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Late Show With Stephen Colbert Will Premiere September 8th
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 12, 2015
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Stephen Colbert signed off from The Colbert Report last month—and now he's getting ready to take over the Late Show on CBS. It's just been announced that his first show will air Tuesday, September 8th, giving him some time to get out of character. Colbert said, "I have nine months to make a show, just like a baby. So first, I should find out how you make a baby."
According to EW, CBS head Nina Tassler explained at the Television Critics Association gathering that the new Late Show team—which is made up of much of the Colbert Report team—has "actually just moved into their offices... They’ve just started working. He will have music on the show. He said, ‘I have to be entertaining as my guests,’ so he’s going to have guests on the show. Whether or not he’s going to start with a monologue, he’s working on that right now. Clearly he knows that he’s introducing himself, the real Stephen Colbert to his audience. He’s really putting a lot of attention on making sure that the show is still topical and still relevant.” Also addressing what the show will look like, Tassler said:
"Part of the opportunity of being in business with brilliant talent like Stephen Colbert is really letting him do what he wants to do," she insisted. "We're really sitting back and waiting for him to come to us and say what he has in mind. He's a real student of media. He knows the format better than anybody. It's really a discovery process for him. It's still in development. I think there'll be parts that will be traditional in some contexts, and then there will be things he's going to want to try to do."
Remember—no one knew what to make of Colbert's White House Correspondents Dinner appearance, but now it's legend:
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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