(via Deadline)

Rather than find someone else from the UK to take over their 12:30AM slot, CBS is looking into following up Stephen Colbert’s Late Show with, surprise surprise, a reboot of a popular series from years ago. This one will supposedly be the Comedy Central hit @midnight where three comedians went head-to-head to see who was the funniest (or best at word play) in satirizing the Internet that day. Chris Hardwick hosted hundreds and hundreds of episodes of @midnight as well as making one of Twitter’s most popular hashtags #hashtagwars in the original series run.

Other than that Hardwick won’t really be involved in this iteration, should it get a greenlight, and that Colbert himself will EP this reboot, there are no other details of what this iteration of @midnight will be or who might host it or what sort of contestants will play. It would spell the end of decades of The Late Late Show and would make NBC the only network with two late night talk shows back-to-back. Overall, it follows the trend of TV shrinking due to cutthroat write-offs and cancellations in order to balance the books/budget/etc.

What this will mean or how it will affect the late night landscape and comedy-at-large has yet to be seen, but don’t be surprised if @midnight comes back and ends up saving Twitter from losing users if they choose to do #HashtagWars like they used to.