, infomercials, or a mix of both.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Will NBC'S late night shows end with Lorne Michaels?
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Depends on Lorne. He's gone past the SNL 50th anniversary, which was the line where a lot of people thought he'd call it a career. Does he stay another year, five, ten?

For now, SNL is profitable, and some analysts have said when Lorne goes, the show will be cheaper to produce and more profitable not just by the lack of his compensation, but by cuts that the network will make that they just don't want to fight with Lorne about now.

Also, SNL is responsible, according to Comcast, for $50 million in subscriber revenue for Peacock (it's apparently the leading show in terms of driving subscriptions).

The Tonight Show probably doesn't last beyond Lorne. Late-night revenues are declining and CBS is taking itself out of the game. Kimmel makes noises about retiring every year and ABC doesn't appear to be working on a succession plan.

And I think Late Night with Seth Meyers either moves to Peacock or gets cancelled sometime in the next two years. He's already had to cut the 8G Band, and ad revenues at 12:35 are way worse than at 11:35.
 
michael hagerty said:
Depends on Lorne. He's gone past the SNL 50th anniversary, which was the line where a lot of people thought he'd call it a career. Does he stay another year, five, ten?

For now, SNL is profitable, and some analysts have said when Lorne goes, the show will be cheaper to produce and more profitable not just by the lack of his compensation, but by cuts that the network will make that they just don't want to fight with Lorne about now.

Also, SNL is responsible, according to Comcast, for $50 million in subscriber revenue for Peacock (it's apparently the leading show in terms of driving subscriptions).

The Tonight Show probably doesn't last beyond Lorne. Late-night revenues are declining and CBS is taking itself out of the game. Kimmel makes noises about retiring every year and ABC doesn't appear to be working on a succession plan.

And I think Late Night with Seth Meyers either moves to Peacock or gets cancelled sometime in the next two years. He's already had to cut the 8G Band, and ad revenues at 12:35 are way worse than at 11:35.
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JF has also cut shows to 4 a week, down from 5
 
crainbebo said:
Once again...it's not 1985 anymore. Night Heat is NEVER coming back to CBS. Sorry.
I said it earlier - expect 3/4ths of the affiliates to air news from 11PM-12AM (10-11PM CT/MT), then syndicated shows, infomercials, or a mix of both.
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I was thinking more like Forever Knight myself. When it comes to this country in particular as it keeps being beat more than in Biden's words 'Medicare' or other pieces of dead horses politically and otherwise that others continue to gripe here incessantly with the overtones, history has always had the way of repeating itself and in many cases--several times. Besides, since OTA/linear is dying like people keep chanting, then programming from 1985 or whatever would be a cheap and economically viable choice, similar to the highly repetitive programs from those diginets offered. Whatever the Columbia Broadcasting System decides--it's their prerogative.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
If you think profitability was the actual motive behind this, boy do I have a bridge you’ll want to buy before anyone else gets their hands on it.
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Far too often Shari Redstone skirts by and is not called out for the damage she did to Paramount Global and CBS over the past few years. She was awful at her job and has show no limits for desperation at ridding herself of these properties. I honestly blame her more than anything here.

It still doesn’t change my view that this was likely to happen anyway. It just happened at the worst possible time.
 
crainbebo said:
I said it earlier - expect 3/4ths of the affiliates to air news from 11PM-12AM (10-11PM CT/MT), then syndicated shows, infomercials, or a mix of both.
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Or what's left of the network may offer selected reruns of prime-time shows as an option for affiliates.
 
There are some Crimetime shows that have never been released on DVD. Fly By Night never got a release (aired in 1991, starred David James Elliott years before JAG). I don't think Dark Justice got a DVD release either. Silk Stalkings, of course, because it had a following and got decent ratings when it moved to USA. And for broadcast TV, it was about as erotic as you could get.
Didn't Silk Stalkings (or Sweating Bullets) beat Carson in some markets?

I've got a complete episode of Fly by Night recorded from KIMA Yakima with commercials...but the taper made a boo-boo and it came out in black & white. Not signal-related.
 
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