NBC's Late-Night Series A Little Late with Lilly Singh to End with Season 2

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...runner-1223618

Lilly Singh will officially inherit Carson Daly's late-night slot on Sept. 16, making her the only female host on broadcast TV. NBC also named veteran producer John Irwin, who worked on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the 1990s, as showrunner.

A Little Late with Lilly Singh will be the only late-night show with a gender-equal writing staff

Singh has tapped three men and three woman as her writers for her 1:35 a.m. late-night show, which premieres Sept. 16.

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Lilly Singh unveils her NBC A Little Late set

The YouTuber-turned-late-night host posted a 13-minute video on the design and construction of her A Little Late with Lilly Singh set.

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Ironically, Lilly Singh is better doing late-night interviews than comedy bits

"Like most first-timers to late night, Singh has been experimenting with her platform, inventing new games with almost every guest and toying with high-concept digital shorts," Shirley Li says of the A Little Late host's first three weeks. "But as it turns out, her forte so far has been the most classic of late-night responsibilities: the celebrity interview. It’s ironic. Singh’s background as a popular YouTuber—someone used to delivering funny commentary and making viral videos for nearly 15 million subscribers—should have translated easily to the current model of late-night TV: gimmick-driven clips, lighthearted games, and deep dives. But even though her monologues cover the same topics she addressed on her channel, these brief meditations on relationships, aging, fashion, and the like come off awkward in a live-TV setting."

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NBC Brings Back "A Little Late with Lilly Singh" for Second Season
by Peter White
May 13, 2020


"A Little Late with Lilly Singh" will return to NBC for a second season.

This comes after the late-night talk show finished airing its first 97-episode run last week.

https://deadline.com/2020/05/nbc-a-l...wo-1202933267/

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A Little Late with Lilly Singh is getting a new writing staff, showrunner and a new house-based set for Season 2

Season 1 writer Chelsea Davison will take over from Sean O'Connor as head writer and become the only writer staying for Season 2 of the NBC late-night show. Season 2 will also film at a house in Los Angeles. “Swapping out a traditional stage for a Los Angeles-based house as the show’s location will give Lilly more space to break the rules and embrace imperfection," NBC said in a statement. " Without the constraints of a typical studio, A Little Late will be spontaneous and unfiltered, bringing a funhouse vibe to the 1:35 a.m. timeslot." New showrunner Neil Punsalan will succeed Aliyah Silverstein. "During the first season of A Little Late, I was thrust into a whole new world that admittedly consisted of 90% learning and 10% being creative," said Singh in a statement. "For this second round, I know the ropes and plan to bring more of my creativity to the table. It’s time to get goofy, be imperfect and bring my full authentic self to late night."

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I’m sure what date of Season 2 of NBC’s A Little Late will start

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NBC's Late-Night Series "A Little Late with Lilly Singh" to End with Season 2
by Rebecca Iannucci /
May 6 2021


NBC is about to have a vacancy on its late-night schedule: "A Little Late with Lilly Singh" will end with its current second season, TVLine has learned. The final episode will air Thursday, June 3 at 1:35 am/12:35c.

However, Singh will continue working with NBCUniversal despite the end of her talk show, signing a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio on Thursday to develop unscripted projects.

https://tvline.com/2021/05/06/lilly-...-season-2-nbc/

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NBC says it will "rethink" the 1:30 timeslot, but won't put in a new talk show after A Little Late with Lilly Singh ends after two seasons

“NBC has had a talk show in this slot since 1988 and there have been some amazing hosts in it," said Frances Berwick, NBCUniversal’s chairman of entertainment networks. "As Lilly moves on to the next chapter, we realize we have an opportunity to rethink the 1:30am programming. We’re not ready to share specifics on that yet but we will be going in a different direction than a talk show."

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Why do social media stars struggle to transition to TV stardom?

