Studio 8G will be dark this week and next as NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers breaks early for Memorial Day starting tonight, May 18.
Meyers’ absence happens to coincide with one of the most eventful weeks in late-night TV history, as CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, cancelled 10 months ago, rolls out its final four episodes. The Late Show‘s end begins tonight (with a “Worst of” episode that is “Not a Clip Show”), and ends Thursday with what is only being described as “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Series Finale.”
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, meanwhile, will be new this week, though with tiny tweaks. As LateNighter was first to report, Colbert’s series finale won’t face any fresh competition, with both Fallon and Kimmel respectfully opting to air repeats Thursday. The Tonight Show instead will air an atypically new Friday episode on May 22.
Late Night with Seth Meyers will return with new episodes Monday, June 1.
Meyers was dark last Monday, along with both Kimmel and Fallon, as they and John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight joined Colbert on The Late Show for a well-watched reunion of the Strike Force Five podcast team. Following that taping, the quintet of late-night peers recorded a new, 13th episode of their podcast, which had been a product of the summer 2023 WGA strike.
Last Tuesday, Meyers did a stand-up set at NBC Universal’s annual upfront presentation to ad buyers, where his targets included CBS and the lawsuit settlement with President Trump that arguably set in motion The Late Show‘s cancellation.
“NBC was the No. 1 broadcast television network for the 2025-2026 season,” Meyers noted. “After over a decade, we have taken down CBS. Well, the Ellisons did, but I’d like to think we helped.”
“Seriously, what’s going on over there [at CBS/Paramount Skydance]?” he asked. “They’re so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next year’s Survivor is in the Strait of Hormuz.”
He also quipped, “CBS did not hold an upfront presentation this year because at CBS ‘up front’ just describes how they paid Trump to drop the lawsuit.”
Meyers’ most recent contract extension with NBC will see him sitting behind the Late Night desk through at least 2028.
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