Hollywood Press Tells Colbert and Kimmel to Double Down on Politics as Late Night Ratings Collapse

Hollywood Press Tells Colbert and Kimmel to Double Down on Politics as Late Night Ratings Collapse

As Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers return from their summer hiatus, media outlets are working overtime to assure readers that late-night TV’s struggles have nothing to do with politics. Late Nighter, a trade site focused on the format, ran a feature this week framing the looming season as a test of the medium itself rather than the hosts’ increasingly partisan material. The post Hollywood Press Tells Colbert and Kimm…