CBS has officially released the guest/contestant lineup for the first week of shows for After Midnight, the revival of Comedy Central’s game show @midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson and premiering in its post-The Late Show with Stephen Colbert timeslot on Tuesday, January 16. It streams on Paramount+ “next day”, which should be as early as less than a half hour after finishing airing.
Like the original run, and frankly most of what remains of late night television these days, it will air on a Monday to Thursday schedule, with reruns on Fridays (which the original didn’t have). That means like when Leslie Jones kicked off The Daily Show’s year of guest-hosting in the exact same MLK Day week last year, it will only be a three episode debut week. The premiere will already see a few familiar faces to the show, namely comedians Kurt Braunohler, who first appeared in the original show’s second episode, and new mom Whitney Cummings, who had her own sitcom Whitney the same season another creation of hers 2 Broke Girls premiered. She first appeared on the original series in episode 85. They face off against one another and Aparna Nancherla, another comedian and former Late Night with Seth Meyers writer who starred on Comedy Central’s Corporate and has built quite a voice acting resume, most prominently as Hollyhock on Bojack Horseman and with major roles such as Gillie in Baby Shark’s Big Movie. The episode will be repeated in the show’s Friday slot.
Paul F. Tompkins, who appeared in 15 or 2.5% of the original series’s 600 episodes and won the Tournament of Champions, returns against Canadian Sophie Buddle and Carl Tart, who played Sherm on NBC’s Grand Crew and voices Tamarian Lieutenant Kayshon in Star Trek: Lower Decks, in Wednesday’s second episode. In Thursday’s third episode, The Neighborhood and New Girl star Max Greenfield, Ike Barinholtz, known for The Mindy Project, Bless the Harts and most recently the first season of The Afterparty and History of the World, Part II and Robby Hoffman, a writer on Odd Squad and Baroness Von Sketch Show face off.
Jack Martin, showrunner of all four original seasons of @midnight, will split duties as co-showrunner alongside Eric Pierce, setting out to make “the smartest show on television about the dumbest things on the internet”. They and Colbert executive produce with Carrie Byalick, president of Colbert’s Spartina Industries, The Late Show EP Tom Purcell, Colbert’s wife Evelyn McGee Colbert and his manager James Dixon of Dixon Talen. Additional executive producers include Joe Farrell, Mike Farah, Whitney Hodack and Henry R. Muñoz III from Funny Or Die and Jason U. Nadler of Serious Business, who co-created @midnight. Original and since-disgraced host Chris Hardwick is not involved.
Source: Deadline
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