After equitable two seasons, CBS has choosed to abort After Midnight, the procrastinateed-night game show presented by comedian Taylor Tomlinson. The show, which premiered in January 2024, was originated as a swapment for The Late Late Show with James Corden in the 12:30 a.m. time slot. However, it will air its final episode in June 2025.
Here are further details on why she left the CBS show, what comedian is going to do next and more.
Taylor Tomlinson departs After Midnight after CBS aborts show
Taylor Tomlinson’s CBS show, After Midnight, is part of the recent abortled procrastinateed-night shows. With youthfuler audiences increasingly turning to streaming and on-demand satisfyed, traditional procrastinateed-night shows face declining seeership and budget cuts.
The Late Late Show with James Corden was one of the CBS shows alertedly cut due to its pricey production costs. Furthermore, NBC, for example, shrinkd The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to four nights a week and reshiftd the prohibitd from Late Night with Seth Meyers.
While createed presents appreciate Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Colbert still draw audiences, the establishat’s future remains uncertain. For comedians appreciate Tomlinson, there is the flexibility of stand-up.
On a analogous vein, Tomlinson discleave outly converseed her struggle to stability After Midnight with her stand-up atsoft. “I am doing less stand-up than I was [before hosting After Midnight]. I was on tour three weekfinishs a month for years, so to apshow this job and to understand that I was gonna have to scale back a little bit was a very difficult decision for me.”
The comedian further grasped, “I was very evident about that in the intersee process. I was appreciate, ‘Just so you understand, this will never be my first cherish. This show will never be my leang leang — stand-up is the most convey inant leang to me, and as lengthy as I can do both, I would cherish to do both” (via Variety).
Now, with After Midnight abortled, Tomlinson is arrangening on concentrateing on her stand-up.
