{"id":684385,"date":"2026-06-04T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684385\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:28:09","slug":"the-month-that-changed-late-night-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684385\/","title":{"rendered":"The Month That Changed Late-Night TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>LateNighter\u2019s Monthly Roundtable podcast returns with an episode that examines one of the most consequential months in late-night history.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/tag\/stephen-colbert\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2018s sign off after more than a decade at CBS, Bill Carter, Mark Malkoff, and Jon Schneider look at what his final weeks revealed about the state of the time period\u2014and where late night goes from here.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/news\/byron-allen-comics-unleashed-cbs-1135-debut\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"82360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Byron Allen\u2019s arrival at 11:35<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/news\/ratings\/kimmel-leads-first-post-colbert-ratings-snapshot\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"82714\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s changing position <\/a>atop the late-night landscape to <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s post-Season 51 outlook and one YouTuber\u2019s efforts to reinvigorate the format, the conversation explores an industry at an inflection point.<\/p>\n<p>Click the embed at the top of this post to watch now, or find The LateNighter Podcast Network on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/latenighter-podcast-network\/id1745253634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6OQ3JCIUML5MFmPowR4yae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LateNightercom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Show Topics:<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert\u2019s final weeks and the legacy of The Late Show<\/p>\n<p>David Letterman\u2019s Late Show return, The Strike Force Five reunion, and the moments that defined Colbert\u2019s farewell<\/p>\n<p>Byron Allen\u2019s takeover of the 11:35 hour<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s new position atop the late-night ratings race<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s \u201cfirst\u201d late-night show<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Night Live after Season 51: standout players and what\u2019s ahead<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LateNighter\u2019s Monthly Roundtable podcast returns with an episode that examines one of the most consequential months in late-night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[124067,290674,49565,120217,13724,88,290676,17114,11575,12015,10674,272614,10675,36512,92],"class_list":["post-684385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ashley-padilla","tag-ben-gleib","tag-byron-allen","tag-comics-unleashed","tag-david-letterman","tag-entertainment","tag-good-night-with-ben-gleib","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-strike-force-five","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}