With two weeks to go before reruns of After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson leave CBS, the show has quietly been removed from Paramount+.
Up until this week, full episodes of the show’s entire second season, which ceased production in June, had been available for streaming on the service.
It would appear that Paramount’s streaming rights to the show expired at the start of the new television season. (Similarly, Paramount+ is currently streaming only in-season episodes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, of which there have only been two to date.)
After Midnight‘s entire two-season run remains on YouTube in clip form—at least for the time being—and there’s reason to believe it will stay there. After Midnight’s time-period predecessor, The Late Late Show with James Corden, also left Paramount+ after it went off the air in 2023, but the show’s YouTube channel remains active.
Full episodes of After Midnight are expected to continue airing on CBS until Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen takes over the timeslot on September 22. As LateNighter has reported, Comics Unleashed is producing 132 new episodes for what it’s calling its twentieth season. The half-hour panel show, which originally launched in 2006, will air two back-to-back episodes each weeknight at 12:37 a.m. ET/PT.
The return of Comics Unleashed is the product of an unusual time-buy deal with CBS, in which Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group leases the slot rather than the network commissioning the series directly. Allen returns as executive producer alongside Carolyn Folks and Jennifer Lucas, joined this season by comedian Jodi Miller. Episodes will also be available to stream live on Paramount+ through local CBS affiliate feeds, though it remains to be seen whether the show will be available on-demand after broadcast.
Wait, doesn’t Paramount (via CBS) *own* both After Midnight and The Late Show?
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Taylor comes out on top every time. I look forward to seeing more of her. Smart comedy.
That show was so dumb. It’s just comedians reading bad pre-written “jokes” about social media posts. I watched the first two episodes and never watched again.