Don’t forget, tonight at 11:35 it is the 1000th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (on City-TV and ABC). Kimmel’s girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, and her lover, Matt Damon, were nice enough to take this ad out in Variety just to congratulate him. No ad yet from Ben Affleck. Kimmel has really beat the odds lasting five
Nobody has a better handle on the late night scene than Bill Carter at The New York Times. The author of The Late Shift and, more recently, Desperate Networks, Carter’s connections with industry power players runs deep, even after he’s spilled the beans so many times in the past. I know from personal experience that
How have Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert been killing time on their late night shows without their armies of writers? By morphing into the Three Stooges. Take a look at the silliest–and funniest–showbiz feud since Jack Benny met Fred Allen: Too bad Chuck Norris couldn’t have joined in the fun, although, this strike
Great article by Bill Carter in The New York Times on indomitable Jay Leno. As Carter points out, the late show host critics love to dismiss is as dominant as ever in the ratings a month after he and David Letterman returned to the air–Letterman with his writers, Leno without. How has he done it?
More evidence that The Tonight Show is having a hard time booking guests during this writers strike: last night’s opening guests were a Priest, a Rabbi and a Minister. Good thing Jimmy Kimmel was Jay Leno‘s next guest. The Jay/Jimmy love-in last night wasn’t the vent-a-palooza I was hoping for last night but it was
Nikki Finke, who has been all over the strike story at her dishy blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, was first to post the Nielsen overnights from Wednesdays talk show returns. They show U.S. audiences did flock back to late night leader Jay Leno first to see how he would fare without his writers: Says Finke, “early
UPDATED: See comments about Jimmy Kimmel, below. After all the fuss about the return to the late shift last night, I have to admit the whole deal was pretty anti climactic for me last night. When David Letterman’s ratty beard gets all the hype and attention the next day, you start to wonder exactly what
There’s only one topic tonight: the long-awaited return of the late night talk shows. Everybody wants to blab about it, including my old pal Scott Thompson at Hamilton’s Talk Radio station CHML. Mr TV Feeds My Family morphed into Mr. Radio Feeds My Family today as CBC radio stations from across Canada checked in, including