CBS was losing $20+ million a year producing “The Late Late Show with James Corden”

8 years is a long time. Corden certainly made a silk purse of a sow's ear. Considering how annoying he is, he was spectacularly successful.

Thank God. I hope I never have to look at him again.

He wore out his welcome fast.

Who is replacing him?

I never quite understood how he was ‘ordained’ a star. It was like someone decided to pluck a mediocre at best minor Brit celeb and repackage for a gullible American audience who fall for anyone with an accent.

Loved him in Cats.

[Quote]Who is replacing him?

No one. The show is cancelled. Did he think that we were so stupid that we wouldn't figure it out? He and his egg yolk eating wife can disappear into anonymity. A buh-bye.

He had won a Tony. He wasn’t a nobody.

CBS isn't only saving money here. All but the title role stars on "Bob Hearts Abishola," have been lowered to Recurring . CBS claims this will allow 20-plus cast members to find other work, while still being with the show.

any love for this old British show on DL?

Why is Corden so hated? I thought his show was funny…although I guess there’s some talk that he’s a jerk.

Colbert is taking over the slot for some new political satire crap. Seth's ratings are going to soar.

Hope there's a Cats 2 in his future

I loved Colbert's old satire show - hope he's bringing back something very similar to his old one. And... I'm especially looking forward to this, if it happens:

"Sony Pictures is looking to bring Craig Ferguson back to late-night TV as soon as Fall 2023. The production house is shopping a new half-hour format starring the former host of The Late Late Show. He’ll unpack the week in TV with friends."

Yes, it was LUSH, R10.

Glad to hear Ferguson is coming back to Late Night. I was surprised that Colbert took Letterman's spot instead of Craig, though I guess he had a lot of momentum at the time with his show on Comedy Central. Still, I would have thought someone would have picked up Ferguson who, to my mind, was a superior host to pretty much any of the guys on now, save (maybe) Kimmel.

Send that asshole Corden back to the UK! Happy to hear that Ferguson is coming back, his show was so much better.

R11 He's considered one of the if not the meanest and cruelest celebrity out there.

R18, and he’s fat.

Corden being a major asshole and diva probably helped too.

R11, he's a known asshole. Not predatory like Ellen, just snide and dismissive of staff and of fans. There is a Reddit AMA post of him that is just brutal for all the people who call him out. It seems to be pretty common knowledge in the industry. My favorite tale of him was when Jimmy Kimmel, obviously well aware of his tendencies, asked him to name one of his cameramen. He couldn't do it, of course.

[quote]My favorite tale of him was when Jimmy Kimmel, obviously well aware of his tendencies, asked him to name one of his cameramen. He couldn't do it, of course.

Not even a specific cameraman — ANY cameraman in the room. Corden tried to laugh it off but he was rattled.

Cordon does have talent - he was pretty amazing in ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS on stage, though you don't want to watch the video version as his performance was best seen from the distance you get in a theater.

But he does seem like the stereotype of the unpleasant comic. I'm sure he was a jerk well before he came to the U.S.

R23 He was. Fighting with Patrick Stewart on stage.

He's not interesting, charming, or funny.

How is he a star? I've seen him "acting" if you want to call it that in a few things - he was terrible.

Why he was paid so much money to be mediocre and an asshat to boot is an example of what's wrong with Hollywood.

I saw him in One Man, Two Guvnors and thought he was wonderful. I was hired to work on a revival of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum he was to star in, directed by Alex Timbers. This was cancelled when he got the talk show. I was disappointed at the time, but I've come to see that I dodged a bullet.

That fat thing?

Corden was a maggot. Now he can maggot on in the country where he was whelped.

A very talented friend worked with Corden on something. Said friend is highly respected for the work he does and works with lots of big name talent.

He said Corden was one miserable SOB and the experience was pretty awful.

Truly one of the most vile celebrities. Begone, you fat cunt.

The lead up to the last show was a bloody over the top hype-a-palooza. Was a three hour prime time “special” really necessary? Good riddance to the biggest asshole on late night tv. I know Letterman once wore that crown but Letterman was actually funny. And innovative. The best bit, which was the Truth or Dare challenge with the vomit inducing food options, was stolen from Jimmy Fallon. Don’t let the door hit your tubby bum on the way out, Blanche.

