They are showing another Friday-night re-run tonight.
Is Colbert only working 4 days a week now?
Was there an announcement?
I was really looking forward to having 5 shows per week, especially on Fridays.
Oh, well.
I was surprised by this also...hope this wasn't an unplanned thing due to emergency.
shareThey may be alternating weeks, airing new shows every other Friday.
EDITED: Maybe not, as the listings now show another rerun this Friday. Not sure what they are doing. http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
I noticed that too -- tonight is another rerun.
Last Friday they taped Monday's Spike Jonze opener, which explains why they did not have a new show last Friday.
So I wonder what today's excuse -- um, reason -- will be?
I thought they were going to tape 2 shows on Thursdays. If they do that, they could do pretapes like the Spike Jonze film on Fridays while still broadcasting a "new" show on Friday. Not sure what the logic is to airing reruns on some (but not all) Fridays.
shareseems they're just not really into the whole memo thing. the communication of operationals sucks with this show. and we still don't know who the announcer is. god damn shroud of secrecy
shareOn Thursday night, he said, "See you Monday."
shareThat whole Friday Night Fights thing goes down the drain lol. This stinks, I liked the show 5 nights a week
shareFriday Night Fights is a good bit to do, not necessarily from a comedy or entertainment standpoint, but a good bit for a pretape. It can take up several minutes of the show, and it can be recorded in advance. Also, they've had the voting close on Wednesday since the beginning, as if they were planning on doing these FNF bits on Thursdays all along. So if they do want to pretape most Friday shows on Thursdays, I imagine FNF would stick around.
shareActually on April 1st (no April Fool's Day joke) I see listed on the website for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And I see that the taping is sold out, but that is the only Friday in the month that there is a taping. And it looks like he has the 11th thru 15th off, and the rest of the month is a 4 day a week taping schedule. So maybe Stephen Colbert is doing what David Letterman did, work 4 days a week with Friday off, and I guess it is out of the question like I am remembering David Letterman did, where one day during the week either Monday or Thursday where he taped 2 episodes and one of the two episodes served as the Friday show.
shareWas it Jay Leno that always did five nights a week? Or did he end up dropping that too? I can't remember. I hate the new lazy four nights a week format. They all do it.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was supposed to be 5 new shows per week -- Colbert made a point of mentioning that he was going from 4 shows per week on Comedy Central to 5 on CBS.
Seems that he dropped that fairly quickly.
It's one thing to tape 2 shows on Thursday to have a new show on Friday.
But they are showing re-runs on too many Fridays (like last night's show with John Oliver).
I'm very disappointed.
I enjoy the show a lot but Friday Night Fights was probably the only regular segment I didn't care for.
I remember him giving a friendly jab to Kimmel about working five nights (Kimmel only did four) but in no way did I think that meant he wouldn't be doing it either at some point.
It's not just Fridays. Looks like from March 18 to April 17 (a one-month period) there will be just 9 new Late Shows.
shareIt's not just Fridays. Looks like from March 18 to April 17 (a one-month period) there will be just 9 new Late Shows.
No different than any other late night show.
shareNo different than any other late night show.Has anyone actually tallied up how many weeks off each show takes? Fallon, Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Conan, and the Comedy Central late night shows all have new shows this week. http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html share
And weeks Colbert has worked other shows were off. It all evens out.
shareI didn't do it for all of them, I just compared Colbert and Fallon (from the beginning of 2016), and noticed that Fallon has only done one or two new shows than Colbert. I know that Fallon was listed as having 204 shows in 2015, which, accounting for weekends of course, means they took (approximately) 57 weekdays off. I think it all just depends on the networks scheduling.
shareAnd when the show does air, most of the time the commercials are on.
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