Late Night finally catches up with the last 150 days of crazy

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Oh, to be a duck whose best friend is a giant floof:

Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Late night returned in full last night. While Bill Maher and John Oliver both returned to their HBO late-night shows this weekend, the network late-night guys all came back last night after being off the air for over 150 days.

Stephen Colbert remarked on what a crazy summer it was to be off. I mean, just missing the Lauren Boebert story alone … “It’s been a long time since our last Late Show, we looked at the calendar today and I believe that we have been off the air for 154 indictments.”

Jimmy Kimmel revealed the one time he considered crossing the picket line: “Every time something happened in the news, I would get texts asking me if I was bummed we didn’t have a show that night. Mostly, I was fine but the one that really got me was when they booked Trump in Georgia and he self-reported his weight at 215 pounds. I almost crossed the picket line for that.” 

Jimmy Fallon joked on The Tonight Show about how excited he was to be back: “I am so excited to be here. I am so excited. Seriously. I’m more excited than a guy seeing Beetlejuice with Lauren Boebert. I’m more excited than a Jets fan during the first three plays of the season. Everyone’s excited, today my dad called me up to say he can finally watch Kimmel again.”

Finally, Seth Meyers returned with an episode-long “A Closer Look” but not before expressing gratitude for being back, to his writers, and to the WGA negotiating committee who made a fair deal, as well as to the audience and his family for putting up with him for the past five months: “I’ll never forget the day this summer where my seven-year-old came up to me and said not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today I’m not gonna care what he does tomorrow.”

Oh great: Netflix and Discovery+ are both planning on raising their prices.

OK, this is pretty funny.

Loki returns later this week, and is getting its own special Lucky Charms cereal box? I do love me some Lucky Charms, and I do love me some Tom Hiddleston …

The Boys are always at it:

The Complete and Utter History of Britain, a comedy series from the Monty Python geniuses Michael Palin and Terry Jones that only ran for six episodes, has been found in the ITV archives after being mislabeled for decades. The long-lost show was a precursor to Monty Python.

Yesterday was the opening day of Former President Fucklehead’s civil fraud trial in New York, which is being presided over by a judge instead of a jury because if you don’t pay your lawyers, the good lawyers who know that you have to request a jury trial won’t represent you and you’re stuck using a dumb but pretty face you saw on Fox News once. (Pay your lawyers, kids.) ANYWAY. Cameras were briefly allowed into the courtroom before the actual trial began and the internets remain undefeated:

#MeToo

Dan Harmon has finally spoken about what happened between him and Justin Roiland on Rick & Morty, and about the allegations against Roiland:

“The easiest thing for me to say about Justin has been nothing. Easy because he isolated so well and easy because I’m nobody’s first choice as a judge of anything or anyone. This is where I’d love to change the subject to myself, to what a piece of crap I’ve been my whole public life,” he says. “I would feel so safe and comfortable making this about me, but that trick is worthless here and dangerous to others. It’s other people’s safety and comfort that got damaged while I obsessed over a cartoon’s quality. Trust has now been violated between countless people and a show designed to please them. I’m frustrated, ashamed and heartbroken that a lot of hard work, joy and passion can be leveraged to exploit and harm strangers.”

Donna Motsinger is the most recent woman to sue Bill Cosby, accusing him of drugging and raping her in 1972.

Kevin Spacey has been sued by a male massage therapist in New York who said he made inappropriate sexual advances towards him.

San Antonio Spurs player Joshua Primo was suspended for four games after being accused of exposing himself to multiple women.

A former Warner Brothers writer-producer Andrew Kreisberg, who was fired (with a $10 million payout) in 2017 after being accused of inappropriate behavior on the sets of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and other DC superhero TV dramas, has been recently arrested for assaulting a woman at a bar mitzvah.

A second U.K. police department is investigating Russell Brand on allegations that he stalked and harassed a woman for years in Thames Valley.

Over in the United Kingdom, actor-turned broadcaster, Laurence Fox, went on GB News’ Dan Wootton’s show and made a number of disgusting comments about female journalist Ava Evans. He called her a “‘little woman’ and claiming nobody would want to have sex with a ‘feminist 4.0’ ‘pathetic and embarrassing’ woman like her.” Wootton smirked and nodded throughout Fox’s rant.

GB News immediately suspended Fox, who went on social media to say, “I stand by every word of what I said.” A few hours later, they also suspended Wootton who himself has been accused of sexual misconduct and blackmail over the course of years.

Another GB News presenter and right-wing commentator, Calvin Robinson, has also been suspended after he came to Wootton’s defense online.

LOL.

The U.K.’s Office of Communication has launched an investigation into GB News as a result.

Also in the U.K., David Williams, a former Britain’s Got Talent judge has sued Freemantle after being fired from the show. Last November, transcripts of him making sexualized comments about contestants were leaked:

In the leaked transcripts, which came from three auditions filmed in London in 2020, Walliams was reportedly recorded calling one contestant, a senior citizen, a “cunt” and said of another contestant, who is female: “She thinks you want to fuck her, but you don’t,” adding she had given him a “boner” before it “shrivelled up inside my body.” The Guardian claimed to have reviewed the transcripts.

Good luck with that lawsuit, pal.

Renewals

In Development

Casting News

  • Emily O’Brien, who already plays Gwen von Leuschner on Days of Our Lives on Peacock is taking over the role of Theresa Donovan from Jen Lilley. DRAMA.
  • Orlando Bloom has joined the voice cast of Peppa Pig Wedding Party Special on Nickelodeon.

Mark Your Calendars

  • All the Light We Cannot See will premiere on Netflix on November 2.
  • Black Cake will debut on Hulu on November 1.
  • Fellow Travelers premieres on Paramount+ with Showtime on October 27 and on Showtime on October 29.
  • Messi Meets America debuts on Apple TV+ on October 11.
  • Crush will debut on Paramount+ on October 17.
  • Navajo Police: Class 57 premieres on HBO on October 17.
  • The Graham Norton Show returns on BBC America on October 5.
  • Pluto will premiere on Netflix on October 26.

WATCH THIS

Frontline: The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball: Somehow I missed this in my weekly roundup, but the 2017 Astros are getting the Frontline treatment, and how the cheating scandal changed baseball. All I’m saying is that the Astros weren’t the only ones doing it, and Jose Altuve deserves to have his name cleared. 9 p.m., PBS

Found: A public relations specialist makes it her mission to keep attention on the missing people that the authorities can’t or won’t find. Series premiere. 9 p.m., NBC

FBI: True: From the creators of FBI, comes this (originally Canadian) series in which actual FBI agents discuss their investigations. Series premiere. 8 p.m., CBS

Star Wars: Ahsoka: Series finale. Disney+

Only Murders in the Building: The killer (or killers!) exposed. Season finale. Hulu

Make Me Scream: Tempestt Bledsoe and Darryl M. Bell host this competitive special where teams of celebrities face scares while trying to not scream. Premiere. Prime Video

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Taraji P. Henson, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Jelly Roll
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Tracy Morgan, Chris Hayes, Craig Reynolds
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: John Oliver, boygenius
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kathy Griffin, Luenell, Glen Hansard
  • Watch What Happens Live: Angie Katsanevas, Bowen Yang

TUES. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC Dancing with the Stars
(new)		 The Golden Bachelor
(repeat)
CBS Big Brother
(new)		 FBI: True
(new)		 FBI
(repeat)
CW Inside the NFL
(new)		 The Swarm
(new)		 Local
FOX Name That Tune
(new)		 9-1-1: Lone Star
(repeat)		 News/Local
NBC America’s Got Talent
(new)		 Found
(new)

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