How Late Night TV Is Downsizing As ‘The Tonight Show’ cuts to a four-day weekly schedule, the genre — perhaps more than any other entertainment format — is struggling to adapt to a ...

Though streaming and social media have upended how viewers consume late-night series, innovation on the shows themselves has been much more stagnant.

Trish Bendix, who writes the Best of Late Night column, reflects on years of watching and covering talk shows that air after dark.