Did Sir Pat ever do Teletubby's show?

He is a wretched, horrible person

They didn’t even make that much hoopla for David Letterman or Jay Leno. Idk why they did for him. His show lost CBS millions. They’re acting like he had this massive impact.

R10 I LOVE Gavin and Stacy! That’s why I never understood the Cordon hate. He coverages tgat series and was great in it.

He was really good in last year’s Mammaks.

never seen him in anything else, including his talk show

He was never great.

His final episode aired Saturday? After midnight, Friday, right?

One of the most hated people in the world.

Whose cock did he suck to get that gig? He had no presence in the US before it.

R37 no. Thursday night into Friday

I’m sure most of that budget was craft services

R40, the article says Saturday.

When Craig Ferguson hosted the show, he complained regularly about the low budget CBS provided them. They had no band and used library music to play guests and commercials on and off. Their studio was the smallest in Television City and was in horrible shape. It was built as a rehearsal space and was never meant to be used for broadcast. They always had technical problems; one time they did half the show in the dark because the lights shorted out. It wasn't until 2-3 years before Craig left that they gave them a little money to improve the stage and equipment.

I was really surprised when Corden took over because it was like CBS realized they had a show at 12:30 all of a sudden. He got tons of promotion where Craig barely got any. He had a band led by Reggie Watts. If Craig ever got a joke on the Eye Opener with Gayle & Them, Gayle would always roll her eyes and say something along the lines of, "That Craig sure is [italic]different"[/italic] But when Corden was on she would gush, "Oh, James Cordon is so amazing! What a treasure." Meanwhile, Craig's show was original and brilliant while Corden's was a Graham Norton wannabe and had the most irritating regular features imaginable. Carpool Karaoke is the most narcissistic, self-aggrandizing thing I've ever seen on television. And only a tool like Cordon would think it was entertaining to block weekday traffic in Los Angeles to do a musical number.

So long, Corden. Enjoy your well-deserved new reputation as a money loser.

[quote] They didn’t even make that much hoopla for David Letterman or Jay Leno. Idk why they did for him. His show lost CBS millions. They’re acting like he had this massive impact

Maybe they're embarrassed that they made such a stupid mistake hiring and then keeping him as long as they did. Makes CBS looks stupid.

Surely he didn't have the ammo to demand the send off in his negotiations - like they owed him a lot of severence and he was willing to have this shit instead?

R43 wasn't all the mistreatment Dave Letterman's fault?

Craig had some kind of show and one of his first guests was Jay Leno. I always thought that was the middle finger to Dave.

Anyway, maybe Dave didn't own Corden's show like he owned Ferguson's?

I'd love to rake in 4 to 5 million in the first year of an 8 year run because then I could retire as a rich failure.

I liked Carpool Karoke.

The fat fuck is at the Met Gala.

R47 = James Corden

r11 At restaurants he's demanding and abusive to the staff..

Can you imagine?!

He was banned from Balthazar in NYC for being so abusive to the waitstaff!

But then un-banned, right?

Why so expensive? Did they pay the studio audience?

All the Teletubbies have names, r33. What do you suggest for James? I like Wee Dinkee Winkee.

[quote]My favorite tale of him was when Jimmy Kimmel, obviously well aware of his tendencies, asked him to name one of his cameramen. He couldn't do it, of course.

[quote]Not even a specific cameraman — ANY cameraman in the room. Corden tried to laugh it off but he was rattled.

Is this from an appearance one of them made on the other's show? Dying to see this interaction!

The original LA Magazine article that the OP's Insider story quotes is actually a quite interesting look at the state of latenight broadcast TV in 2023.

According to the author's sources, CBS definitely won't be rebooting The Late Late Show with a new host, but instead producing smaller budgeted late night TV.

Bring back Craig Ferguson!

R57, it's going to happen to all TV; Bob Hearts Abishola is only keeping actors who play Bob and Abishola on contract.

Soaps are being shot on a shoe string; everything that happens on Y&R happens in a coffee shop.

Eventually, viewers will drop off b/c there's nothing to watch. The TV business model will implode upon itself.

I canceled all my streaming platforms and I kept Directv streaming; that gives me plenty to watch; I did keep Amazon and I have free apps like Tubi. When White Lotus 3 comes along, I'll sign up for HBO Max or I guess just Max and binge it and then cancel it.

