"They sucked because all of these shows echoed each other and were completely predictable," Concha said. "You can't go from an honest Stewart who truly connected with Americans and their distaste in the government to someone who was merely reading DNC talking points. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump. According to live-plus-same-day data from Nielsen, The Five averaged the most total viewers of any cable news show during the opening quarter of 2022, marking Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. After Trump got elected, however, you could bounce around from monologue to monologue and hear the exact same jokes.. #403 of 1,014 on. And while stalwarts of the industry like David Letterman and Jay Leno have now retired from the late night scene, there's a new crop of hosts who are bringing their own unique spins to their respective shows. In the most recent months, Noah has failed to reach a 400,000 average. That same week, the show had its most-watched week to-date, with almost 2.2 million viewers outpacing even Colberts show on two days out of that 7-day period. While heads of state have been regularly ridiculed by these types of programs since the 1960s, no one has received the same amount of attention as the former president. He lives in small town, Ohio, where he likes to watch rasslin' and movies. Kimmel, another vocal Trump critic, made national headlines during the Trump years for his monologues advocating for health care reform after his newborn son underwent heart surgery, as well as for stricter gun control laws. While he's still an outspoken liberal who mercilessly mocks Trump and other prominent Republicans, Maher frequently lambasts the "woke" progressives in elected office, often taking swipes at the Democratic "Squad" and its leader Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., something other late-night comedians wouldn't dare to do. has edged out the CBS rival with 2.2-2.4 million viewers as of late. Replacing a legend like Jon Stewart in 2015 was a formidable task, especially when Noah was not well known to American audiences. That's My Time With David Letterman. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn. Executives have discussed a wide range of possibilities for Mr. Meyerss show, including moving it to another time slot, reducing the number of people on its staff and shifting it to the Peacock streaming service or to MSNBC, two of the people said. Still, he hasn't quite cracked the top five in the minds' of IMDb reviewers. on Facebook, Share Why have late-night talk show ratings collapsed? return-to-office push, Gutfeld used the first few seconds of his show to kill two birds with one stone: He joked about the new studio and his audiences return, while also taking another jab at CNNs Wallace. "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah announces he's leaving the long-running Comedy Central program after seven years. Supposedly, the people writing late-night shows got frustrated because Trump-related news was often so surreal that it was difficult to satirize. As you read through the numbers below, keep this number in mind: 6.3 million. "I don't perform for just one half of the country and say things that will make them applaud. While Fallon seemed regretful for turning off his liberal fans, the other late-night Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel, has little to no regret losing conservative viewers. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld joined 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss the success of 'Gutfeld!' Week 7: February 6-12, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year Broadcast Late Night: Current [], Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. Meyers has signed on to host through 2021, so it'll be interesting to see if he adds any new elements to get people talking. Here is how all the late night acts rate, according to IMDb users. ), the former The Daily Show correspondent premiered to a lot of attention on TBS in 2015. For the first time ever in July of this year, streaming viewership surpassed that of cable, Nielsen reported, and in 2021, 4.7 million people got rid of their cable or satellite subscription, representing 5.8% of the customer base, according to a study from Leichtman Research Group. Gutfeld! Is Now The Most-Watched Late-Night Show On TV Gutfeld!, the angriest late-night show on TV, is also the most popular. The Wrap reports that Tuesdays episode of host Greg Gutfelds punishingly unfunny comedy program beat every other late-night show in total viewership and the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. Others link the downfall of late-night shows to the rise of Donald Trump. More moves could be afoot. In a Facebook post, Rebecca Drysdale, the former head writer of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, explained that, The project of doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears, and pain. I cover the news media industry, including print, digital, and cable. Even though her show has been renewed for a second season and review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes give it a decent rating, IMDb's abysmal rating suggests that many believe the show to be, well, terrible. Audiences, too, have been flocking from the show, particularly since Trump left office. Last year, Conan OBrien ended his 28-year late-night run, the last 11 of which were on cable network TBS. Noah has been hosting since 2015, and while he has kept the show on the public's radar, he'll need to find a way to get it back to the level it was when Stewart was at the helm. Each episode has the usual covering of whatever happened in the news last week, but the meatiest part is the main segment where for twenty minutes or more, Oliver focuses on one subject. RELATED: 15 Best Talk Show Hosts From US & UK. The Brit brought his flavor of comedy to American shores in 2015, replacing long-time host Craig Ferguson. The late night talk show world is alive and kicking. His comedic punches dont have the pop that other hosts have when he doesnt have a captivating audience in front of him. All rights reserved. Liberals or redistributed. Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Fallon is a terrific performer, which is what made him so popular on Saturday Night Live, but theres no bite to his comedy. Is There a Future for Late-Night Talk Shows? He plans to return to stand-up comedy once he ends his time on The Daily Show. Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. "Their content is not only hyper-political, but insulting to people's intelligence. We get it. The costs of the shows were relatively low, and the number of programming hours they offered, as well as the profits they kicked off, was enormous. It's been one of my greatest challenges, it's been one of my greatest joys. All of them were canceled, and Netflix executives have moved on from the format. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America, East). Skewing this, though, is how IMDb users are known for review-bombing something they really hate, and Lilly Singh's show could be a victim of this. So when the numbers start to slip a little bit, they're gone," Piscopo said. Indeed, ratings for the late-night shows have been falling so much that the political comedy show Gutfeld! on Fox News at 11 p.m. frequently draws more viewers than any of the longstanding network late-night franchises. Get counterintuitive, surprising, and impactful stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Was he the catalyst for change or was it all coincidence? We have seen the arrival of many fresh faces, turning the late-night wars into a fractured battle waged on many fronts, from TV ratings to YouTube views. GAFFE. Alec Baldwin made regular appearances on "Saturday Night Live" playing President Donald Trump through his term in office. TBS canceled "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," as the far-left host lost a whopping 79% from her 2017 audience average of 1.25 million viewers to 268,000 viewers. Mr. Noah said he wanted to carry on exploring another part of his life. Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. Jon Stewart has a show on Apple TV+, which struggled to garner much attention during its first season. It was rumored that Jimmy Kimmel would depart Live!, but last week he extended his contract with ABC for three years. By Mediaite Feb 2nd, 2022, 4:57 pm. Just this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat alongside Colbert to receive his COVID booster shot on TV and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made at least her fourth "Late Show" appearance, this time to promote the Democratic agenda ahead of the midterms. The Democratic bench is thinner than Chris Wallaces demo reel from CNN+, Gutfeld quipped at one point during that broadcast, in typical Gutfeldian fashion. ", "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah announces he's leaving the long-running Comedy Central program after seven years. I could write jokes for 800 years and Id never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big comeback presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping, says one writer. Schneider later added, "You can take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the late-night hosts, and you could exchange them with each other. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Meyers interviewing skills, while not having reached the greatness of a Colbert, creates interesting conversations with every guest, whether it be movie stars or world leaders. Week 9: February 20-26, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year Broadcast Late Night: Current [], Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. Week 3: January 9-15, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year Broadcast Late Night: Current [], Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. In the 2018-2019 season, Colbert actually managed to overtake The Tonight show in ratings in the key viewership demographic for the first time since the mid '90s. Week 6: January 30- February 5, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year Broadcast Late [], Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. But as streaming has ascended, and network TV audiences and advertising revenue has dwindled, worries that late-night shows could be the latest genre affected by sweeping change are hitting virtually every corner of the entertainment world. NBCUniversal executives, as part of their discussions about the 10 p.m. hour, are also weighing the future of the networks 12:30 a.m. show, Late Night With Seth Meyers, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions, who were not authorized to speak about them publicly. Through the first six months of 2021, the four late-night shows on network television took in a total of $301 million in advertising revenue, according to Kantar. Yet, "Real Time" has not been nominated for Outstanding Variety Talk Series since 2017 after having earned 12 nominations over 13 years, while its more politically correct competitors earn slots in the category year after year. That year, The Daily Show averaged 1.1 million viewers, lagging somewhat behind broadcast shows like NBCs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (3.78 