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?
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?