On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:31 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I am delighted. My all-time favorite late night host is being replaced by > my second favorite late night host. > > The article confirms they will keep the name of the show - I have not seen > anything yet about whether WWP will still be a co-owner of the show. If > they are keeping the name, then I think that means WWP (and, unless > something changes, Dave) would be a co-owner and thus boss of Colbert, > unless WWP decides to sell its interest to CBS. >
Assuming Dave is out of the producing game as Pants hasn't produced anything in years, there is no reason for him to hold on to the name Late Show. The CBS press release<http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/news/1002302/>said that producers and venue are still to be determined. So Pants might be interested in continuing to produce, but even if not, I'm sure that CBS will get the names Late Show and Late Late Show in exit negotiations. > > I don't know what Allen thought of Parr, or Parr Johnny, but this is > shaping up as the smoothest transition in the history of late night > television (such as that is). > Allen and Paar both left late night to do weekly prime time shows and I doubt either cared about a transition. NBC chose Carson pretty quickly after Paar left but ABC would not let Carson out of his game show contract and NBC went with guest hosts for six months. -- -- 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.
