First on LateNighter: The news will keep coming for the next seven weeks, but “A Closer Look” will not.
Thursday night’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers was the NBC show’s final first-run installment until September 21, beginning a break that will stretch across nearly two months. It is the longest planned hiatus in the show’s history.
NBC will air repeats of the show throughout the break. That distinguishes its plans from those of The Daily Show, which signed off Thursday night for a five-week summer vacation. Comedy Central will take the show completely off the air during its hiatus, filling its Monday-through-Thursday 11 p.m. time slot with alternate programming until its return Tuesday, September 8—the day after Labor Day.
For Late Night, a seven-week production shutdown is new territory. Since launching in February 2014, the show has occasionally taken breaks as long as three or four weeks, but never one this long outside of the five-month shutdown caused by the 2023 writers strike.
The show’s September 21 return will mark the first episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers’ 14th season. Meyers is the second-longest-tenured host in the NBC franchise’s history, behind Conan O’Brien, who logged 16 seasons from 1993 to 2009.
Seth Meyers himself has nearly a dozen live appearances scheduled during the break, including stand-up shows across the Northeast, two live editions of his Family Trips podcast with brother Josh Meyers, and performances on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard.
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is NBC killing the franchise? Nothing attracts viewers more than reruns. Said nobody.
I’m guessing it’s a way to save on costs. 🙁
yeah, maybe he shouldn’t make millions…he should take a pay cut…..as it is Seth Meyers earns an annual salary of $5 million for hosting Late Night . This contract, which keeps him on the network through 2028, positions him with a total net worth estimated between $25 million and $26 million
Quaid Army
Top 10 Questions::
1) Does he get paid by NBC while he’s gallavanting around the country.?
2) Is he looking for new “Drinking With Seth” guests because most celebrities think he’s a bit “mouthy”?
3) Is he taking extra time to divorce his wife in order to seriously begin the “Seth’s Harem” show?
4) Or is he giving Jon Stewart extra time to divorce his wife in order to marry Seth?
5) Is he being replicated by RobotsAreUs in order to appear like he’s hosting the show, so that his “Family
Trips” with his new drinkin’ buddies can continue?
6) Is he simply running from the IRS?
7) Is he fulfilling the old New Hampshire slogan, “How can we miss you if you won’t go away?”
8) Will we get a refund from our cable/streaming/stealing provider for missed shows?
9) Has Andy Sandberg stolen Frisbee’s corpse, and Seth is out for blood?
10) Has NBC actually fired Seth, but theyr’e too chicken**t to own-up during the summer?
what’s new?! seth is rarely on as it is. this is getting tiring and irritating. i wish i could rarely work and make millions.
I think I recall that he just had 3 weeks off last month. I guess this job is just a hobby.
It is NBC pitting the shoe on hold. NOT Seth.
Let’s see now. Colbert is gone. Kimmel, Myers and ‘The Daily Show’ are off until September. And Fallon? He doesn’t count. So who’s left to comment on Trump and his corrupt cronies?
John Oliver & Bill Maher
Ugh! He’s no help!
Colbert took 3 week breaks
Perhaps this is why nobody in mass numbers watches these shows anymore. Their PERSONAL politics killed the Golden Goose.
And you’re one of them!
I don’t think Seth Myers should take 2 months off. too long to wait for it to come back on again. 2 weeks is enough…👍👍🌻🙂
Seth, GET A GUEST HOST TO HELP WHILE YOU’RE OUT. YOU KEEP GOING ON VACATION
WHEN WE NEED YOU THE MOST! COME ON!!!!!
Stephen Colbert
yawn
You are fucking boring!
this is definitely something Kimmel does that others should do…I do wonder how you handle the writing situation though…the substitute host will need a monologue written for them and the regular writers certainly deserve breaks too
NBC = No Body Cares about “Late Night. UNIONS have made nightly television too expensive to produce.
Unions have been working in television production forever! Once again, you Drumpf licking scum show you have literal shit for brains!
With Colbert off the air and both Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers off for the rest of the summer, late night will not be the same. We need comedians who hold a mirror up to those in charge of running (and some would say ruining) our country. Late night comedians have always done this, even Johnny Carson. I just hope we still have a country left to comment on by the time these two come back on the air.
Good grief he will be missed!!!