https://corporate.sky.com/media-cent...e=email-alerts

On Sky On Demand from July 19.

RTL II in Germany also have bought the show for their online channel. Perhaps it makes sense as the show is bitty and therefore doesn't need to be watched in full like Craig Ferguson's incarnation of TLLS.

Very interesting, thanks for the news.

There were rumours last year that Sky were close to doing a deal for a weekly ‘best of’ version of the programme for Sky One, but clearly those plans were abandoned.
Making it available only via On Demand only is a very interesting, and pioneering, move for Sky. I can understand not wanting to give it a primetime slot every night due to the fact that a lot of the time the guests will be unknown/irrelevant to the average UK viewer, so putting it On Demand (allowing the viewer to only watch the bits they have an interest in) makes perfect sense. As does the ‘highlights’ option for SkyQ viewers.

My only concern/question is this – what viewers are they actually aiming this at? Unless you want to watch all of every show (which there can’t be much demand for) then you can already watch the bits you want to via YouTube. So who is going to watch it via On Demand? Or are they going to geo-block the clips on YouTube from now on (as they’ve started doing with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)? In which case I think this announcement could actually damage the programmes popularity in the UK...

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I'll have to see if I like watching it on tv.
I generally prefer to watch on tv rather than my PC but I've got into a habit of ending the night watching downloads of Corden and Colbert, plus a few other youtube clips on the PC before slinking off to sleep.

I guess though I could leave it a day and watch the show at 10/11 like Norton/Ross/Carr.

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I'm just wondering if this will be available on Virgin version of Sky On Demand or not?

Virgin have access to Sky On Demand for the different channels but this isn't on an actual channel!

I'm sort of the same as you. I've got used to watching the highlights on YouTube (via my Amazon Fire TV Box) as it's really well presented - all highlights grouped under each nights episode, so it's each to watch the best bits of last nights show for example. Hopefully they don't start geo-blocking the YouTube channel, as I've said, I think if they did that the overall popularity of the programme will drop in the UK. I'll give watching via Sky On Demand a go though...


Good question. I have a funny feeling they'll keep it as a Sky exclusive, using it as bit of a unique selling point, but that's just a guess. If they did that and geo-blocked the YouTube channel then a lot of people will lose access to the programme.


The more I think about this I still think it's an odd decision. I get they want to be more like Netflix and Amazon, but it's just a bit weird. How are they going to promote it? Putting it as a highlight on the main Sky+ homescreen will help it initially, but what about week in and week out - are people really going to hunt it out in the On Demand section every night or just forget it's even available?
Personally I'd make it available On Demand as soon as possible after the US broadcast, and then give it a late night slot on the Sky One schedule (midnight?), or produce a weekly 'best of' for broadcast in late primetime (10pm?) on Sky One. Just my random opinions.

I went to a recording of A League of Their Own last night, it was good to see James Corden in person – another US late night talk show host I can add to my list of having seen them live. I had second row seats too so had a great view. Naturally I wore my Late Late Show t-shirt.

Anyway, there’s a new article on The Guardian website about Sky picking up the show. It sort of sums up my view quite well.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...te-show-uk-sky

Seems to be saying no one was going to watch the full one hour show so why bother showing it at all. Firstly it won't be an hour and I often catch the full version of The Tonight Show (where I live it's shown in full) and it goes by very quickly and the extra bits like the full monologue and the interplay between the host and the sidekick are fun to watch.

Reports are circulating that CBS could be considering replacing Stephen Colbert with James Corden as host of The Late Show.
In Touch magazine quotes a CBS insider as saying “The next months will be vital. Depending on how things unfold, James could be in Stephen’s seat by early next year.”

However other news sources claim to have reached out to their CBS sources and have been told it’s “not true”.

Personally I suspect it’s nothing but a rumour, but I also suspect that CBS must have at least have had the thought of maybe moving Corden to The Late Show.

http://www.gossipcop.com/james-corde...ow-host-fired/

I'm not sure if Corden would want it. I doubt he'd be grasping after more money (although also doubt he;d turn it down) but The Late Late Show seems to suit his style more than the more standard format of The Late Show.


I think Colbert has been fine. It will be nice to see how the show develops without being overly political after the election.

It would't work anyway.

Moving Cordon to 11:35 would put like against like. Cordon does the same kind of shtick as Jimmy Fallon. But Fallon has established the audience at that hour and viewers wouldn't move simply to see similar humour and celeb arse kissing on another channel.

