CBS Late Night Changes

Didn't Channel 5 try it with The Jack Docherty Show? ISTR it was daily initially, though pre-recorded earlier in the evening rather than being live. I have a dim memory that Graham Norton was a guest presenter on it, before he got his own chat show?

I remember it being one of the better things on Channel 5 when it launched - but that would have been difficult...

Image doesn't show up in your post. So I've posted a copy of it here . . .

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I doubt that is the finalised version of the new LS logo. I certainly hope it isn't. It's a bit rubbish!

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There was also this for BBC Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htHztwCjvwU

In 2001, the BBC reportedly paid Vaughan £2.5 million to leave Channel 4.[17] He transferred to the BBC to present a late-night talk show, Johnny Vaughan Tonight in the same vein of American shows by Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Viewing figures were good (the show regularly received 2.5 – 3 million viewers a night) and commentators suggested that the format was best suited to the free-wheeling Vaughan. However, a highly promoted BBC Two sitcom vehicle 'Orrible, which Vaughan wrote and acted in was poorly received by the critics. The show lost 40% of its audience over its first three episodes and was not renewed for a second series.[17]

How are both linked.

I think CBS was going for someone who already had a young (average age 39 years young for latenight) and dedicated fan base. The Colbert Report aired at 11:30 and Late Show airs at 11:35 so I guess they would expect most of his fan base to automatically check out his new show. According to Wikipedia the Colbert Report averaged about 1.1 million viewers in 2013 but in 2014 his audience decreased 3%.

There are two things working against the popularity of this show first many people have a preconceived notion about him because they do not like the shtick if the characterized Stephen Colbert. Second the show won't feature the characterized version of himself which he's performed nightly for almost ten years - he breaks very little in public.

Stephen Mulhern wants to make a chatshow like James Corden's Late Late Show

Stephen Mulhern has revealed that he's currently in talks about hosting a new chat show similar in style to the The Late Late Show with James Corden.

The TV presenter, who returns to our TV screens with a new run of Catchphrase this Sunday (June 14), told Digital Spy that the UK has no such equivalent and he would love to create funny skits with celebrity guests.

Corden took over from iconic chat show host David Letterman and has been a huge success with audiences across the pond, partly due to his original comedy sketches with game A-listers.

"We're actually in talks about doing a new show - sort of similar to the James Corden show in the US, because ITV2 don't have anything like that," Mulhern explained.

"Because Britain's Got More Talent does so well, and we have such a laugh in it, the idea is to try do something like that over here.

"[I want to] have a good laugh, interact with celebrity guests, do something out of the studio and bring it back into the studio, play games, and have a good laugh. And most importantly, do it live.

"Then there's no going back, it's immediate and what's going to happen happens. When it's prerecorded sometimes celebs can go, 'I want that taken out'. But when it's live, you can't. So touch wood..."

Corden took over from iconic chat show host David Letterman