David Letterman’s Emmy-nominated Netflix series will be back in short order… with a curiously short order.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction is set to return for its fifth season with just two episodes. A just-released trailer (below) reveals Letterman’s two guests will be musician Miley Cyrus and former basketball player Charles Barkley.
The two-episode season breaks Netflix’s usual release pattern for the series, and comes after an extended break.
Most recently, Letterman released a standalone episode of the show in April, in which the host interviewed comedian John Mulaney. Prior to that, the show’s most recent episode was a December 2022 special with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman debuted in January 2018, releasing 7 episodes across the season, each a few weeks apart.
Season 2 consisted of 5 episodes all released at once, with another bonus episode dropping a month later.
A special aired in 2019, followed by a 4-episode third season in 2020, and a 6-episode fourth season in 2022. Both of those seasons stuck with the all-episodes-at-once release schedule.
One wonders if Mulaney’s episode was initially intended to be part of this Season 5 release, but pushed up to help generate buzz for the comedian’s limited-run talk series, Everybody’s in L.A.
Both episodes of My Next Guest Season 5 hit Netflix on June 12. The series has been nominated for five Emmy Awards since its debut.
This is a wonderful show. I have thoroughly enjoyed the guests and the host! I hope he continues.