When Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on ABC after a near-weeklong suspension, some cheered it as a triumph of free speech over the oppressive reach of government censorship. But I saw ...

Bill Scheft worked on David Letterman's late-night shows longer than many of their viewers had been on the planet — 24 years, or the second-longest tenure of any writer at CBS's "Late Show" or NBC's ...

After 70 years of tucking America into bed, it looks like the curtain is about to come down on the late night genre. What’s being lost is more than a TV tradition but a backdrop for some of America’s ...

That’s how Jon Stewart described the state of late night shows and network television in Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show” — like two once-powerful, now totally irrelevant brands. That harsh ...

Conan O’Brien, king of getting screwed over by the network, has seen the writing on the wall for a while. Speaking at his induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, O’Brien acknowledged the ...

Late night isn’t dead. Yet. But its future, which was never exactly bright, might be cratering. The hoary format’s downward slide has, up until this point, been comparatively slow, with advertising ...

Stephen Colbert announced on Thursday that not only would he be leaving the late-night sphere, but that The Late Show as a whole would cease to be. Combined with the cancellation of After Midnight, ...

Network hosts like Kimmel face soaring costs and shrinking audiences as YouTube and podcast stars claim late-night’s cultural spotlight. AFP via Getty Images Conan O’Brien sounded a little wistful ...