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6 months agoAs a gen-x person it breaks my heart to admit that the format is meant for a bygone era. They just aren’t something people care for today.
Letterman, Conan and Ferguson were the tail end of the format’s viability.

As a gen-x person it breaks my heart to admit that the format is meant for a bygone era. They just aren’t something people care for today.
Letterman, Conan and Ferguson were the tail end of the format’s viability.
Sadly no. The death of the late night talk show is almost inevitable. You can find articles detailing the format’s struggles going back years.
2024
https://fortune.com/2024/10/25/late-night-tv-shows-fading-colbert-leading-late-audience-drop-32/
2023
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/28/late-night-tv-corden-ratings-decline
2022
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/late-night-shows-donald-trump/