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 television daypart.
Wait, a new site dedicated to late-night TV… now? Our editor-at-large Bill Carter explains.
Meet our team
Guest editor Matt Webb Mitovich comes to us fresh off a 15-year run at TVLine, where he was a founding editor. His relationship with late-night TV dates back to SNL’s first years (which as a rugrat he had to sneak downstairs to the den and watch) and the ascendance of David Letterman. Matt recently celebrated the nine-year anniversary of being in the audience for David S. Pumpkins’ SNL debut. Read Matt’s posts⟶
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. Read Bill’s posts⟶
Nick Riccardo’s love of late night was forged from SNL’s Best of Commercial Parodies DVD and episodes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His writing about television and pop culture has been featured on Splitsider, Screener TV, and elsewhere. He also writes and produces talk programming for television, podcasts, and digital channels. Read Nick’s posts⟶
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. Read Jed’s posts⟶
Humanity commitment
We are committed to creating content that’s worth your time. Every story starts and ends with our team. We are currently experimenting with using AI tools to help with proofreading and polish, but every sentence reflects a human voice and editorial decision. We believe technology should support human creativity—not replace it.