The dream used to be land a sitcom, ride it out for 5 or 7 years and live off residuals. Actors don't have that now.

And forget if a black woman or another minority will take Corden's spot. Now, no one will. The shows are too costly.

How he wasn’t cancelled after his offensive gayface performance in ‘The Prom’ was a complete mystery to me. He played it like the gay equivalent of a minstrel character.

R60 you mean like “comedian” Mateo Lane’s minstrel show?

They really need some color on prime time late night. Sumthin’.

R59, they say the actors on Bob Hearts Abishola had been waiting for this season to negotiate richer long-term deals. Which is typical of shows on that long. That new contract is where they make out.

And now they will get five eps at the old price. I feel for them. TV acting is nowhere near as lucrative as most think (because we hear of the outliers’ salaries… the Friends, BBT and Modern family casts, for example).

When you land a show that sticks, it’s a rare chance to build a decent nest egg to carry you through the fallow years.

TV used to be lucrative. But less people are watching it which is why things are harder (again).

Corden's performance in The Prom was a model of subtlety next to Brooks Ashmankas' in the Broadway show, even given the difference between stage and screen acting.

[quote]Is this from an appearance one of them made on the other's show? Dying to see this interaction!

It was on Corden's late night US show. Kimmel cleaved his head quite cleanly from his body, the same way he decapitated Jay Leno after the Conan fiasco.

The writer's strike may send him back to England early.

He's already gone

[quote]CBS was losing $20+ million a year producing “The Late Late Show with James Corden”

Was that the catering bill?

He reminds me of the people who suck ass to those above them or with power and treat those "under" them like shit. Could be wrong

Besides being an asshole, his main problem is that he's a *liar*. And likely badly advised by his team. Letterman's early ratings were never hurt by the occasional caustic comment or dressing down of a moronic guest. You don't actually have to be nice. But you DO need at least a measure of authenticity. Once viewers catch a whiff of bullshit and realize you aren't even *close* to who you're pretending to be (see ELLEN).....it's over. It's hard to recover from that kind of deceit. Corden did a major overhauling of his 'persona' before coming to the States and settled on the fakest, most obsequious, fawning act ever. He had his head so far up guests asses it was like watching a fucking pig root for truffles. No one is surprised this didn't work out. He had some juice early on because there was some novelty appeal but he's been limping by for years now. Enjoy the glue factory James.

R56, some Brits do not mingle with the staff.

I wonder how many times he sucked off Les Moonves. Corden must have jumped for joy when he was sacked.

Hideous closet case. Not surprised to learn he was losing money for the network. He is dead to me after trashing Balthazar waiters who tried in vain to please him. Hopefully he will choke on a meatball sandwich.

Actually, he should try the ham.

Kimmel's no prize; that idiotic stunt where he laid down at the emmys running that woman from Abbott Elementary's Emmy win.

it wasn't funny.

he's not funny.

He’s still trying to make it seem like he chose to leave

The fact he was even cast in THE PROM indicates he must have an extremely powerful agent. It was one of the worst screen performances I’ve ever seen. Below low-budget soap opera levels. And they had him in scenes with Meryl!!! It was embarrassing for everyone involved

Why does this asshole have a career? Who are his fans?

^ he’s fat, useless, and unattractive…so anyone who likes “bears”

He went to Chicago and tearfully surrendered himself to the Oscar Mayer people.

R79 he’s not a bear

R81 you don’t think JC is fat?

🙄

Fat == Bear.

Fat = / = Bear

R84 fat is a precise synonym for bear

I guess it's back to the perfume counter for him.

He said he didn't want his children brought up as Angelinos and preferred to bring them up as the Brit gits they were born to be. Look for Chuckie to laud him with some sort of decoration.

Well he is British. As is his wife.

He used his children as an excuse, r88.

[quote] Hope there's a Cats 2 in his future

Or just more film musicals in general! He's so beloved in them, and he's in SO many.

Has he piled on the pounds?

So they lost $1000 per pound of Corden?

Being paid millions to chat with celebrities, yell, literally run out into traffic and sing in a car with Adele?

I'd tell my kids you and the nanny are on your own!

R79 I fuck sexy, hot studly bears with my orgies with my man.

