Late Show with David Letterman (Part 2)

Thanks Steve.

I thought it was a bit odd they hadn't announced the Thursday and Friday shows yet.

I will try and get tickets for the Tuesday show as it might be a bit rushed to go to the Monday show as I have plans for 8pm.
 
Late Night with David Letterman was an NBC production or maybe a Worldwide Pants/NBC co-production.

I think part of what made the CBS deal so appealing was that they were going to allow his producation comapny to have full ownership and simply produce the show FOR CBS not with.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

However i don't know who the distributors of The Late Show, if thats Viacom then there might still be a chance it will appear on CBS UK channels.
 
Just been watching some Letterman shows. :)

Watched the Jerry Seinfeld episode from March in glorious HD as that's all that was available on the usual sources I think.

Also watched the Claire Danes episode from January.

I'm slowly catching up... slowly!

Also something I noticed on the Jerry Seinfeld episode - the Late Show marquee has been changed since my visit in November - they've added a "featuring Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra" bit under the main "Late Show" text:

www.lateshowuk.com/images/lsmarquee_march2010.jpg
 
Surely they could've asked Dave himself to provide his own voice for the dub. I would've still
been noticeable as an over-dub, but could've sounded better with Dave's actual voice!


Meanwhile ... I'm absolutely sick of this when I'm downloading episodes. There is absolutely
no need for it whatsoever. Whoever does it is not only wasting their own time and effort,
but is also wasting the time of those that download the file. It's utterly pointless!

What's wrong with one single downloadable avi or mkv file?
 
This Week's Guests

Monday, September 20

President Bill Clinton
(2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting)

Chromeo
(CD, "Business Casual")

Tuesday, September 21

Simon Baker
(The Mentalist)

Snooki
(Jersey Shore)

Maroon 5
(CD, "HanRAB All Over")

Wednesday, September 22

Joaquin Phoenix
(I'm Still Here)

Tom Jones
(CD, "Praise & Blame")

Thursday, September 23

James Franco
(Howl)

Sofia Vergara
(Modern Family)

Shakira

Friday, September 24

Shia LaBeouf
(Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)

Comedian Brian Regan

Jimmy Eat World
(CD, "Invented")
 
Remember though that Friday's shows are always recorded on a Monday, so that show will have been before Dave 'confessed' anything

Actually Larry David was one of the guests and he eluded a bit towarRAB Daves confession in their interview!! So, Fridays show must have been taped after Thursdays show!!!
 
I highly doubt Jonathon Ross show will work in the US. It's his edgy marmite style that has lead to his downfall - if it pissed us Brits off there isn't a chance in hell of the Americans tolerating it.

I feel sorry for Conan, NBC are treating him like sh*t. If i were him I'd go elsewhere, but where? the market is over-flowing as it.
 
This Week's Guests
Monday, August 30
Jessica Alba
(Machete)
Jimmie Walker
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses
(CD, "Junky Star")
Tuesday, August 31
Michael Douglas
(Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Merle Haggard
(CD, "I Am What I Am")
Wednesday, September 1
Donald Trump
(The Apprentice)
Bill McKibben
(Book, "Earth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet")
Thursday, September 2
Will Arnett
(Running Wilde)
Comedian Tommy Johnagin
Karen Elson
(CD, "The Ghost Who Walks")
 
Didn't Dave use to tape a show on Thanksgiving? He use to do a quiz on the Thanksgiving parade and we always saw shots of the crew eating dinner with Dave dressed as a pilgrim.

Perhaps this year he wants to spend more time with his family!
 
So we have garbage like Ross, Brand and Alan Carr on tele yet they don't bother showing Dave Letterman.

Bonkers, :eek:
 
It'll be interesting to hear what Dave has to say in the opening monologues and the at the desk
from next week onwarRAB now The Tonight Show is going back to how it was before June 2009.

I'm certain Conan is likely to be a guest on the Late Show as soon as he's contractually allowed
to appear on TV again. As I recall, his severance contract from NBC says he's not allowed to be
an interviewee on TV until 3 months after his final edition of The Tonight Show first aired.

I'm guessing he'll be on perhaps during the last week in April or the first week in May.
 
The New York Post has a wonderful piece today :rolleyes:;

"CBS has got to dump David Letterman. Right now.

If the Tiffany Network continues to coddle the crotchety king of late night, it will rightly be known as the destination of choice for any girl who jiggles, giggles and puts out repeatedly for a man old enough to be her father.

Dave must go. If not, CBS will have lost any remaining shred of credibility, not to mention common decency.

By his own admission, the married Letterman has bedded any number of women working under His Highness. Problem is, he doesn't seem to know precisely how many. And brass has long looked the other way.

Letterman's dream life came crashing to earth when an ex-boyfriend of one of his conquests allegedly attempted to extort him for $2 million to keep the affairs quiet. This development certainly makes Dave a victim -- a victim of his own recklessness.

The very livelihooRAB of the young women who caught Dave's fancy depend on making Letterman happy. But Letterman, 62, certainly knew what he was doing.

This is a full-grown adult who made a grown-up choice. And he chose to sleep with junior staffers rather than take the standard route and walk to the corner bar to conduct a sad, ordinary affair. Instead, he's working out some twisted Freudian issues on dewy-eyed underlings.

Letterman is guilty of cheating on the woman he eventually married after a 20-year relationship and trashing the trust of their 6-year-old son, Harry. This was not one little slip-up, but a deviant pattern. And when Letterman got lazy, egotistical and sloppy, he became a ticking time bomb -- a walking, breathing, sexual-harassment lawsuit waiting to happen.

The man who has been famously stalked in the past intentionally made himself into stalker-bait. Worse, he became the punch line in one of his own Monica Lewinsky jokes, which Dave told with such glee not so long ago.

A former staffer at "Late Show" described to me a "toxic" atmosphere in the studio. She said women flirt mightily with the man. Sometimes, it works in their favor.

Everyone inside the program knows what it takes to get ahead.

In recent years, Dave's comedic chops have taken on a mean streak, as well. He has shown a wicked hatred of Republicans, which reached a climax when he joked about Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter, Willow, getting "knocked up" in the seventh inning of a Yankee game by Alex Rodriguez.

CBS brass could have taken that gag as a sign that Letterman was slipping. Instead, bosses chose to ignore it.

The network rescued Letterman from a future of obscurity in 1993, when NBC denied him his dream promotion as host of the "Tonight" show. CBS dusted off the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown for Dave and made him rich beyond his wildest dreams.

But Letterman became the ratings champ of his 11:35 p.m. time slot this year only by default -- after NBC stupidly replaced Jay Leno with the dreadful Conan O'Brien. Who knows if Dave will remain a winner?

Dave has repeatedly whined publicly about CBS's failure to bow down to him. Now, the network has a chance to strike back at this ungrateful wretch.

Americans would not stand for this kind of behavior from a government official. Should a jock act in a like manner, his morals clause would likely kick in.

Letterman's contract expires at the end of next year. I count on CBS to pull Letterman off the air, then kick him to the curb.

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy."

I don't think The Onion could write anything funnier. :D

Cheers

Paul B.
 
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