http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/stephen-colbert-late-show-chris-licht-showrunner-1201752457/
CBS This Morning exec producer Chris Licht, who was responsible for that show’s launch, is helping fill a void at the CBS late-night show since Colbert "had essentially been serving as showrunner as well as host,” according to Variety. The Late Show has performed unevenly since its debut, with not all show elements working.
My other comments in this forum about Stephen and the Show are vindicated by this appointment of a show runner. Dumb fan boys/girls didn't like my criticisms. They don't understand that many of us are big fans who post honest critique out of concern that his show is going downhill and don't want it cancelled and Stephen's talent to go to waste.
shareSee, I told you folks that Les Moonves wasn't going to put up with consistent .3 ratings, and, he's not. I also mentioned that any top brass induced changes wouldn't necessarily be for the better. CBS This Morning, are you effing kidding me?
About 5 months ago I predicted a big writer exodus within the year. This will be the straw that breaks that camel's back.
And they 'hit it off.' Riiiiight. Say goodbye to all that precious autonomy, Stephen. You made your bed and this is the corporate automaton you now have to sleep with. In five months from now, when your ratings are even more abysmal than they are now, and CBS is desperately looking for a way out of it's contract, remember, this entire cluster F is all on you. You just HAD to be fulfilled creatively. You just had to give your core fan base the middle finger.
What goes around, comes around.
https://t.co/Y0Xfsxk3En
The Late Show’s post-Super Bowl episode was a success with 21 million viewers, but that special show barely made a dent in his ratings. So CBS boss Moonves decided that The Late Show needed a “head coach,” the NY Times reports. And that’s how he got CBS This Morning boss Chris Licht on board. PLUS: Colbert’s also been disappointing in social media.
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/colbert-late-show-challenge-social-media-crickets-1.11691160
Thanks for the link. That confirms everything I've been saying re; Les. Les can sing "We're happy with Stephen!" on the rooftops, as he was doing earlier this year, but, you get three .3s in one week and that song will very quickly morph into "Stephen needs supervision!"
The Late Show’s post-Super Bowl episode was a success with 21 million viewers, but that special show barely made a dent in his ratings.
Yikes, dude, entitled much?
I mean look, I miss The Colbert Report dearly, and (while I do generally enjoy it) find Colbert's Late Show to be disappointing in comparison. I mean, there are just only so many ways to make a traditional network late night show amazing nowadays. It's a dying format for good reason.
But with that said, it's his choice. There would have been no point in him staying at TCR indefinitely if he wasn't into it anymore; eventually, it would have showed and affected the show, which I'm guessing none of us would have happy to see. Besides that, it's his life and he owes us nothing. If he wants to do a traditional late night show, speaking as a fan who was thoroughly entertained by him for so many hours and so many years (going back to The Daily Show), I hope he succeeds and will be happy for him if he does, regardless of whether I'm still watching.
I'm skeptical about the new showrunner. We'll see. Hopefully he's just doing managing general things and won't be micromanaging the content of the show too much (I don't care if the new guy books more vapid celebrity guests, but the moment Colbert is asked to do less political humor is probably the moment I stop watching, or stop watching as regularly). But, jesus dude, there's no reason to get so entitled about it and act like Stephen has personally betrayed you by making a show you don't like as much as the last one.
you sound like you disagree and agree at the same time
But with that said, it's his choice.
remember, this entire cluster F is all on youshare
If you're really framing this from the perspective of an actor starring in a great TV show who then moves on to starring in a merely good one, then our perspectives of the Colbert Report are world's apart.
Report Stephen was a cultural and political icon. By cutting through so much BS in such a brilliant and hilarious manner, he was able to change the political landscape. The Colbert Report was way more than just a great show, it was a show that people believed in. For quite a few fans, Stephen was a luminary.
If the Colbert Report was just merely a show that you enjoyed, and no more, that's fine. But there are those of us for which this show/this character has greater import. And it is that part of his fan base that Stephen has betrayed.
Believing in something or someone, only to have that belief dashed against a stone, isn't being 'entitled.' Were we wrong to put our faith in Stephen? Maybe. Perhaps you could try to belittle our naivety. Personally, I will never be embarrassed for being too idealistic. But entitlement has got nothing to do with it.
Oh, mercy me! I do declare, that you're going to work yourself up into such a state as to give yourself the vapors, Rhett! Perhaps you should retire to the veranda, rest a spell and fan yourself until these cruel dark clouds pass you by.
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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