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David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show (hollywoodreporter.com)
Lesley Goldberg, writing for The Hollywood Reporter: Two years after signing off CBS' The Late Show, David Letterman is returning to the small screen. The longest-serving host in U.S. late-night TV history is set to topline a new talk show for Netflix. The untitled six-episode series will premiere in 2018. Unlike The Late Show, each hourlong episode of the Netflix series will be prerecorded and feature Letterman conducting longform conversations with a singular guest as well as exploring topics on his own -- outside of the studio. A guest list has not yet been revealed. "I feel excited and lucky to be working on this project for Netflix. Here's what I have learned, if you retire to spend more time with your family, check with your family first. Thanks for watching, drive safely," Letterman said.
It's a waste of cable bandwidth that could be replaced by something worthwhile.
Since WHEN is David Letterman Slashdot material?
Why?
I think my parents used to think he was funny back in the 80s.
I have a 2000" TV, you insensitive clod!
Signed,
Frank.
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...has been overheard plotting ways to outmaneuver him and grab the slot.
We are definitely at a post-television market, where we are so saturated with so many shows that the bottom is starting to fall out of the market. Every once has-been television personality seems to be inking deals with netflix/amazon/facebook/youtube/whoever, and the contract ink is flowing like cheap booze in a college town dive bar...
"if you retire to spend more time with your family, check with your family first."
#DeleteFacebook
Actress Lauren Hutton had a one-on-one show in the mid-90's called "Lauren Hutton And...", and it was very good. It was more like a casual conversation without contrived softball questions, similar maybe to "Fresh Air" by Terry Gross. Unfortunately, I was one of only a few who liked it so it only lasted one season.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Content like this would be more compelling with live streams. You can always go back and watch earlier aired content but there is something compelling about watching events like this as they happen.
appeals to hackers in mom's basement
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Who never found Letterman funny? I tried and tried to see what my friends saw in him (they all thought he was the be all and end all of comedy), but for whatever reason I never 'got it'. Maybe it was just his style of humor, but other than his top ten lists (which I admit were funny most of the time) most of his jokes just fell flat with me. It always seemed like he would make a random statement, look over to Paul (who would mumble something unintelligible), then Letterman would laugh like he just told the punchline and then stare at the camera for a bit making odd faces while the audience burst into laughter for a minute or two.
Not that I liked Leno or anything (please stop telegraphing the punchline for 5 min while you set up a painfully unfunny joke), but at least what he was doing seemed like an attempt at humor to me. Letterman always seemed to be an experiment to simulate a new form of humor that wasn't working.
So, is he saying he indirectly saying that he is a huge pain in the ass to be around and the family wants him out of the house?
Thats what I'm reading...
That's a relief! We were running short of people spending all of their airtime bashing deplorables and Trump. I mean, there's almost nobody doing that anymore, so somebody has to pick up the slack.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The guy gave up late night because his ratings were consistently low. Do we need on demand talk shows? Probably not.
I gave up on Dave...all that money changed him. He turned into a sex crazed liberal moron. I guess living in the "Hamptons" (north east USA) does that to people. With him being on Netflicks, he'll be able to cuss, call anyone he wants anything he wants...other than a curiosity, I can't see people paying extra, if that is what happens, for this crap. Just retire and GO AWAY.
I'd prefer Craig Ferguson. He had some bloody good shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Perhaps the only late night talk show I miss.
Of course not all the shows where good but I liked them.
he's not going back to CBS to take over his old time slot and asked colbert to start after midnight
Just say "Trump" where you used to say "Bush", Dave! You'll do great!
Is it really surprising that all posters in this thread who claim to hate David Letterman, say he wasn't funny, etc, are all conservatives ?
Suck it up, buthurt little conservative snowflakes. Freedom of speach is for EVERYONE, not just for you.
Sounds like they didn't like him either.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
It's related to internet kiddie porn....the old dirtbag did joke about raping Sarah Palin's then-underage daughter.
(No, not the one who famously had an out-of-wedlock kid... the younger one )
If you once liked Letterman like I did (I watched him a lot back in the 80's and early 90's), do yourself a favor and go troll youtube for a couple of his older 70's and 80's appearances with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; you'll see Dave's ALWAYS been a miserable, paranoid, sociopath. There's enough of that in the world already, you don't need to watch him for more of it.
Netflix has a shorter memory than a fruit-fly I guess.
As my brain worked its way back into my head over the subsequent decades, I realize the popular guests he had on at the time and the slot he was in were the reasons I was watching his show. Looking back on his catalog he's always been a miserable s.o.b.
I was gonna keep my subscription having learned Disney was going to drop Netflix (Disney just ruins kids and steals money from families). But now I have to cancel now that this has-been country hating old gap tooth fart is gonna be on.
And that's a bummer.
Tempest - your point is well taken. What happens is a LOT of humor is like religion or art. Recognition of it serves as a loci around which a Resource Sharing Group (Mennonites, Matisse enthusiasts, Letterman fans) can self organize. Letterman was extremely influential in entertainment and thus benefited from the aggregate loci of Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, and every other celeb who loved him. A very long run for any locus and its orbiting Resource Sharing Groups also results in inside jokes. Look at the inside jokes of Seinfeld, South Park or Star Trek Fans (Dammit Jim!) and hell, in particular Joyceans who celebrate Bloomsday. Can't get my head around that one. But also I never met a Joycean I wanted to pick up and have a one night stand with, so little incentive. So yeah, he WAS funny -- enough to have a network hit show for 3 decades or so. Amplified by mass and momentum of 3 decades or so. With humor easily lost on those who were comparative outsiders who don't *watercooler "Did You See Letterman last night!?" ------- *watercooler - a communal hydration machine predating single-serving bottled water by several decades. Operated prior to widespread internet adoption, during the Golden Age of Television around which coworkers exchanged, in person, social information now known today as 'Memes'. For final high point of activity see "O.J. Simpson Trial (1990's)