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In reply to the discussion: Your preference for Letterman's successor on "Late Night" [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)At long last, I feel that late-night comedy and talk programming is dead. Every year, the audience for this kind of programming gets smaller and smaller, the revenues shrink, the programming becomes more and more about hyping their own network/studio's content which creates a feedback loop that is killing the genre.
Kill it and move to other formats. One of the mentions out there is that CBS is looking possibly as Stephen Colbert as a replacement. I think that's half a bad idea...don't hire Colbert to host a late show, kill the late show and hire Colbert to do what he does best: scripted satire news programming.
Otherwise, let's just use it for a national news show, an evening wrap-up or to replay episodes of comedies and dramas that you're trying to scrap-up ratings for.