CBS ‘Late Show’ plans a two-year Colbert retrospective for Sept 18
Starz takes ‘Monster’ to US
LOS ANGELES, Sept 12, (RTRS): Fans of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” will get to walk down Memory Lane on Sept 18, when the CBS late-night program toasts its host’s two years on the air with a retrospective.
Few additional details were available about the content of the program, but a person familiar with the situation confirmed the broadcast would celebrate Colbert’s two years at the helm of the wee-hours franchise. Colbert started his run on Sept 8, 2015, taking over the seat from the previous occupant, David Letterman.
The broadcast is expected to feature clips from the past two years, during which Colbert has emerged as a leading comedic foil to President Donald Trump. Colbert has also worked to engage thought leaders, politicians and corporate chiefs, landing interviews with former Vice-President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook, among others.
The show will serve another function: Colbert will host this coming Sunday’s broadcast of the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS. As such, the retrospective will afford the host and his staff time to get back to New York before restarting production of original episodes.
The season premiere of Disney Channel’s series “Andi Mack” airs on Friday, Oct 27 at 8:00 pm ET. Created and executive produced by writer Terri Minsky (“Lizzie McGuire”), the series stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Lilan Bowden, Lauren Tom, Joshua Rush,
Sofia Wylie, and Asher Angel. Recurring
stars include Stoney Westmoreland, Emily
Skinner, and Trent Garrett. Season 2 continues to follow the lives of Andi, her friends, and family.
USA Network announced its fall schedule, including the air date of the new series “Damnation” on Tuesday, Nov 7 at 10:00 pm The co-production from Universal Cable Productions and Netflix follows a bloody battle set in the 1930s as the fight between the rich and poor escalates. The rest of the schedule is as follows: “Mr Robot” Season 3 premieres Wednesday, Oct 11:00 at 10 pm, “Chrisley Knows Best” premieres Tuesday, Sept 12 at 10:00 pm, “According to Chrisley” premieres Tuesday, Sept 12 at 10:30 pm, and “The Cromarties” premieres Thursday, Nov 9 at 10:30 pm.
The new AT&T Audience Network comedies “Loudermilk” and “Hit the Road” have gotten new premiere dates. “Hit the Road”, which stars Jason Alexander as the leader of struggling family band, will now premiere on Oct 17 at 10 pm ET/PT. The series premiere of “Loudermilk”, in which
Ron Livingston plays a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor, will follow immediately after at 10:30.
Jane Seymour is joining the cast of Pop’s scripted comedy, “Let’s Get Physical”. The aerobics comedy is set to premiere on Pop TV next year. Seymour stars as Janet Force, the mother of the series protagonist, Joe Force (Matt Jones). Janet is a former Miss Texas Beauty Pageant winner who is obsessed with maintaining the family fitness legacy and anti-aging remedies. Created by
Ben Newmark, Dan Newmark, and Connor Pritchard, “Let’s Get Physical” centers on slacker Joe Force who makes a reluctant comeback in the fitness industry after his dad unexpectedly passes away and wills his son the broken-down family gym. Chris
Diamantopoulos and AnnaLynne McCord round out the cast.
US cable viewers will get a fresh helping of Nordic Noir after Starz acquired Norwegian serial killer drama “Monster”.
The series hails from Norwegian pubcaster NRK’s drama department and centers on the discovery of a mass grave in a small Norwegian town. A local policewoman and a special investigator from the city are paired up to investigate the grisly crime.
Starz will not put the series on the main Starz channel, and in linear TV it will go out on one the other nets in its offering. The channel operator has been buying in volume for its non-linear services and “Monster” will be on its on-demand and TV Everywhere services. The seven-part drama was created by Hans Christian Storrosten and director
Anne Sewitsky. Jorgen Johansson (“The Killing”), widely credited with helping to create the visual tone for the Nordic Noir genre, is lead cinematographer.
Starz has premium pay-TV rights for the US. The series’ executive producer, Lasse
Greve Alsos (“Mammon”) from NRK’s in-house drama department, said: “Starz’s commitment to ‘Monster’ for the US market is a significant landmark for Norwegian drama and revives Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous words ‘Look to Norway’”.
DRG is selling the series and has struck several international deals. SBS in Australia, Canal+ in France, Spike in Russia have all bought the show. MTG-owned streaming platform Viaplay has it in Scandinavia.
Scott Kirkpatrick, DRG’s SVP of sales for North and South America, said: “With some of Norway’s most established and respected talent behind the scenes, coupled with fresh new on-screen talent and a darker twist on the more usual Nordic Noir content, ‘Monster’ has been piquing interest ever since it went into production”.
The series will launch on NRK next month. The broadcaster has retained the free TV rights in Scandinavia, and elsewhere in the region it will be on NRK’s pubcast counterparts DR in Denmark and SVT in Sweden.