12:35 he's the only one doing that. His main competition at that hour is Seth Meyers, who actually does humor similar to.... Colbert. Well, sort of. Not exactly, but it's closer than the others.

DVR/timeshifting reinforces this. The live viewers will stick with who they're already watching if given two of the same thing, but timeshifters, if they like a certain approach won't care that it's an hour later.

Colbert is very quick witted and the writers he's brought with him from his previous show are great. (love the line that what's worst is that Hillary's lying and Trump isn't) But he lacks the common touch that has won Fallon and Corden so many fans. He's still a correspondent and not a human and the show is immersed in liberal politics which alienates people who disagree with him and much of the female demographic who don't care for politics. I don't buy into this counter programming theory either. Programmes that compete with each other are often similar. Corden's potential viewers may not stay up to watch his show and will definitely not watch Colbert's show beforehand. CBS is getting the worst of both worlds.

I agree with most of what you’ve said.
Stephen Colbert’s more political approach to a late night talk show has prevented him from having the populist success Jimmy Fallon and James Corden have had. I’d expand on that a little by saying populist success largely comes from the younger generation, and politics isn’t generally one of their priorities (when it comes to entertainment anyway) – so he’s losing viewers there. So that largely leaves him with the older generation, which are generally more conservative/republican, so his liberal political approach loses him even more viewers there.

What I don’t necessarily agree with is that there’s no value in the counter programming approach CBS have taken. Although I accept that a lot (most?) of Fallon’s (and Corden’s) success comes from online attention, most of the money these programmes make for the network is still from their traditional television broadcasts, and most of that from their ‘live’ broadcasts (not PVRs or catch up).
So I still think CBS putting a ‘different’ style of late night talk show up against the juggernaut that is Fallon is still a smart move. And then having a ‘Fallon rival’ (Corden) in the later slot.

So if you were the head of CBS, what would you do? Move Corden up against Fallon at 11:30pm, leave Colbert where he is, or something completely different?

It'd have to be to leave things as they are at least until after the election as Colbert could be the go-to for election coverage. Ultimately the next year will determine whether Colbert can attract enough new viewers by making his show more structured. A good monologue followed by interplay with a sidekick be it his associate producer or Jon Batiste followed by a clearly defined bit. Jimmy Fallon's show's brilliance is in its predictability and if Colbert could deliver a killer monologue followed by recurring bits people can look forward to, he could well get the show back.

Batiste maybe a very good band leader/musician but he is useless at anything else on the show.

An Emmy nomination for James Corden but not for, no need to guess.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...or-late-night/

Full list of Emmy nominations for ‘Outstanding Variety Talk Series’:

Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Late Late Show With James Corden
Real Time With Bill Maher
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

It’s nice to see The Late Late Show With James Corden, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon all nominated, well deserved in my opinion. For me the only one missing is Conan, I feel it’s unfairly overlooked these days.
Notable absences of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
If I had to make a prediction, I’d say Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. But otherwise I’d say The Late Late Show With James Corden and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon also have a good chance.

Didn't realise they'd brought in the online only option. Must be difficult to sift through all the online content available.

Many vloggers have their own 'chat shows' these days.

I’m not sure I know what you mean?
I assume you’re referring to the Sky deal? If so, they’ve bought the programme but have decided to make it available via their ‘On Demand’ service only. I’m not sure whether the deal restricts them from broadcasting it traditionally on one of their channels or whether they could also broadcast it on, say, Sky One each night if they wanted to. I know they have scheduled ‘The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Prime Time Special’ for Sky One next Tuesday at 10pm. And I’ve seen tweets from Sky suggesting they might broadcast The Late Late Show on Sky One in the future, which suggests their deal allows them to if they wanted to.
If you’re referring to the The Late Late Show ‘highlights’ available via SkyQ, I suspect this will just be some sort of mirror of the programmes YouTube channel.

No, talking about the Emmy's and Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee which is a online only show.
Seems they brought in that option a few years back.

Oh, I see, I understand now.
Yes, the Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee nomination has surprised a few people (myself included), but it does air on (and is produced by) Crackle – which essentially isn’t that different from Netflix or Amazon, so it's not a million miles away from the likes of House of Cards getting nominated I guess.

Starts today on Sky On Demand – episodes available less than 24 hours after US broadcast!

The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special, which aired in the US a few months ago, also airs tonight on Sky One at 10pm.