CBS plans game show for late-night spot
When late-night host James Corden leaves his post this spring, CBS reportedly will replace his “The Late Late Show” with a reboot of the game show “@midnight.”
The broadcast network is said to be launching a revival of the cable-channel game show with the help of “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, who is on board as executive producer, according to trade publications Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
The show “@midnight,” like Colbert, hails from Comedy Central. The game show debuted on the cable network in 2013 and aired about 600 episodes before ending its run in August 2017 following a mutual decision by Comedy Central, host and executive producer Chris Hardwick and production company Funny or Die.
The reboot reportedly will land in “The Late Late Show’s” 12:30 a.m. time slot. The maneuver, Variety said, would cut costs and revive the programming concept controlled by the network’s parent company, Paramount Global.
Hardwick of “Nerdist” fame hosted the program, which won two Emmys for creative achievement in interactive media social TV experience. The game show posed Internet-themed questions to three guest comedians, who competed for points by riffing on the most interesting or absurd social media moments of the day.
Corden announced in April that he would be signing off of “The Late Late Show” to pursue other projects.
Streisand memoir set for publication
Two-time Oscar winner Barbra Streisand announced Wednesday that her official autobiography is finally getting a release date.
The “A Star Is Born” singer and “Funny Girl” star will publish “My Name Is Barbra” on Nov. 7, she said in an announcement on social media revealing the book’s cover — featuring her 1967 portrait by late photojournalist Steve Schapiro. The memoir’s title calls back to the showbiz legend’s first TV special, an Emmy Award-winning program that featured a medley of her hit songs “People,” “Happy Days Are Here Again” and “My Man.”
Penguin Random House’s Viking imprint will publish the 80-year-old superstar’s long-gestating project. The 1,040-page book is being billed as a “frank, funny, opinionated and charming” account of her life befitting her luminous and lengthy career.
Streisand has received 10 Grammy Awards, including the lifetime achievement and the legend awards in the 1990s. She made history with her 1983 film “Yentl,” becoming the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. Streisand won her Oscars for acting in “Funny Girl” (1968) and for writing the “Evergreen” theme song for the 1976 version of “A Star Is Born.”
She also earned two more Emmy Awards for her TV specials “Barbra: The Concert” (1994) and “Timeless: Live in Concert” (2001). She won a special Tony Award in 1980 after being nominated twice before for her roles in “I Can Get It for You Wholesale” and the stage version of “Funny Girl.”
Several unauthorized biographies about the star have been published but Streisand, who is fiercely protective of her image, never gave them her stamp of approval.