R94 cool

Sexy is a curious way to describe it. Humans who completely let themselves go and do nothing to take care of themselves or their bodies are a huge turnoff, sexually. Male, female, gay, str8, bi…. Yeah, sexy. 🤢

Again, being overweight, does not make you a bear

R96 pic of a not-overweight bear?

Dear God r97. You’re beyond dense.

Saying that being overweight doesn’t mean you’re a “bear” doesn’t mean bears aren’t overweight. Someone like James Corden isn’t a BEAR.

R98 the only commonality I’ve seen when someone says “he’s a bear” is that the guy is fat.

You’re saying JC would not look completely of-type in this pic 👇

In my tender youth a "bear" was sort of a football player build gone to seed with a bit of a gut.

There was a group called "Girth and Mirth" which was all fat guys and chubby chasers.

Now any fat guy is a "bear."

R100 exactly. I don’t remember just anyone being labeled a bear. And they usually were hairy. If you aren’t hairy you aren’t a bear.

That’s the biggest thing r99 is missing. All those guys are hairy. That is a bear. If you’re fat but clean cut and not hairy you aren’t a bear. You’re just fat.

And if you are skinny and hairy, you are an otter.

Catering can be expensive.

How could a show with people sitting on a couch talking be that expensive?

R105 I thought you worked in the industry. Shouldn’t you know why it’s expensive???

That was my first post in the thread. I never said I work in the industry.

R107 💤 the lack of an education. So sad.

r108 must be new in town. Doesn't know how to determine if posts are from the same person.

R109 I know….

[quote] the lack of an education. So sad.

Well then you got me. I flunked Budgets of Late Night Talk Shows in college.

R111 but you claimed to work in the industry. You can keep playing stupid but I know when you post. I’ll leave it at that.

Nope that wasn't me. Check my history.

Lmaooo the lack of education is real with this one. I’ve laid it out plain for him and he still doesn’t get it.

Colbert put pictures of all his writers up on the screen when he was annoucing the strike - there were about 20 (including himself). Who knows how many producers and technical staff?

I've heard reality shows are the cheapest to make - but are they cheaper than talk shows?

Corden "walking away" is just laughable.

The rude British fatty was hated and America sent him packing in the same pet carrier Piers Morgan and Robbie Williams.

[quote]BS isn't only saving money here. All but the title role stars on "Bob Hearts Abishola," have been lowered to Recurring . CBS claims this will allow 20-plus cast members to find other work, while still being with the show.

This is bizarre, as the two main characters are terrible, they're not interesting in the least, they are both one note and tedious.

The real laughs come from the entire supporting cast, especially the two Black women who work at the hospital (the African-American nurse and the African woman who distributes the food), the two African men who now co-manage the lead male character's sock factory, the African aunt and uncle (the African-American actor is an American doing an African accent) are also hilarious as is the white actor who played Christy's ex-husband on “Mom” as well as the great Christine Ebersole as Bob’s mother.

The druggie/drunk sister is also good. Abishola’s mom is way too annoying to find funny. Abishola’s son is simply ’there’.

The two main characters are the least interesting characters on this series, they’re awful, as if these two need more airtime?! Very much like "Seinfeld”, Jerry was the least interesting, if the supporting cast were not good performers, "Seinfeld” wouldn’t have been successful at all.

The Abishola character is basically a harpy, a stereotypical, pushy, overly opinionated Karen in a Black body and the white husband is a pushover, basically a wimpy schmuck. Not sure why Bob ‘Hearts' Abishola so much, she’s a one dimensional, always sour-faced, control freak.

Are all straight men this stupid and easy to control?! Yet, so many gay men here at DL are obsessed with straight men.

Plus, due to his real-life stomach bypass surgery, the main actor, Billy Gardell, now looks quite ill.

If CBS is going to reduce the supporting characters airtime, I don’t give this series much longer. This series only works an ensemble sitcom, it won’t work with all the emphasis on the two main characters storylines, because they are not funny in the least.

Typical of most bosses, CBS doesn’t appear to know how to treat their workers, they don’t understand what makes whatever they are selling, extremely successful.

I don't understand why Corden's show was so much more expensive than the other late night shows. Or are they all bleeding money?

Poor Dele is a generational plot device. But he's cute.