Letterman wasn’t Consulted on CBS’ Stephen Colbert Pick: ‘I Always Thought Jon Stewart would have been a Good Choice’
Letterman wasn’t consulted on CBS’ Stephen Colbert pick: “I always thought Jon Stewart would have been a good choice,” then Colbert
In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, David Letterman says he’s not leaving late-night because Kimmel and Fallon pushed him out. He’s retiring because he’s 68. Letterman also says he had nothing to do with the picking of his successor. “No,” he says. “Not my show. When we sign off, we’re out of business with CBS. I always thought Jon Stewart would have been a good choice. And then Stephen. And then I thought, well, maybe this will be a good opportunity to put a black person on, and it would be a good opportunity to put a woman on. Because there are certainly a lot of very funny women that have television shows everywhere. So that would have made sense to me as well.” Did that bother him? “Yeah, I guess so,” he says. “Just as a courtesy, maybe somebody would say: ‘You know, we’re kicking around some names. Do you have any thoughts here?’ But it doesn’t bother me now.” PLUS: Letterman says CBS should’ve fired him for his sex scandal.
Letterman’s experience singing and dancing on TV with Michael Keaton in 1978 is why he turned down hosting SNL
In his final Letterman appearance, Keaton reminded Dave of the time they sang and danced in the opening number for Mary Tyler Moore’s late ’70s variety show. The experience made Letterman realize he hated doing variety shows, and so he turned down all offers to host Saturday Night Live.
Hulu will pay nearly big bucks to stream Seinfeld reruns
The deal to be announced Wednesday morning will call for Hulu to pay Sony Pictures TV reportedly $700,000 per episode.
Japan’s prime minister confesses: I’m a “hard-core” fan of House of Cards
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted he was a fan of the Netflix series at Tuesday’s White House state dinner in honor of Abe, which was attended by Shonda Rhimes and George Takei. “Barack,” Abe told the president, “you are an enthusiastic fan of sushi. And last but not least, I have to confess something about myself, too. I am one of the hard core fans of the American TV drama House of Cards. But I’d like to draw your attention to my commitment that I am not going to show this House of Cards to my fellow minister Deputy Prime Minister in Japan.”
Is Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. going back to being a puppet of the Marvel movies?
“Having so many recent developments turn out to be set-up for Age of Ultron is just frustrating,” says Alan Sepinwall. “It says that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. can never really have its own identity or tell its own stories, because it always has to be operating on some level in service to the movies, whether that’s introducing characters and concepts that can be used in the films, or having to reset its own status quo to accommodate what’s happened in the latest movie.”
Report: Brian Williams won’t go down without a fight
A source tells Page Six that the NBC News anchor is “threatening to make it really ugly — worse than Ann Curry.”
Watch Amy Schumer mock One Direction
Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup” is Inside Amy Schumer‘s response to One Direction’s What Makes You Beautiful.
Bethenny Frankel says her failed daytime talk show was “way more constricting — it was like directing traffic”
“It was way more filtered and edited than I like to be . . . I have a mouth for nighttime and I can’t be shackled,” she says.
