None of the shows you mentioned (Key & Peele, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, etc.) pair well enough with TDS to keep that hour in tact. TDS & Colbert work as a unit because the two shows, despite differing styles of satirizing the news, follow a similar vein. Installing a sketch show into the 11:30 spot eliminates any possibility of topical humor that can tie into what TDS covered at the top of the hour, and will almost certainly result in viewers tuning out to Jimmy or Colbert. (Of course, it's entirely likely the Colbert Nation will follow him anyway.) Similarly, you can't just install @midnight at 11:30; aside from the obvious naming issue (@eleventhirty?), I don't think it's a strong enough show to hold viewers.
My vote would be for Sam Bee or John Hodgman to take 11:30. Or maybe something with Bee and Jason Jones, doing a play on Fox & Friends or the other morning pundits-on-parade shows? On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:06:19 PM UTC-4, David Bruggeman wrote: > > CC has been rolling out a series of shows (usually at 10 pm) over the last > 18-24 months that have led into TDS. Most of them are sketch shows, others > are semi-scripted. They might work in a rotating schedule at 11:30. > > I mean something like - have Key and Peele on Mondays, Amy Shumer on > Tuesdays, Review on Wednesdays, Workaholics on Thursdays. Rotate the shows > once they run through their new batch of programs. After 8-12 weeks, swap > them out for new episodes of Tosh.0, Broad City, Nick Kroll, etc. New > programs can be plugged in as appropriate. > > Now I suggest this with no knowledge or understanding of whether these > shows get better than TDS/TCR numbers at 10. > > In terms of spinning off a correspondent, Samantha Bee is most senior, but > I'm not sure what the next TV show format to skewer should be. The panel > shows? > > David > > ------------------------------ > *From:* PGage <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *To:* "[email protected] <javascript:>" > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > > *Sent:* Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:31 PM > *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterman retiring in 2015, supposedly > > I will start speculation on yet another front - what happens to Comedy > Central after TDS now? The article says Colbert told his staff they are all > coming with him, which is great (he probably has the best comedy writing > staff in television). I guess it was unlikely they were ever going to get > Dennis Miller (or whoever) to come in and replace Colbert to host the > Colbert Report, but if they want a second show to follow TDS they will be > starting from scratch. I wonder if they thought of this when Oliver was > leaving, or has the idea always been to move the Hardwick show (which I > have to admit I have never seen) to 11:30? > > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
