Can this alternate universe also be one where Craig Ferguson takes over for Dave upon his retirement?
Assuming late night looks like this: 11:35 - CBS - The Late Show with Craig Ferguson - NBC - The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - ABC - Jimmy Kimmel Live 12:35 - CBS - The Late Late Show with James Corden* - NBC - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon * Assuming CBS keeps the program alive once CraigyFerg transitions to 11:35, the question of who fills this slot has a lot to do with who ends up owning the show. If CBS takes over the timeslot, as they did in our reality, then presumably Corden is still tapped to take the spot. If Ferguson reaches the same sort of deal with CBS that Dave had, and he owns the timeslot, I'd assume he'd go for a more out-there standup, probably a woman, probably a POC. Let's also assume that Jon Stewart leaves TDS when he did IRL, but the Colbert Report continues in some form beyond the IRL end date, since there's no longer a hard start date for him at CBS. Given that, I'd say Colbert's name is in the mix to take over for Conan, as well as some former SNLers (Kenan, maybe?) and possibly Leslie Jones or someone like Yvette Nicole Brown (not a standup necessarily, but a recognizable name, a known quantity in comedy and one of those 'can do it all' types). On Monday, February 15, 2021 at 4:36:27 AM UTC-5 Dave Sikula wrote: > As tempting as it would be to think Lorne would just plug Fallon in, I > have to think they'd want to think out of the box and give it to someone > like the vile Lily Singh or even Leslie Jones. She's old enough that she > wouldn't stay more than a few years, and even though I wouldn't watch the > show on a bet, it'd certainly be both a shakeup and huge on social media. > > --Dave Sikula > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d4baae64-375c-434b-b9b0-b7f49a025908n%40googlegroups.com.
