On the west coast, Stewart and Colbert shows were on at 8:00 and 8:30. But, most people with cable or satellite have a DVR set up with it – so what time slot the show is officially on, doesn’t really matter. Its what’s being recorded and watched that counts (and the cable, satellite companies have that data – and so does Hulu.) Unless of course, they want to count only that audience who can’t fast forward through the commercials!
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When they’re talking about ratings, they’re generally talking about the straight-up ‘who’s watching now?’ Nielsens. Yes, they have the data on who’s recording what, but since what they’re actually marketing is the commercials, the people who fast forward through them aren’t the people they really give a shit about.
I know – this was why I dreaded him making the move to CBS. Worst fears realized that he would ape the same tired format as his competitors – when he should have deconstructed the format.
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Should’ve cancelled Rob Lowe’s show, but he’s not the Black guy, huh?
Terrible and idiotic decision by Comedy Central
Other than sports I fail to understand why people actually care what damned time a program is originally aired. I think everything I make time to view is on DVR. If it’s a commercial production just being able to fast forward through ads is worth waiting. If there are no commercials I still record it. When I meet people that say 9PM on a Tuesday has a specific meaning to them as far as their TV viewing I have to shake my head.
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The commercial networks care because they want you to watch their commercials. That’s their entire business model. They can’t stop you from fast forwarding through the ads when you DVR it, but they’re not counting you as ‘eyeballs sold to the advertisers’.
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Going to miss him, but I agree with some commentators above that Larry did not have the strongest supporting cast. They did fool with the format and segments a number of times to no avail…
As far as TDS goes, Trevor is not Jon, nobody is Jon, but Trevor is still excellent and brings a very different viewpoint. The difference is that he is not as effective an interviewer and he is yet to have his “Tucker Carlson Moment”…
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That being the key . Whereas Stewart and Colbert were must see didn’t want to miss them kind of programing, the new Daily show and Wilmore were meh. If you caught them or a clip on the web OK but not laugh out loud funny want to watch every night
Agreed, he was much better in the first segment, the skits needed to go, but the panel should have been re-worked. too many poor guests, but mainly, 2/3 would be his staff, and they aren’t really up to the job (mostly). Shame they didn’t try to re-tool it and get a better booker for the panels.
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Saw it a couple times and didn’t like it.
Then again, I started to get burned out on Stewart and Colbert as the world got worse and worse.
I watched it every night. For a while it was getting better and better, but as Trevor Noah got more confident, he surpassed in humor and quality. I liked Wilmore and many of his female cast, but increasingly the tone became more and more Hillary bashing by some of the men. It became a bitch session, excuse the expression, instead of really being that funny. But I will miss it.
I like Trevor’s TDS better and better. Wilmore’s discussions went downhill into very negative and anti-Hillary bitch sessions. I still watch Colbert but I’m usually disappointed at his watered down MOR humor now.
TDS has gotten better and better. I really enjoy it now. Trevor provides a fresh perspective.
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Definitely, their Trump guy is way better than Colbert’s lame cartoon.
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I agree with everything you said except I do enjoy Trevor Noah. Colbert’s new show is usually unwatchable and the anti-Hillary tone on Wilmore’s was what turned me off big-time.
i like wilmore, but his show just wasn’t very good. he spend too much time with the round table segments which always were full of people i didn’t give a crap about and who didn’t know what they were talking about. way too many celebrities and too few experts. bill maher does a much better job of mixing 1 celeb per show with a bunch of politicians, policy wonks and historians or whatever to get a good discussion going where viewers can actually come away with some valuable information. instead half the show was neither funny nor informative. hopefully they’ll replace it with another political oriented show that’s just better. i miss the colbert show even though he’s on cbs.
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I like Wilmore a lot but the segment with the panel discussion needed improvement. Too bad they don’t keep him on till after the election.
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I agree. I always ended up clicking off when I saw that once again the panel discussions were going to rely on predictable and not very funny commentary.
Still, I counted on watching this show as part of my early morning routine. Larry’s demeanor cracks me up. I wonder if the surveys count online viewers.
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Lowe’s show was canceled in March.
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Gave it many tries, but the show leaned too heavily on the politics pole of the poltical–entertainment spectrum, and I’m getting sick of applause line politics of preaching to the choir from both echo chambers.
Looking at the comments of Comedy Central, the failing of the show was inability to connect with “young males”. In otherwords, they were specifically trying to appeal to Bernie Bros, which I imagine probably alienated a lot of the core TDS w/ Jon Stewart viewers, who are used to turning into the TDS’s “glory years” under Dubya to escape from the DERP that pervaded the day.