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Jimmy Kimmel Live! is planning to come out swinging in its first month at 11:35 PM next year. The ABC late-night show will kick off its new time slot January 8 with Jennifer Aniston and No Doubt as guests. Jimmy Kimmel Live announced today that Jamie Foxx, Mark Wahlberg, Ryan Gosling, Sofia Vergara, Ellen DeGeneres, Rob Lowe, Amy Brenneman, Nicki Minaj, Mindy Kaling, Julie Bowen, Naomi Watts, and Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are scheduled to appear on the show during its first month in the new slot. Along with No Doubt, January’s musical guests include Brad Paisley, Bruno Mars and LeAnn Rimes. ABC announced in late August that after 10 years it was moving Kimmel from midnight to 11:35 PM. This will put Kimmel Live in head-to-head competition with NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman.
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It’s a strong play being that the younger-leaning Kimmel has seen 7% growth year-over-year in total viewers and just came off its most-watched November sweep. The change will see ABC’s longtime late night newsmagazine Nightline move to 12:35 AM. Kimmel will have a bit of time to find his sea legs in the new slot. Earlier this year, he signed a new two-year extension to his contact with ABC. He closes out his time in the midnight slot January 7 with a special Jimmy Kimmel Live: Goodbye To Midnight retrospective.
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Is that really a list of heavy hitters? Seems like an average week for Leno/Letterman doesn’t it? Like Kimmel just not that impressed by the bookings…
Well, Kourtney Kardashian and LeAnn Rimes haven’t hit the big time yet, they haven’t done, say, SyFy originals or anything, but they can talk about making, ummm, well, they can talk about all the Hollywood wonder of being in tabloids every week!
Kardashian? Bowen? Vegara? This seems like a list of Rachael Ray’s guests.
I can’t stand the Kardashians, but they have a massive following and a highly-rated show… so that makes them very desirable guests for a talent booker, yes. Julie Bowen and Sophia Vergara are both popular actresses on one of the biggest shows on TV… a show that happens to be on the same network as Kimmel… great for synergy. Also, a lot of those names are very female-friendly… cuz Kimmel is gonna need to appear to a larger and BROADER audience, so it sounds like they’re doing everything they should be.
Heavy hitter? LOL.
It’s the same group rotating themselves on all the other talk shows.
Silly headline.
He always gives the impression that his guests are there to spend time with him. They’re not of course. They’re there because the studio behind the movie they’re shilling is forcing them to be there.
And, other than Naomi Watts, none of those “heavyhitters” are anything close to being heavyhitters. What? Was Paris Hilton busy?
Agree with everyone above me.
You lost me at Kardashian….. Does the person who wrote this article really believe most of what they just wrote?
Yikes. None of these are people I would go out of my way to see.
Jimmy Kimmel is bad. His original mission for himself was to be an original. The new “Letterman.” He started without a tie. Said there was no way he’d wear a tie. He caved within days. JImmy Kimmel is a lemming of the worst kind. He scorns us with his familiarity and burns us with his mediocracy. Please. Jimmy Kimmel is the Kardashian of talk-show hosts. I’m sure he’d make some smug comment on that comment but inside he knows the truth. He is awful. Jimmy Kimmel should go home now. He’s made enough money, fooled some, but not me.
Billy Bob is for real.
What you just wrote is almost all garbage. Go back and watch Kimmel completely OWN Jay Leno in a video Q and A after Jay stole Conan’s show back. Kimmel was a guest, on a video monitor, on Leno’s show and completely tore Jay a new one, in a funny, yet vicious (and entirely deserved) way. If you don’t emerge from viewing that as a Jimmy Kimmel fan you are not human.
“Heavy hitters,” such as that’s interpreted by executives as promoted by publicists, are part of the formula for the launch or re-launch of any talk show. Heavy hitters come and go; what’s left is what has to work : the host and the show. Way back in the eighties David Lee Roth, Pee Wee Herman, Elton John, and Cher were the heavy hitters on the premiere of Joan Rivers’ show on Fox. The guests are never the problem or the solution per se. That’s how I see it. Plus the letdown/hangover from such a big buildup can sometimes really hurt permanently in terms of perception and experience rather than help.
What’s the matter? You can’t attract the “heavy hitters” anymore? You and your show really suck!
A nice rounded list of has-beens, have-beens, and never weres.
Come on, Jamie Foxx, Mark Wahlberg, Ryan Gosling, are all great gets and are picky about their appearances on the l8 night circuit. Oh and Naomi watts is nominated for a Golden Globe.
He has put out a great show which gets numbers at a though/competitive time slot and you’re going to take an anonymous dig? The same was said about Letterman back in the day and now you’re among the dilatant folks(although I’m guessing you’re young) who bagged on him back in the day.
To be clear, his numbers earned this upgrade.
I have worked with him in a number of ways and left the biz and will tell you he is a great human being as well; both professionally and personally. Most of these comments are incredibly off base and underscore the downside of the internet.
Nightline is the only watchable show….. Guess we stay onto CNN at 1130. Crazy Andy or Chelsea at 11. Thanks for clearing the schedule.
Rerun of pierse at 12… Nightline at 1230.
To bad these shows are no longer important. Carson’s “Tonight Show” drew over 20 million at it’s peak, now these shows are lucky to draw 3 million on a good night.
Is it they’re “not important” or just that cable/web viewing have completely fragmented the audience so we need to expect different numbers?
I was just thinking about this because I was talking about a “Night Gallery” episode called “The Tune In Dan’s Cafe” about a haunted juke box and a country and western song. In the old days of three or four networks, if something good was on, almost everyone from a demographic would see it. Almost everyone I talk to now from the “Night Gallery” generation still remembers that episode.
But now everything is so fragmented almost nobody sees anything in a larger social sense. I think it’s just that times change. But I’m guessing ratings still count.
Looks to be that to be considered a “Heavy Hitter” you must now be a Show Biz Kid. Now we live in an Entertainment Society, where this fatuous, “virulent madness” is taken with the utmost of seriousness, followed anxiously — with the utmost absurdity — Tweet to Tweet.
Heavy hitters? Please. Only if Aniston is going to say she is pregnant and No Doubt is breaking up are those two going to generate major attention. His first show at 11:35 should have had Ryan Gosling and Matt Damon.
Conan>Fallon>Kimmel>Leno>Letterman>That Awkward British guy
Jesue. I just can’t imagine who can sit thru another interview show with the same people. We are down to the interviewers interviewing each other. Only Charlie Rose us worth watching.
Guest booking is usually a self-serving exercise designed to appease the network suits. Of course Kimmel will have first shot at guests who also happen to be on ABC shows (Bowen, Vergara, etc.) as well as anyone who has a film under the Disney banner. The same holds true with Letterman and CBS actors and Paramount movies, and Leno and NBC actors and Universal movies.
Yes, there is a fair amount of “cross-talk”, like when Letterman has NBC anchor Brian Williams as a guest. But guests on talk shows are rarely there to shoot the breeze. They are promoting films, televisions shows, books, plays, records, etc. If it is something that also enriches the studio’s bottom-line, so much the better.
Jimmy Kimmel is AWESOME! The guest list may not sound impressive to some, but really who cares? Jimmy has had pretty much every TV/Film and music artist on that you could name. Jimmy is a great interviewer, witty, and authentic. Then there is his amazing crew of writers and family sidekicks. Kimmel’s videos are fresh, funny, and relevant. I’ve been a fan of Jimmy’s since his “sports guy” stint on KROQ, and will continue to watch… Looking forward to his show getting all the props it deserves.