When Colbert Report Ends... What then?

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My wife and I watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report routinely. They have been a "part of our complete breakfast" for as long as Colbert has been on air, and Daily Show little before that as well... for almost the entire length of our relationship, in fact.
Now that Colbert is about to go into network late night, my wife is concerned that the content of his new program won't satisfy with the same caliber of creative insight and humor we've come to expect and appreciate from him. I can't say I really disagree.

If those numbers he had up in the title sequence have any baring... I think we've only got 59 or 60 episodes left. (60 is divisible by 4 shows each week, but there is a Monday holiday that might account for the discrepancy.) Roughly 15 more weeks of shows.

So what, if anything, will Com-Cent offer as a replacement?
Has anyone seen any legitimate news on their plans?

What might work? I know MovieBob has a few ideas he kicked around in an article back in April.

Personally... I might enjoy if they just gave Daily Show a full hour... but after this long they kind of have their formula figured out, so I doubt that is on the table.
Oliver jumped ship for Last Week Tonight on HBO and as it turns out is a tremendous show on its own, but it's only one episode a week.

As I think on dismal potential options, I wonder if we're just going to have to live without a decent filler for that and just use that half-hour to catch up on other series we've been trying to re-watch (like every Star Trek ever.) We still have to finish Cosmos, so that would fill the space for two or three weeks.

Is anyone else so regular a viewer that this will impact them?
 

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In all likelihood there will be something bad on Comedy Central at 11:30pm EST once Colbert Report ends. I kind of liked one of the shows that preceded it in 'Tough Crowd with Collin Quinn'. Or at least I liked that show in theory. Most of the guests where fine but Collin Quinn just isn't funny nor is he an especially good host. That said I think that shows format could be successfully revived for this time slot.
 

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Mcoffey said:
They've already got a new show lined up. The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/10/showbiz/larry-wilmore-stephen-colbert-minority-report/

He's pretty funny on The Daily Show. He'll do well there.
Thanks for that news! I had not heard anything about this.

It's certainly a better plan than that awful platform they gave Lewis Black with "Root Of All Evil."
I can see giving that a chance, but I hope it's not so singular in its message (or the routine Wilmore already does on Daily) that it loses itself on the audience they have while reaching to a broader one.
The attached press release on that link says Stewart maintains executive producer involvement on it, so I have to imagine he's got the right team put together to make it work.
Colbert was untested at his start too, and that worked out pretty well.

Ok... yeah.. I'm starting to feel this. There's solid potential here. Fingers crossed.