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“The Grace Helbig Show” Will Forego Traditional Talk Show Couch and More

March 12, 2015

The talk show tradition has been firmly established on American television and part of that tradition is having a couch or couches where a host and a guest can chat intimately in front of a live audience.

The Grace Helbig Show, that’s coming soon to E!, is going to forget about that and go, based on this promo, for something that’s more akin to a mix of Last Call with Carson Daly, The Pete Holmes Show, and Insomniac with Dave Attell. Sound intriguing? Of course it does.

Grace Helbig has amassed quite the following online, mostly by doing everything with an unstoppable DIY spirit and unflappable charm and she’s going to translate that to an actual talk show on TV. So, she’ll do interviews as remotes in different locations like they do on Last Call, be driving around to various places and hanging out like Insomniac, and have a sort of joyful exuberance that Pete Holmes had when he was hosting.

It will be nice to see a complete retuning of the talk show model without it being at all a parody of it.

We’ll get to see if all of these elements play out in the series premiere next month on Fri. Apr. 3rd at 10:30PM E!

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Won’t Premiere Until Sept. 8th

January 12, 2015

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“Late Show With Stephen Colbert” will debut on Sept. 8, CBS announces. Colbert’s comment below: pic.twitter.com/IPJX0xBD2a

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff)

January 12, 2015

So, one of the very final dates in the beginning of this new era of late night is set. Sept. 8th, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will premiere on CBS at 11:30PM (via @ditzkoff).

You read that right. We all have to wait nine months until Colbert resumes his role as a host on the legendary Late Show. As he has said himself, "I have nine months to make a show, just like a baby. So first, I should find out how you make a baby.“

That’s a long time, especially considering what’s going to be happening in the meantime.

For one, David Letterman is signing off from The Late Show on May 20th.

James Corden, who will be following Colbert with The Late Late Show, starts his hosting duties several months earlier on Mar. 23rd.

…and…

Larry Wilmore will be starting next week on Jan. 19th with The Nightly Show at Comedy Central.

…then…

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns for its second season Feb 8th at HBO.

…then…

Grace Helbig will be headlining her own talk show on E! ostensibly replacing Chelsea Handler starting in April, though it will air in primetime.

…then…

Conan O’Brien will tape a week of episodes at Comic Con this summer, which should be one of the most fun things to happen this year in late night.

The only other thing that is going to happen in the late night realm after Colbert takes over in the latter part of 2015 is the aforementioned Chelsea Handler doing a talk show on Netflix in 2016.

All of this is in addition to Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, and Jon Stewart, continuing to build their late night empires both live on TV and online.

So, with all of those dates set, that leaves four months at CBS where 11:30PM is vacant. Apparently, there will be reruns (via THR) playing in that slot during that time leading in Corden. All other late night programs will be more than happy to play against reruns at 11:30PM at CBS.

What interests us is what exactly will Colbert be up to in these nine months. The format for his tenure at The Late Show is set to be much more traditional than The Colbert Report, which, we think, wouldn’t necessarily need nine months of pre-production and retooling.

Is there something else that Colbert is up to for most of this year? Maybe it’s just some well deserved time off?

Either way, we definitely want 2015 to go way faster now.

E!’s Next Comedy Talk Show To Be Hosted by Grace Helbig

January 5, 2015

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(via Deadline)

Chelsea Handler and Chelsea Lately have left E!, but, apparently, E! is not done with talk shows hosted by comedians. They have tapped Internet sensation Grace Helbig to host her own traditional format talk show though she’ll be ditching the traditional sound stage for real world locations.

Maybe it’ll be a more upbeat, positive PG-13 version of Insomniac with Dave Attell with celebrity guests? This Daily Grace talk show will air in primetime, for now, rather than go against the boys club in late night or tangle with daytime, which is almost entirely filled by female hosts.

With that all being said, it’s very intriguing to see that E!’s next talk show will be hosted by someone that is arguably the antithesis, tone-wise, of Handler.

Variety Picks 10 Comics to Watch for 2014

June 20, 2014

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Variety Picks 10 Comics to Watch for 2014

Ron Funches, Cristela Alonzo, Pete Davidson, Fortune Feimster, Nathan Fielder, Grace Helbig, The Lucas Brothers, Greg Poehler, Lena Waithe, and Harvard Sailing Team are Variety’s picks this year for what to watch in comedy.

Congratulations to all these folks and, like the list suggests, you can currently (or very soon) watch many of these acts on TV or, in Funches case, the side of many buses.