Last year, Fallons Tonight Show was renewed for five years, though the Wall Street Journal reports NBC has considered eliminating the networks 10 p.m. hour of primetime and moving Fallon up from his current 11:35 p.m. start time. Trevor Noahs announcement that he is leaving The Daily Show is only one of many reasons that TV executives are pondering the future of late-night talk shows. My show is deliberately surreal and absurd, because Im absurd. As successor to Craig Ferguson and on super-late on CBS, Corden has been delighting insomniac and night owl audiences since 2014. On air on NBC since 2014, Meyers has the coveted time slot right after The Tonight Show, which helped him build an initial audience. Maybe in 2015, you could say that Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, and Stephen Colberts shows had their own unique identity, writes Anupras Mohapatra in the Daily Cardinal. Gutfeld! marked its one-year anniversary earlier this month, on April 5. Like the way CNN is all but guaranteed to remain a favorite punching bag for Fox News Channels late-night host Greg Gutfeld, whose 11 pm show Gutfeld! has I go where it's funny. (Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images). Thats how you know its not interesting anymore. Singh rose to fame as a YouTube personality and became so popular that NBC offered her a late night talk show of her own to replace Carson Daly, making her (as of now) the only female late night talk show host and the first of Indian and South Asian descent. You may opt-out by. The Gutfeld show became successful, because it came at exactly the right time. he said. I came to be entertained.. The Best Original Streaming Shows Of The Last Few Years. He took over for David Letterman when the iconic late night host announced his retirement, though Colbert has taken the show in a deeper political direction. TBS Cancels Samantha Bees ShowMaking Late-Night TV Nearly All Male Again (Forbes), Inside The Content Factory Behind The Tonight Show, Which Just Hit 30 Million Subscribers On YouTube (Forbes), This is a BETA experience. One popular explanation is that the late-night show format, conceived during the golden age of television, is no longer viable thanks to streaming services. At first, that responsibility seemed too much for Noah, but he found his footing and became a powerful voice in late-night. "Jon Stewart was a man of the people an American who was dissatisfied with the system and honest about it. So that were the people having fun, and the left, Democrats, are the scolds. The shrinking audiences have been systemic among the liberal comics. The long history of late-night shows may soon be at its end. In May, Maher challenged the modern LGBTQ orthodoxy, which sparked fierce backlash from the left. Colbert walked back the comments days later following public backlash and accusations of homophobia, but stopped short of offering any apology. And Colberts contract keeps him with CBS until next year. Colbert once said "I miss you" to Barack Obama, and another time said he was so moved by a speech by Michelle Obama in 2020 that he declared he couldn't come up with any jokes for it. Monday, by the way, was an important day for Gutfeld as well, marking the debut of a newer, expanded studio for his show the second-most-watched late-night program in all of broadcast and cable. James Corden, the host of The Late Late Show, interviewing the gymnast Simone Biles. Week 2: January 2-8, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year Broadcast Late Night: Current [], Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. The CBS host didn't suffer any consequences. You see that now, with even Bill Maher saying, my god, my side is humorless and the other side is having fun., This is a BETA experience. Johnny Carson, right, and Ed McMahon on the set of The Tonight Show in 1963. Several times the host has shed tears on camera, whether it be about the latest American tragedy or his young sons health. With a long history writing in the field of consumer tech, she now also writes on topics from entertainment to parenting, lifestyle, marketing, and business. Piscopo, who stressed he did not want to be critical of the show that launched his career, expressed confidence in Lorne Michaels, creator and longtime executive producer of "SNL," saying he doesn't need any advice. When comics abandon humor and go with anger instead, they become just another outrage host, Danna Young, a communications professor at University of Delawares Center for Political Communication, told CNBC. Not only was this show, like its immediate successors, hosted by a woman, but its host also went out of her way to interview the likes of Joseph Stalin. Samantha Bee poses backstage at the 72nd Writers Guild Awards at Edison Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 1, 2020. COLBERT SAYS HE LOVES BIDEN, WAVES AT HIM ON CAMERA IN FAWNING INTERVIEW WITH KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, "It's kind of ironic that the biggest obstacle facing late night hosts is five foot four but yes, Greg Gutfeld has changed thegame," Failla quipped. His announcement surprised much of his staff and even top executives at Paramount, Comedy Centrals parent company. She can usually be found binging a new show at night, coupled with a glass of red wine. They're not even going to mention that?". Interestingly, many late-night shows perform well on YouTube, where clips from their television episodes can be watched at leisure and out of order. In 2022, he's plummeted to 1.5 million, losing more than a third of his audience. 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