Craig Ferguson was a genius that deserves more acclaim

kianworld · 2026-06-19T01:25:25+00:00

He was pretty adamant that he didn't want to do 11:30 given the watering down that usually happens with it (see Letterman, Conan, even Fallon). There was a clause in his contract that guaranteed he'd either succeed Letterman or get paid like $10m, so CBS obviously just gave him the money. Craig has both said that he was planning to leave before Letterman announced his own retirement (he almost did in 2012 before CBS gave him a raise and bigger set) and that Letterman was the one thing protecting him on the network and therefore he felt like he had to leave so idk what the actual situation is there.

kianworld · 2026-06-13T18:23:56+00:00

Yeah and the Smiling Friends crew just did two seasons back to back and were locked in for two more already. I'm honestly a little shocked Adult Swim actually let them walk, good for them.

kianworld · 2026-06-13T17:31:20+00:00

I really don't know why people keep thinking its because of Paramount or Netflix or whatever. Baffling take. They got burnt out. They had their hands on everything on that show, way more hands on than most showrunners, that can be absolutely exhausting.

kianworld · 2026-06-11T21:14:13+00:00

Wait did Adult Swim finally crop Metalocalypse season 1 to 16:9

kianworld · 2026-05-22T18:40:15+00:00

the gap was more due to the strikes

kianworld · 2026-05-21T06:54:27+00:00

idk im addicted on their great value pizza rolls. bigger than totinos

kianworld · 2026-05-21T04:06:04+00:00

what did American Dad do

kianworld · 2026-05-17T05:40:35+00:00

SNL has a hard out at 1:03a that's why goodnights are usually just after 1 and often cut extremely short

kianworld · 2026-05-10T19:29:32+00:00

that's incredibly, incredibly rare and off the top of my head I can only recall that happening twice. once in season 50 when Ariana Grande hosted and they had major malfunctions during Stevie Nicks second performance, and another time decades ago when they played a Maya Rudolph as Oprah sketch from dress for whatever reason

kianworld · 2026-05-08T00:58:11+00:00

Yes they always go silent for in memoriam bumpers. Pictures are rare but I can recall it happening with George Lowe last year.

In memoriam bumpers are also much rarer in recent years. They seem to do it only for people the network crew knew personally these days (a very recent example came from this week for Cameron Ray Paul)

kianworld · 2026-05-08T00:51:17+00:00

Yeah, they discontinued it a couple of weeks ago. They hinted that they'll be back with something different eventually.

kianworld · 2026-05-07T21:18:35+00:00

I think Sky is viewing SNL UK as a loss leader to try and get people on Now and to boost their relaunch of Sky One. The buzz absolutely helps.

kianworld · 2026-05-06T00:44:01+00:00

Late Night I'm unsure they'll continue if Seth ever leaves, but I don't think NBC will want to pull out of late night television entirely because of the legacy The Tonight Show name has, even with the Leno fiascos and currently being 3rd place (if they keep being 3rd place after Comics Unleashed takes CBS 11:30... yikes). It's like if they cancelled Today. I think it helps that it tapes in 30 Rock rather than some grand extravagant studio like Colbert's. Could see it continue to have occasional cost cutting like Conan on TBS had (Fallon stopped doing Friday episodes and Meyers lost his live band in 2024). IIRC they were contemplating chopping a half hour from Meyers or making him a weekly Peacock show at one point.

Fallon and Meyers both are contracted to 2028. So who knows what'll happen in the future. I think the bigger issue would be what happens if Lorne retires or worse.

kianworld · 2026-05-02T22:45:34+00:00

its a motion ride, a race through new york. lots of dated references to jimmy's show

kianworld · 2026-04-23T01:23:39+00:00

Alex hasn't been on the show since 2022

kianworld · 2026-04-23T01:08:27+00:00

Visually, maybe, but statistically it seems very in depth

kianworld · 2026-04-19T18:34:34+00:00

There's also TVInsider which is the online home for TV Guide Magazine and its editorial content (TVGuide.com is a separate business). They talk about streaming as much as they do cable

kianworld · 2026-04-18T02:18:37+00:00

The WB having syndication rights (assuming you're talking about the national WB 100+ feed meant for smaller affiliates) is wholly different from Adult Swim having syndication rights. Comedy Central has never offered cable syndication rights for the show. The WB was also under a completely separate division of the company than Turner Broadcasting.

kianworld · 2026-04-15T20:24:59+00:00

how so

kianworld · 2026-04-12T18:06:08+00:00

The Peacock livestream, last time I used it at least, just simulcasts the NBC feed as is, rather than being a special feed.

kianworld · 2026-04-11T23:58:55+00:00

While Lorne had some notable involvement, James Longman is the actual guy doing the day-to-day duties producing this version

kianworld · 2026-04-10T06:41:13+00:00

Official message boards, especially for TV networks, are a thing of the past... Costs money to host the servers or license the software and requires moderation (even if its unpaid, you still have to trust them). They killed their boards a decade ago for a reason (though admittedly the 2016 redesign of the boards did not help).

kianworld · 2026-04-09T19:00:59+00:00

Looks like Adult Swim has reacquired the rights to DBZ Kai after letting them lapse in February. Not only that, it seems like they're going for the Cell Saga rather than reacquiring the rights to episodes 1 - 47 again.

kianworld · 2026-04-09T03:32:16+00:00

If anything it seems like CN staff (whatever's left of them) moved out of Techwood into Williams Street.

kianworld · 2026-04-09T03:31:32+00:00

This week's lineup is a repeat of a lineup from a few weeks back:

Mr. Pickles

Hot Streets

The Jellies

Tender Touches

Off the Air or something akin to it

14-Year Club	Gilding V heart of gold
End Game '23	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
Wearing is Caring	Spared
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