Introducing Our New Sister Site, LateNighter

A special message from the folks who bring you TV Tattle.

If you love following the business of TV (and as a TV Tattle subscriber, we have a pretty good sense that you do) we think you might like our new sister site, LateNighter.

Launched just last week, LateNighter covers the world of late-night television from the inside out, reporting on breaking news, programming moves, ratings wins, and more.

We're just getting started, but already we've got a great crew of folks writing for the site, including our editor-at-large, former New York Times media reporter Bill Carter, who's written two books about late night, and executive produced CNN's 2020 docuseries “The Story of Late Night.” 

Some of the stories we've posted in the last week include:

Why Late-Night TV Still Matters
Bill Carter explains why we're launching a site about late night TV at a time when many believe it's dying

How a Sydney Sweeney SNL Sketch Became a Focal Point for the Left, the Right, and Hooters
Everyone seems to agree that Saturday Night Live objectified Sydney Sweeney this weekend. Whether that's something to be scorned or celebrated depends on who you ask.

Last Week Tonight and YouTube: It's Complicated
It would be difficult to overstate YouTube's role in the late-night TV of today, so when HBO began imposing a four-day delay in posting clips from Last Week Tonight to the platform, it was news. What wasn't reported at the time is that that's just one piece of HBO's new YouTube strategy for Last Week Tonight.

He Played SNL's Chef Boyardee Opposite Sydney Sweeney: Here's How it Came Together
Character actor James Ciccone tells us how he he ended up appearing in this weekend's Please Don't Destroy sketch on two hours notice, and what ended up on the cutting room floor.

Richard Lewis was a Late Night Favorite—And a Singular Talent
Bill Carter writes about how the late comedian's id endeared him to the comics who hosted late-night shows, especially David Letterman (with whom he guested a whopping 56 times).

Other regular features include daily ratings, nightly monologue round-ups, updated guest lineups for all of the late-night shows, and our weekly SNL screen time report.

You can check it out for yourself at LateNighter.com.

As you may know, these are challenging times to launch a new site, so if you end up liking what we're doing, we hope you'll consider spreading the word, subscribing to the site's free newsletter, and/or following us on Google News (it might give the algorithm a nudge to start surfacing our content there).

In any case, thanks for the indulgence. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.