Late-Night Shows To Shut Down Immediately After Strike Called
deadline.comNightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike.
Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show, which had correspondent Dulce Sloan host this week, will also be hit, while shows like Saturday Night Live, Real Time with Bill Maher and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will similarly be impacted, although final decisions on those shows are expected to come later in the week.
The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show, Late Night and The Daily Show are all expected to pivot to re-runs. Colbert was set to have Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Chita Rivera on Tuesday’s show with Chris Hayes, Zach Cherry, Michael J.
Fox and Shonda Rhimes lined up for later in the week. Fallon was set with Ken Jeong and Emma Chamberlain on Tuesday night with the likes of Jennifer Lopez, JJ Watt, Elle Fanning and Bowen Yang among guests for later in the week.
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