A One-Night Shift in the Late-Night Wars
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For the first time since televisionâs late-night shows returned to the air last week, David Letterman was able to nose out Jay Leno in the ratings. It was just for one show, Monday night, and Mr. Lettermanâs lead was not sizable, but Mr. Leno had won the first three nights. Their competition resumed last Wednesday, when most of the late-night hosts came back after supporting the writersâ strike for two months. Mr. Leno is working without his writing staff, which is still on strike against his âTonight Showâ on NBC, while Mr. Letterman, above, was able to return with writers to his CBS show because of a separate deal his production company made with the Writers Guild of America. Mr. Letterman has also been able to book the normal roster of movie-star guests; on Monday night he had Tom Hanks, while Mr. Leno had the upstart Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. In the overnight ratings, measuring the countryâs 65 largest cities, Mr. Letterman had a 4 rating on Monday to Mr. Lenoâs 3.8. (Each point is worth 787,659 households.) But in their showsâ first half-hour, when Mr. Leno is performing a monologue over the opposition of the writersâ guild, he still beat Mr. Letterman, with a 4.5 rating to a 4.3. CBSâs thin victory margin continued on the 12:35 a.m. shows, where Craig Ferguson enjoyed a rare ratings victory over NBCâs Conan OâBrien, with a 1.9 rating to a 1.8 for Mr. OâBrien.
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The silhouettes that roar through the Baghdad twilight are sleeker than the helicopters of an earlier time. The wind brings dust, not drenching monsoons. The river snaking seaward is called Tigris, not Mekong. And this war&#039;s not fought to the wail of Jimi Hendrix&#039;s guitar.
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No more "go pills": The military wants special lights to keep pilots awake. Otherwise, the brass will just breed the need to sleep out of 'em. In Danger Room.
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SCHERTZ, Tex. The night wind pushes Don Larsen's green robe against his lanky frame. A circle of torches lights his face. "The old gods are standing near!" calls a retired Army intelligence officer. "To watch the turning of the year!" replies the wife of a soldier wounded in Iraq. "What night is this?" calls a former fighter pilot. ...
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that Americans have encountered since the Vietnam War.
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The storied rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman takes a new twist on Wednesday when the two stars of U.S. late-night television return to the air two months into a bitter strike by TV and film writers.
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HOLLYWOOD -- In the dizzyingly fast-paced world of network television, careers are reshaped in a day by executive fiat. In late-night television, however, a change was announced Monday that will take place at a stunningly glacial rate.
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New York offers one of the worldâs great comedy bargains, the chance to be part of the audience for the late-night shows watched by millions, free. But the price for those free seats is time.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- I was surprised by the relative lack of hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of latenight television.
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This past week the headlines in the news fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Each news story added another dimension to the emerging picture of war policy that is increasingly costly and incompetent.
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Well past midnight, Les Miles wanted to make one more stop.
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It was "The Late Show with David Letterman" &#151; in a city far from home. Letterman and his crew put on a Christmas Eve show for Marines in Iraq on Friday.
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Two gatherings in the nation's capital help point up the difference between theorizing about war--and fighting one.
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A conflict is no longer quite so unthinkable. Here's how the U.S. would fight such a war - and the huge price it would have to pay to win it
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Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart all plan returns to late-night television the next two weeks, but aside from their familiar faces, viewers may not recognize much.
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There&#39;s been much night-vision hype and a lot of huff and puff about this week&#39;s US assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. But perhaps a more accurate, if accidental, assessment was in the
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In a revelation that should give late-night comedians two or three days&#39; worth of snark fodder, the headlines this morning startled us with the news that the world&#39;s