LateNighter covers the world of late-night television from the inside out. We report on breaking news, programming moves, personnel changes, ratings wins, and more, providing informed perspective on what’s happening across this dynamic daypart.
Wait, a new site dedicated to late-night TV… now? Our editor-at-large Bill Carter explains.
Meet our team
No reporter is more closely associated with late-night TV than Bill Carter. Over a 26 year career at the New York Times, he chronicled the daypart’s many machinations from the Carson era onward. His best-selling 1994 book, The Late Shift, spawned an HBO original movie of the same name and a 2010 follow-up, The War For Late Night. He also executive produced the 2020 CNN docuseries The Story of Late Night and hosted its companion podcast. We’re thrilled he’s back on the beat as LateNighter’s editor-at-large.
Senior News Editor Mike Roe joins LateNighter from Hollywood trade TheWrap. His other bylines include Vanity Fair, the BBC, and NPR station LAist (KPCC), where he was on staff for more than a decade. He’s the author of The 30 Rock Book, and also narrated its audiobook. MIke’s dad sparked his late-night addiction by letting him stay up too late to watch SNL and The Tonight Show. Mike followed that passion as a writer for live L.A. talk shows and sketch teams. He will forever lament never getting to write for The Colbert Report.
Jed Rosenzweig’s passion for late-night television can be traced back to his teenage years when he was a regular on the standby ticket line for Saturday Night Live, but it was his own 12 year-old son’s obsession with present-day SNL that inspired this site. Jed cut his teeth on the web working at Yahoo! in its heyday, where he led the site’s movie and TV verticals through a period of explosive growth. Today he publishes LateNighter and the subscription newsletter TV Tattle.
Humanity commitment
We are committed to creating content that’s worth your time. Our articles are written by human beings (not AI), and we strive for accuracy and integrity in our reporting. When we fall short, we hope you’ll let us know and give us the chance to make it right.
