CBS Late Night Changes

The control room (gallery) was refurbished somewhere around September 2007.
CBS/Worldwide Pants kept the show going by hiring and parking a scanner outside in 53rd Street for 2 months. I know that because I went to rubberneck one afternoon as the guests turned up, and just asked someone with a clipboard and a headset coming out of the scanner, why they were using one.

Pretty obvious reading the link about the front of theatre marquee, what is going to replace it.

Looks like a full HD LED affair is going to replace the Letterman one, so that needs metalwork frames to hang the screens from, hence why the current one has been pulled down.
Guess it'll be used to display the name of the guests, and therefore, you'd guess, be used as part of the opening titles each night.

So did the David Letterman facade on the theater not change at all since 1993? 20 years is a long time in America! To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, if it's 50 years old in America, they smash it to the floor and put a car park on it

I thought it was being renamed the 'David Letterman Theater'?

Sorry to defer the topic of Letterman but the Mirror reports that Sky may have struck a deal with CBS to air a weekly "best of" compilation of The Late Late Show with James Corden on Sky1. It's a shame they might not show full episodes but I guess it's something.

Edit - Link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/james-cordens-late-late-show-5794095

Would surely be easier for them to show the full episodes - it's not like they couldn't find an 11pm slot on one of their channels. At the very least I'd hope they make them available on demand.

But then the other nightly shows don't get show over it so there probably isn't an audience for it. After the initial interest, I'd imagine the audience night after night would be very low and not worth paying for.


By removing the Americanisms, irrelevant monologues about the price of gasoline and unknown guests you're suddenly left with probably a decent hour of weekly television that will appeal to a mainstream UK audience. I think if it happens, it's a smart move.

So I take it thats the 15mins worth of stuff NBC takes out of the Tonight show every evening before its pushed out for its 30min 11pm slot on CNBC.

Think you'll find nothing is missing from the CNBC version of The Tonight Show. The missing 15mins removed is all the US commercial breaks.

Your telling me there have 30mins worth of adverts? Even Craig Ferguson only had 18mins

I doubt it. There's no real audience for the US late night talk shows here. They've tried them umpteen times on various channels, they just don't rate. Given that they are likely to need to be edited for compliance and commercial break reasons, it probably makes sense to do a 'best of' (or 'least annoying of') edit.

I think you'll find The Tonight Show airs in a 30 minute slot on CNBC each weekday, which obviously does have some parts of the programme removed.

It's a real shame, because i love daily late night talk shows in the U.S, and would love for there to be a proper British one here. I know James Corden's show (and Craig Ferguson's before him) had a very British feel, but it would be nice for there to be British guests. I know there aren't enough celebrities to go around in the UK, but late night talk shows also have average people on. Animals seem to be a big thing.

I know these shows don't rate highly in the UK, but lets face it, the 12:30am shows in the U.S get barely a million viewers, yet they seem to spend a ton of money on them. I genuinely wonder why. Maybe, like Jimmy Fallons show, a daily show here could become a hit with viral YouTube clips.