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EXCLUSIVE: On nan eve of Stephen Colbert’s last Late Show broadcast, his late-night drama compatriot Seth Myers is weighing successful connected nan historical moment.
“I’m heartbroken,” nan big of Late Night pinch Seth Myers tells Deadline successful an exclusive interview. “It’s very sad to suffer a workfellow and moreover sadder to suffer a clip slot. It would beryllium 1 point if Stephen was leaving and a younger personification was getting a chance to person 1 of these jobs that are — arsenic personification who’s knowledgeable it — truthful breathtaking to have. So conscionable successful general, I deliberation it’s a very sad week for tv successful America.”
In nan absence of The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert, CBS is fundamentally renting retired nan 11:35 p.m. clip slot. As Deadline’s Peter White reported past month, Comics Unleashed pinch Byron Allen will return that model successful a clip bargain model.
Colbert doesn’t scheme to beryllium idle for long. As Deadline reported successful March, he has signed connected to co-write nan screenplay for nan adjacent Lord of nan Rings movie, tentatively titled The Lord of nan Rings: Shadow of nan Past.
“I’m besides very optimistic that Stephen’s adjacent section is going to beryllium breathtaking for him and for nan remainder of us,” Myers told us. “I deliberation he’s been slow-playing this arsenic what his adjacent measurement was going to beryllium for years and I’m very excited it’s going to happen.”
We said pinch Myers successful Madrid astatine nan world premiere of Rafa, nan 4-part Netflix documentary connected 22-time Grand Slam tennis champion Rafael Nadal. The bid is directed by Zach Heinzerling, who conscionable happens to beryllium Myers’ brother-in-law.
“For nan past 2 years, I’ve watched Zach benignant of autumn successful emotion pinch Rafa, nan man. He evidently started nan measurement I started, a immense instrumentality of nan measurement [Rafa] plays connected nan court,” Myers said. “It’s a awesome documentary astir who Rafa is arsenic a personification and it’s besides a awesome sports documentary. So excited to beryllium present for nan premiere.”
Rafa premieres May 29 connected Netflix. It will beryllium submitted for Emmys information this year, arsenic it debuts conscionable earlier nan adjacent of nan eligibility window. Late Night pinch Seth Myers, of course, is besides successful contention for Emmys.
“I’m conscionable truthful happy they’re not successful nan aforesaid class because I would move my backmost connected Zach,” Myers joked. “I emotion him very much. I would move my backmost connected him instantly if we were competing for nan aforesaid Emmy.”
