{"id":152723,"date":"2025-09-18T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:36:15","slug":"lilly-singh-says-her-late-night-show-was-set-up-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152723\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh says her late-night show was \u201cset up to fail\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been much ink spilled, in recent months, about the fate of late-night talk TV. The cancellation of Stephen Colbert<\/a> has been the big marquee item, of course, with Paramount continuing to swear up and down that the axing was a strictly financial decision, rooted in how expensive these daily TV productions can be\u2014and having nothing to do with Colbert\u2019s political content, or his vocal criticisms of Paramount itself. But even outside that big-ass canary in the coal mine, there have been other birds dropping around the edges: The abandonment of Taylor Tomlinson\u2019s <\/a>After Midnight by CBS, and, even before that, the decision by NBC to cancel Lilly Singh\u2019s <\/a>A Little Late back in 2021, and drop the latest part of its late-night programming off the schedule.<\/p>\n

Now, Canadian comedian Singh has opened up a bit about the cancellation, cheerfully agreeing that she was \u201cset up to fail\u201d by executives in a new interview with SiriusXM\u2019s Julia Cunningham<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say you were set up to fail\u2014\u201d Cunningham begins, before Singh jumps in with a chipper \u201cNo, I was.\u201d Singh points especially to the 1:30 a.m. show\u2019s grueling schedule, which, due to budget restrictions, saw it record its whole 97-episode first season in bulk in the span of three months. (Among other things, meaning that Singh was releasing episodes with a live audience, and no mention of ongoing total societal disruption, during the first several months of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns.) \u201cThen,\u201d Singh adds, \u201cThe second season also released during the pandemic, so it was Zoom interviews. So, I had two pandemic seasons of a late-night show, half the writer\u2019s room of everyone else, and half the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the late-late timeslot has always been built on some pretty harsh fiscal realities; the whole history of A Little Late\u2019s predecessor in the slot, Last Call With Carson Daly, was basically a series of moves designed to produce talk show-esque content without having to shell out for a topical or regularly produced series. Still, it\u2019s not hard to see how being expected to pump out timely, eye-catching content on that kind of schedule could be hugely dispiriting.<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, Singh sounds optimistic about the whole thing, noting that, \u201cI\u2019m so grateful because I feel like I can do any schedule and I learned so much\u201d\u2014including, she notes, what questions to ask about how much money she\u2019ll have to make something, and what kind of schedule will be demanded of her. She\u2019s certainly kept busy since A Little Late went off the air, starring in Muppets TV series The Muppets Mayhem; writing, executive producing, and starring in her own film, Doin\u2019 It;\u00a0and appearing in a voice role in The Bad Guys 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lilly Singh makes the jump to Netflix as NBC ends A Little Late<\/a>Lilly Singh and Amber Ruffin gleefully squash the media’s made-up beef between them<\/a><\/p>\n

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