Late Show (CBS TV series)
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| Created by | David Letterman |
| Presented by |
David Letterman (1993–2015) Stephen Colbert (2015–present) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 4,263 (under Letterman) 316 (under Colbert) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Ed Sullivan Theater New York, New York |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 62 min. (with commercials) |
| Production company(s) |
Worldwide Pants Incorporated (1993–2015) Spartina Productions (2015–present) CBS Productions (1993–2006) CBS Paramount Television (2006–2009) CBS Television Studios (2009–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | August 30, 1993 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by |
The Pat Sajak Show CBS Late Night |
| Related shows |
The Late Late Show The David Letterman Show Late Night with David Letterman The Colbert Report |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety show on CBS. It first aired in August 1993 with host David Letterman, who previously hosted Late Night with David Letterman on NBC from 1982 to 1993. Letterman's iteration of the program ran until his retirement on May 20, 2015. Comedian Stephen Colbert, best known for his roles on Comedy Central programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, assumed hosting duties in September. The show originates from the Ed Sullivan Theater in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York, and airs live to tape in most U.S. markets at 11:35 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 10:35 in the Central and Mountain time zones.
CBS had previously attempted late-night talk shows with The Merv Griffin Show (1969–1972) and The Pat Sajak Show (1989–1990) but were unable to compete with NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and were cancelled due to poor ratings. For most of the 20 years preceding Late Show, CBS's late night fare consisted of movies, re-runs, imported Canadian dramas and specialty programming packaged under the titles CBS Late Night and Crimetime After Primetime and broadcast to middling ratings, competing against The Tonight Show and, in its last years, the upstart success of a syndicated series, The Arsenio Hall Show, which began airing in 1988.
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