Comedy Central goes again to sq. one in its efforts to discover a new host for “The Each day Present.”
The Paramount International cable community is contemplating a wider array of candidates to take the reins of this system from earlier emcee Trevor Noah, in keeping with individuals aware of the matter, after having beforehand recognized Hasan Minhaj as a number one risk. The choice seems to return within the wake of a latest report in The New Yorker by which among the supposedly autobiographical tales that Minhaj has utilized in his routines had been discovered to be embellished.
Comedy Central declined to remark, as did WME, the expertise company that represents Minhaj. Comedy Central has by no means confirmed that Minhaj was in line for the place, which was beforehand reported by Selection in August.
The “Each day Present” expertise search comes as most of the nation’s huge late-night TV discuss exhibits are gearing as much as get again to work. Like NBC’s “Tonight Present,” and “Late Night time,” CBS’ “Late Present” and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Stay,” Comedy Central’s “Each day Present” went darkish in Might because of the Hollywood writers strike. Now that the labor dispute has been settled, a lot of TV’s wee-hours packages are coming again on the air. HBO is predicted to broadcast Invoice Maher’s “Actual Time” this Friday and John Oliver’s “Final Week Tonight” on Sunday, with Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers returning to common manufacturing on Monday.
However “Each day Present” faces distinct challenges. Since Noah’s exit in 2022, the present has not had an everyday host and has been relying for an interim interval on a collection of visitors. Minhaj has been one in all a parade of “Each day Present” hopefuls, together with comedians like Chelsea Handler, Leslie Jones, Al Franken, Kal Penn, Marlon Wayans and Sarah Silverman. The present’s forged of contributors, which embody Roy Wooden, Jr., Desi Lydic, Dulce Sloan and Jordan Klepper, have additionally served as substitute hosts.
Minhaj stays within the combine of individuals being thought-about for the function, one in all these individuals says, however executives at Paramount International and Comedy Central are additionally poring over viewers analysis tied to latest visitors. The community may even take a look at out a brand new group of visitor hosts in weeks to return, one in all these individuals says. However the hope is to have a brand new host to level to in time for the beginning of 2024 — nicely earlier than the presidential election later that 12 months.
Late-night discuss exhibits have been a part of the nationwide routine for many years. However latest modifications in the way in which individuals watch their favourite packages are shaking up the relationships the packages have with their viewers. In 2018, seven late night time packages — NBC’s “Tonight” and “Late Night time,” CBS’ “Late Present” and “Late Late Present,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Stay,” Comedy Central’s “Each day Present” and NBC’s “Saturday Night time Stay” — drew greater than $698 million in promoting in 2018, in keeping with Vivvix, a tracker of advert spending. By 2022, that whole got here to $412.7 million — a drop of roughly 41% over 5 years.
The longer the packages keep off the air, the larger the danger that viewers will begin new habits or uncover different selections for midnight distraction..
CBS faces an identical late-night problem. The community hopes to switch its “The Late Late Present,” most just lately hosted by James Corden, with a revival of the Comedy Central late-night recreation present “@midnight.” However the writers strike — and one nonetheless occurring led by actors — has slowed these plans. CBS executives are stated to nonetheless be contemplating expertise and inspecting viewers analysis, in keeping with one individual aware of the matter. This individual thinks CBS wish to launch the brand new present by the beginning of 2024. A CBS spokesman declined to touch upon plans for the brand new present.
