The Daily Show is currently going through a lineup of guest hosts as it continues to search for a permanent one.
05.10.2023 - 15:01 / variety.com
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Roy Wood Jr., a longtime contributor to Comedy Central‘s “Daily Show,” will not return to the late-night program when it returns to production, the latest wrinkle to develop at the long-running show as executives continue to hunt for a successor to Trevor Noah. “I can’t come up with Plan B is while still working with Plan A,” the comedian told NPR, noting he doesn’t want to continue as one of the show’s cadre of correspondents while someone else is being considered for the top role. “The job of correspondent…it’s not really one where you can juggle multiple things.
[And] I think eight years is a good run,” he said. His exit spotlights complications at the venerable program as Comedy Central broadens its search for a new lead figure. Noah abruptly announced his exit in late 2022 in front of a live audience that had come to see a the taping of a new episode.
Comedy Central has relied on guest hosts ever since — until the show had to go dark due to the Hollywood writers strike. The Paramount Global network had settled on Hasan Minhaj as a leading candidate for the job, but then appears to have reversed its decision after that comic — who had guest hosted along with candidates such as Chelsea Handler, Marlon Wayans, Kal Penn and Sarah Silverman — after a New Yorker report described ways in which Minhaj had embellished some of his autobiographical comedy routines. “Daily Show” has been through similar tumult in the past.
The Daily Show is currently going through a lineup of guest hosts as it continues to search for a permanent one.
Rolling Stones.But that apparently does not include camera rolls.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music News arrived gradually of the Rolling Stones’ special celebration in New York of their new album, “Hackney Diamonds.” First it was a “Rolling Stones event on the evening of Oct. 19,” then it was an album-release party, and then rumors spread that they were going to perform “a couple of songs, but with the boys, you never know” (yes, the person quoted actually called them “the boys”).
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan will soon have to greet ABC’s morning viewers from a decidedly different locale. As part of a larger move by Walt Disney Co., all of the company’s New York properties are slated to move in 2025 to a building in downtown New York in a neighborhood known as Hudson Square. That will include some programs already ensconced in well known studios, such as “GMA” and “Live with Kelly and Mark.” The move won’t isn’t scheduled to take place for some time, but staffers are already coming to grips with how it might affect the program’s standing in TV’s non-stop morning-news wars.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor During the recently ended writers strike, many people who worked on the staffs of TV’s late-night shows wished things would get back to normal. Roy Wood Jr. was surprised to find that he was not one of them.
Roy Wood Jr. surprised everyone by revealing that he was leaving as a correspondent.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Germany’s RTL has acquired royal drama “Maxima” from Beta Film. The show follows the life of Argentinian born Maxima Zorreguieta, who later became Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. The first six-hour season of the show has just wrapped shooting.
A body has been found in the search for a Scots pensioner who had been reported missing over two weeks ago.
The Daily Show is revealing its guest host lineup!
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Sarah Silverman and Leslie Jones will each get another crack at guest-hosting Comedy Central‘s “Daily Show” as the network continues a protracted search for a replacement for Trevor Noah behind the desk of the venerable late-night mainstay. Executives at the network intend to put the program back into production starting Monday, October 16, and will continue to rely on guests as they have since Noah departed late last year. Like other late-night shows, “Daily” has been dark for weeks, owing to the Hollywood writers’ strike.
The Daily Show is back with another group of guest hosts, some more familiar to the show than others.
Skeletal remains have been uncovered in the search for a woman who has been missing for over six years. For the last three days, cops have been investigating the area around the former home of Tina Satchwell, who disappeared in March 2017.
Police have discovered a body in the search for Martin Sinnet, who had been reported missing from East Lothian.
Roy Wood Jr. offered more of an explanation Thursday on why he decided to leave .
Roy Wood Jr., a longtime contributor to Comedy Central’s “Daily Show”, is saying goodbye to the late-night program as executives continue their quest for a successor to former host Trevor Noah.
Roy Wood Jr. is no longer a correspondent on The Daily Show.
Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent on The Daily Show, is exiting after an 8 year tenure.
Roy Wood Jr. said that he is leaving The Daily Show, where he has been a correspondent for eight years.
A team of specialist divers from England are continuing to search for missing grandmother Hazel Nairn who was swept away in the River Don last year.
While earlier reports indicated that Hasan Minhaj was a shoo-in to replace Trevor Noah as new host of “The Daily Show”, the latest indicates that may not be the case.