Jimmy Fallon has joined fellow late-night hosts in switching to new programming Monday through Thursday only.
Tonight's show The show will be reduced to four new episodes per week, with Jimmy Fallon joining his fellow late-night hosts by airing reruns on Fridays.
While Stephen Colbert Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Seth Meyers Everyone has stopped producing new Friday night episodes in recent years, Tonight's show The channel remained an outlier, airing five nights of new content (though Fallon's Friday episodes were often taped on Thursdays).
However, after 60 years of five-night-a-week episodes, Tonight's show The broadcast will now be moved to Mondays through Thursdays only, with Friday nights reserved for repeat episodes, diverse NBC's recent cost-cutting in the era of cable cuts has so far included removing the Seth Meyers Band and canceling the late-night 1:35 a.m. show entirely, reports say.
“It’s the reality of streaming and the shrinking market — streaming is eating that up, YouTube is eating that up,” Eli Jani, Myers’ 8G Band keyboardist and co-music director, said in June. “Streaming doesn’t make money either. So budgets everywhere have been cut and cut and cut.”
(Similarly, CBS replaced James Corden's late-night show with the game show After midnight.)
while Tonight's show New episodes aired last week, and Friday's show was a repeat, a trend that began when Fallon's show aired this summer. However, Fallon and Tonight's show He's not going anywhere for at least the next four years, as the host renewed his contract with NBC this summer to remain at the helm of The Tonight Show through 2028,
