{"id":16642,"date":"2017-06-29T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16642"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:41:51","slug":"the-apoliticized-late-night-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/06\/29\/the-apoliticized-late-night-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"the apoliticized late night &#8220;wars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/tv\/news\/stephen-colbert-late-show-summer-friday-format-1202481317\/\">A new hybrid approach for Stephen Colbert in running re-runs on Friday<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Later Letterman phoned Fridays in by taping two shows earlier in the week. \u00c2\u00a0But Colbert, while apparently wanting to phone something in, wants to retain the topicality that is the show.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings wise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jimmy-fallon-pulled-ahead-of-stephen-colbert-in-the-late-night-ratings-war-for-the-first-time-in-5-months-2017-6\">this does what?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Stephen Colbert has\u00c2\u00a0been beating Jimmy Fallon in late-night show ratings for the past five months \u00e2\u20ac\u201d until last week.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221; finally managed to surpass &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8221; by 34,000 viewers last week,\u00c2\u00a0according to The Hollywood Reporter.\u00c2\u00a0These are Fallon&#8217;s highest ratings since he filmed a series of episodes\u00c2\u00a0in Orlando that aired\u00c2\u00a0in April to celebrate the opening of his\u00c2\u00a0new ride\u00c2\u00a0at the Universal Orlando Resort.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert jumped ahead of Jimmy Fallon based on that one factor: President Donald Trump. \u00c2\u00a0I suppose the &#8220;Resistance&#8221; &#8482; is, in the broad swarth of the audience that must make up some kind of late night network television audience, fading a tad. \u00c2\u00a0Passions fade. \u00c2\u00a0Trump will be mockable on a political basis for the forseeable future, so the need to catch Colbert on that basis slides &#8212; and Trump will continue as well to be mockable on that the personal celebrity basis but there you will find Fallon and Colbert doing that. \u00c2\u00a0And what was mockable yesterday for Colbert to dig at will be mockable today and tomorrow, or something new will hit, so we might as well check out &#8230; Jimmy Fallon riding a Jimmy Fallon ride in an Orlando theme park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new hybrid approach for Stephen Colbert in running re-runs on Friday. \u00c2\u00a0Later Letterman phoned Fridays in by taping two shows earlier in the week. \u00c2\u00a0But Colbert, while apparently wanting to phone something in, wants to retain the topicality that is the show. Ratings wise, this does what? Stephen Colbert has\u00c2\u00a0been beating Jimmy Fallon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16643,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16642\/revisions\/16643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}