Originally Posted by TheBang (Post 14170935)

That's not true, actually. During Jon Stewart's halcyon years, the show was regularly bringing in 1.5-1.6 million viewers. After an initial dip when Trevor Noah took over, he was still able to achieve numbers in the 1.5 million range early in the Trump years, and was still pulling 1.2 million viewers in 2019. But since Trump left office, ratings have declined precipitously. I'm not sure if it was COVID, or the extended summer break he took in 2021, or being the last show to bring back a live studio audience, but he started 2021 still pulling in about 500-600K viewers, and now it's down to about 300-400K viewers: https://twitter.com/search?q=late%20...d_query&f=live

And yes, the cable landscape is much different than it was 7 years ago, but it's not just the total numbers, it's also in relation to the other shows. This year, he was near the bottom of the late night list, only regularly outperforming the recently-cancelled Full Frontal.

I think it's no coincidence that his contract is up at the end of this year. Given the ratings slide over the last couple years, I bet Comedy Central probably encouraged him to "pursue his other interests" rather than renew his contract.

Originally Posted by Red Hood (Post 14170992)

Were those new shows or repeats?

Originally Posted by AaronHernandez (Post 14171227)

Also shocked to see Trevor Noah quit,late night money is pretty good and easy,it's a once in a lifetime bag .

Originally Posted by milo bloom (Post 14172379)

We never got attached to Trevor like we did Jon. We started coming around in the last year, just in time for him to leave.

But we like John Oliver, he's got the sass and the intelligence (and writers) to clarify issues pretty well.

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca (Post 13798779)

He is tapping this





https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...g-for-a-while/

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...9dccd34db3.jpg

Originally Posted by Throwing Copper (Post 14172389)

I don’t think Oliver would work nearly as well without being able to have an R-rated show like he does at HBO.

Originally Posted by Gizmo (Post 14171330)

CC has next to nothing original left. South Park airs 8 episodes a year but tons of movies on Paramount+. They sold off the other shows to HBO. They cancelled Tosh after renewing it for 4 more seasons.

is Aquafina the only original show they have left?

This might be the end of TDS.

Originally Posted by Why So Blu? (Post 14172477)

He's now tapping Duo Lipa. My hero!

Originally Posted by Red Hood (Post 14172600)

When Tosh.0 got unexpectedly cancelled, the reasoning behind it was that CC was going to change their programing to more of a cartoon comedy channel, with South Park being the anchor and other shows being developed. Then the pandemic happened and CC acquired the rights to Seinfeld reruns and their plans went to shit. CC is now all reruns, nothing original with the exception of South Park, TDS and some random shows here and there. They don't seem to even do comedy specials anymore. Its like CC just became another MTV, MTV2,VH1, just showing reruns almost 24/7

Originally Posted by Throwing Copper (Post 14172389)

I don’t think Oliver would work nearly as well without being able to have an R-rated show like he does at HBO.

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca (Post 14174930)

Hasan Minaj if he was interested would be a great choice as the new host.

Originally Posted by joltman (Post 14173172)

Are there any other daily shows in the vein of TDS (comedic news), whether on TV or streaming somewhere? I rely too much on TDS for news, so if they go away I really should find another source. I do watch Oliver, and did watch Bee, but they were both weekly.
I guess I could start watching the monologue on Colbert on Seth Myers. I just can't watch full episodes of the network late night shows.

Originally Posted by JTH182 (Post 14178094)

I never miss Seth Meyers' "A Closer Look." He completely turned his show around when he stopped doing a stand-up monologue and sat at his desk like Weekend Update. I actually find Seth to be my favorite of the talk shows now after a not so great start. He's really found his voice.

Originally Posted by Jay G. (Post 14178332)

Yeah, I watch Seth Meyers's monologue and A Closer Look on Youtube. A Closer Look is only 3 times a week though, and the monologue is more joke delivery than getting into detail on the day's news. I mostly watch the monologues so I'm not lost when watching Corrections.

To add to the weekly show offerings though, The Amber Ruffin Show. starring a writer for Seth Meyers as well as staffing many of his writers, is good, especially the "How did we get here" segments, which are like a lighter John Oliver deep drive.

Also, on Youtube, I like Some More News, which does really deep dives, but also the subjects of those deep drives tend to be more topical than John Oliver's, covering something related to what was in the news the past few weeks. Their shows tend to run long, often near an hour, although they're shorter if you skip through the paid promotions segments (you can distinguish them in the thumbnail previews while FF due to the border around them). Here's a recent, rather shorter show:

Originally Posted by JTH182 (Post 14197439)

Yeah, I like "Some more News." I haven't watched Amber Ruffin, even though I like her on Seth Meyers, because I usually forget Peacock is a thing lol.