Sykes, Lopez Bring New Colors to Late-Night TV »
Posted By 2sidestoeverything 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Arts & EntertainmentLOS ANGELES (AP) — In the blink of an eye, late-night TV is shifting from a white men's club to the start of a rainbow coalition.
Wanda Sykes' weekly Fox comedy show debuts 11 p.m. EST Saturday, followed by George Lopez's four-night-a-week talk show on TBS, starting 11 p.m. EST Monday. They join "The Mo'Nique Show" on BET.
Lopez is counting on an audience hungry for something different — as in the first Hispanic to host a nighttime talk show on a major network, cable or broadcast.
Sykes is the first black late-night host since the late 1990s, when celebrities Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Keenan Ivory Wayans tried and failed to follow in Arsenio Hall's successful 1989-94 footsteps.
"There's a huge percentage of people not watching late-night TV at all," Lopez said, figuring that the shows headlined by hosts including David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel draw from roughly the same audience pool.
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Late night is changing and hopefully everyone will enjoy the old and the new.
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