{"id":150403,"date":"2025-09-17T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150403\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:13:07","slug":"lilly-singh-says-her-nbc-late-night-show-was-set-up-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150403\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh Says Her NBC Late Night Show Was Set Up to Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLilly Singh<\/a> says her NBC<\/a> late-night talker A Little Late With Lilly Singh<\/a> was always going to struggle, and did so well before its 2022 cancellation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want to say you were set up to fail. That\u2019s too harsh,\u201d Julia Cunningham, host of SiriusXM\u2019s The Julia Cunningham Show<\/a>, told Singh as they looked back on her late night run on the Sept. 16 show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I was,\u201d Singh quickly interjected. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone intentionally was like, \u2018we\u2019re going to set her up to fail,\u2019\u201d added the YouTube star about her pandemic-era series that ran on NBC for two seasons until it ended.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Singh was quick to insist \u201cI don\u2019t think any part of it was set up to really be successful.\u201d Having to shoot 96 episodes in three months, and on a tight budget, was no winning formula for a late night talk show, she explained. \u201cIt was really tough. Really, really tough,\u201d Singh recalled of producing two or three shows a day in front of a live audience.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat kept the Canadian entertainer going through a harsh shooting schedule was \u201ca lot of crying, a lot of therapy. I just really tried my best. I knew what a big deal it was and how important it was, and I felt so much pressure to not let people down. But yeah. It was definitely, if I reflect, one of the most challenging things I\u2019ve ever done in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile she has little appetite to do another late-night show, Singh said she\u2019d be better prepared to do a daily talk show if the opportunity came knocking.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf any show that\u2019s a daily type of show would come up to me, I would be better equipped to ask better questions: Talk to me about the budget. Talk to me about the schedule. Talk to me about any contingencies, any plans. There was just so many questions I would\u2019ve asked,\u201d she said on the podcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe suggests that networks need to give any host time to find their brand, audience and voice. \u201cI feel like another thing I would make sure happens is you got to commit to this for like five seasons. If you actually want this to be a thing, you got to give us the space to figure it out a little bit,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter her time on\u00a0NBC\u2018s late night roster ended<\/a>, Singh signed a first-look scripted deal with Blink49 Studios<\/a> and Bell Media, the Canadian media company. The pact included a second look unscripted deal with Singh\u2019s Unicorn Island Productions banner. She also signed a first-look producing deal with\u00a0NBCUniversal<\/a>\u2019s Universal Television Alternative Studio to develop unscripted projects for that company. She currently stars in the new comedy Doin\u2019 It, a film she co-wrote and produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh says her NBC late-night talker A Little Late With Lilly Singh was always going to struggle,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[101049,64,63,101069,134,74416,6333,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-150403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-a-little-late-with-lilly-singh","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-blink49-studios","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-lilly-singh","14":"tag-nbc","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}