And it has the Olympics Closing Ceremony as lead-in to premiere
Tony Maglio | May 6, 2021 @ 10:00 AM
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NBC ordered new competition “Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide,” which will be hosted by Bobby Moynihan and Ron Funches. The 10-episode game show is getting the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony as its series-premiere lead-in.
“Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide” will kick off its special two-night premiere on Sunday, Aug. 8 at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT. The following night it will transition to its regular time slot of Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The silly show promises to be “a fresh take on Wham-O’s iconic 1960s outdoor game.”
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A Little Late With Lilly Singh: NBC s Late-Night Series to End With Season 2 TVLine 6/05/2021
NBC is about to have a vacancy on its late-night schedule:
A Little Late With Lilly Singh will end with its current second season, TVLine has learned. The final episode will air Thursday, June 3 at 1:35 am/12:35c.
A Little Late premiered in September 2019, filling the gap left by
Last Call With Carson Daly, which ended a few months earlier after 17 years on the air. An NBC insider tells TVLine that the network is rethinking its 1:30 am time slot and plans to move away from original talk programming.
Over his final two years (2017-18 and 2018-19) of an impressive 2,000-episode run that began in 2002, Daly averaged 765,000 over viewers per night (er, morning), according to Nielsen.
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Singh’s run over the subsequent two years (2019-20 and 2020-21) shed one-quarter of Carson’s audience, averaging 574,000 total viewers.
What’s worse is that Singh didn’t start out so bad. Daly drew 726,000 viewers per night over his final season; Season 1 of “A Little Late With Lilly Singh” averaged 660,000. (All numbers in this story include one week of delayed viewing where available.)
That 9% decline wasn’t so bad considering the generally downward trend of linear TV ratings. But then Singh’s show fell off a cliff, sinking another 27% from Season 1 to Season 2 (to date).
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The show, which airs at 1:30 am ET, is hosted by
Lilly Singh one of the only woman to helm a late night program.
Samantha Bee currently hosts her late night show
Full Frontal once a week on TBS, while
Amber Ruffin has her own show on NBC’s Peacock.
While the move strips diversity from an already overwhelmingly White and male scene, the show’s 1:30 a.m. start time undoubtedly did it no favors providing Singh limited opportunities to entice new viewers. The pandemic may also be responsible for the show’s dwindling success as it led to an extended hiatus between the first and second seasons.