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Late night\u2019s post-Late Show<\/a> era begins in earnest tonight, with all of the major shows back in originals for the first time since Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u2018s May 21 finale\u2014and one of them already bending the week\u2019s usual rules.<\/p>\n The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and The Daily Show<\/a> return tonight after a one-week break, while Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a> is back after two weeks away. ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>\u2014which kept the lights on last week\u2014is also new this week, though not on its usual Monday-through-Thursday schedule: the show will air a repeat Thursday night and a rare new Friday episode following ABC\u2019s coverage of Game 2 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n CBS\u2019s 11:35 p.m. replacement, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen<\/a>, is the outlier this week, with repeats airing Monday through Thursday and its only new first-run half-hour slated for Friday.<\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s Friday episode will tape Thursday, the same day ABC is scheduled to air a repeat in the show\u2019s usual slot. Kimmel has made similar scheduling moves in past years during NBA Finals week, when ABC\u2019s basketball coverage gives the network a larger-than-usual late-night lead-in.<\/p>\n The move stands out more than it once did. Fridays have been largely dark for broadcast late night since The Tonight Show stopped producing regular Friday originals in 2024<\/a>, shifting to a Monday-through-Thursday production schedule.<\/p>\n There have been exceptions. Fallon aired an atypical new Friday episode May 22<\/a> following NBC\u2019s coverage of Game 3 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, after airing a repeat opposite Colbert\u2019s Late Show finale a night earlier. And since occupying the old Late Show slot, Comics Unleashed has aired first-run half-hour episodes in its 11:35 p.m. slot the last two Fridays.<\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s show has long had a special relationship with the NBA Finals, including its 15-year run of primetime Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night specials, which ended after the Finals start time moved up to 8:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n Kimmel\u2019s scheduled guests Friday night are Johnny Knoxville and\u00a0Inde Navarrette.<\/p>\n Visit\u00a0our lineups area<\/a>\u00a0for updated guest listings for all the late-night shows and\u00a0subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to receive stories like this in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images: NBC, ABC, CBS Late night\u2019s post-Late Show era begins in earnest tonight, with all of the major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[156356,18,117,19,17,7613,8056,60432,27253,38646,8055,50520,128],"class_list":["post-512999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-comics-unleashed","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers","tag-nba","tag-the-daily-show","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}