Charli D’Amelio, TikTok's biggest star with 124 million followers, is the latest social media influencer to attempt to translate her massive following to television via Hulu's The D’Amelio Show. She's co-starring in the Keeping Up with the Kardashian-style reality show, now available to stream, with older sister Dixie (54.5 million TikTok followers), father Marc (10.5 million) and mother Heidi (9.5 million). "Traditional media is salivating at the prospect" of D'Amelio having mainstream TV success, says Travis M. Andrews. "Social media’s young followers, who eschew traditional entertainment platforms, are still a largely untapped market." But so far, social media stars have struggled with the transition, most notably Lilly Singh, who -- despite having more than 14 million followers -- failed on NBC's late-night with her A Little Late talk show. "The path to traditional stardom for the creators who have made their names on the Internet is littered with failures," says Andrews. "After being named one of the most influential people on the Internet by Time magazine in 2015, Vine star Brittany Furlan embarked on an acting career that still hasn’t taken off. YouTuber Tyler Oakley has tried several different paths to the mainstream — including competing in The Amazing Race — but is still known mostly for his vlogging. Fellow YouTuber Jack Maynard broke free from the Internet by going on the U.K. reality show I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! only to be removed after his past offensive tweets surfaced. AwesomenessTV’s Next Influencer, a reality show about a group of TikTokers trying to become famous on the app, has an astoundingly low 1.7/10 rating on IMDb. Their primary hurdle has been the cultural mismatch. Online media is 'such a unique environment. YouTube had a difficult time translating to traditional media spaces, and I think TikTok will even more so,' said Jamie Cohen, a digital media and media studies professor at Queens College. Online platforms have their own visual style — a filter that superimposes dog ears onto a person’s face wouldn’t be out of place — that doesn’t always translate to film to television. And they offer their popular personalities the kind of flexibility and freedom unheard of in traditional media, allowing creators to react quickly to the feedback of their viewers." In a video published shortly after Singh's debut titled "Leaving the YouTube Bubble," YouTuber Drew Gooden explained why her transition to TV didn't work, namely that NBC misunderstood her popularity that was mainly a hit with children. He also notes that online personalities like Singh can lose creative control when working with a large network, hampering the freedom that made them successful online. With a network, the creator is no longer in charge, no longer making niche content for its niche audience. Andrews adds: "Despite the perils, mainstream fame continues to be a draw for those that have made their names online. Networks and movie studios have access to greater resources to promote and share their content, not to mention that they can reach larger general audiences than social media." Gooden also points out that despite social media becoming mainstream, influencers are still viewed as inferior, even if they earn a lot of money. “You’ll be a successful YouTuber, and you’ll talk to someone, and they’ll ask, ‘What do you want to do next?’” he says. As Andrews points out, Bo Burnham, an early YouTube star, is the "gold standard" for achieving mainstream success. Yet with his acclaimed Netflix pandemic special Inside, "Burnham wrote, shot, directed and edited the series — the way a YouTuber or TikToker might. But instead of putting it all online, it was released on Netflix."

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Lilly Singh's arrival in NBC's late-night lineup in 2019 got me thinking back to the women who came before her on the network in the same time slot. In this Spotlight I recall Helen Reddy, Kelly Lange, Rona Barrett, Nancy Friday, Linda Ellerbee, Rita Sever, and Cynthia Garrett.

We explore The Midnight Special, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, NBC News Overnight, Friday Night Videos, Later, and Late Friday.

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:29 Helen Reddy / Midnight Special
• 04:11 Kelly Lange / Tomorrow Show
• 05:40 Rona Barrett / Tomorrow Show
• 08:12 Nancy Friday / Tomorrow Show
• 10:11 Linda Ellerbee / NBC News Overnight
• 16:33 Rita Sever / Friday Night (Videos)
• 20:21 Cynthia Garrett / Later
• 24:25 New Blood: Lilly Singh & Amber Ruffin
• 25:05 Where Are They Now?
• 28:01 Farewells / Credits

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Since getting cancelled a few years ago, Lilly Singh has pretty much dropped out of popular media. But last year she gave a Ted Talk where she does her explain to why she failed, and answer may not surprise you. Lilly was quick to blame the patriarchy and racism - but is she right?

In this video, I analyze Lilly Singh Ted Talk, and where it all went so wrong.

• 0:00:00 - Intro
• 0:08:27 - Origins
• 0:14:14 - Global
• 0:20:07 - Talk Show
• 0:26:13 - A Little Late
• 0:32:44 - Viral
• 0:39:18 - Negativity
• 0:48:48 - Renewal
• 0:55:46 - Season 2
• 1:02:53 - Cancellation
• 1:09:35 - Too Little, Too Late
• 1:15:58 - First Impressions
• 1:22:29 - A Little Taste
• 1:30:27 - Outro

How does Lilly Singh invent a victim narrative to try to make her career sound impressive? How do her statements clash with the image she wants people to have of her? And how do we recognize the signs of an unreliable victim narrative? By analyzing Lilly Singh’s words and behavior in her Ted Talk, we’re able to answer these questions. Victim narratives are everywhere today, but can we trust them?

In this Ted Talk, Singh talks about her motivations, ambitions, and disappointments, but can we actually trust what she says?

As an analysis, this video is carefully made according to the terms of ‘fair use’.

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• 0:00:00 - Intro
• 0:08:27 - Origins
• 0:14:14 - Global
• 0:20:07 - Talk Show
• 0:26:13 - A Little Late
• 0:32:44 - Viral
• 0:39:18 - Negativity
• 0:48:48 - Renewal
• 0:55:46 - Season 2
• 1:02:53 - Cancellation
• 1:09:35 - Too Little, Too Late
• 1:15:58 - First Impressions
• 1:22:29 - A Little Taste
• 1:30:27 - Outro

Lilly Singh’s TED Talk criticizes the world for its sexist, racist, and otherwise unfair views and blames these views for the failure of her show. Unfortunately for Lilly, the reason her show was canceled is actually because she’s painfully unfunny.

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Lilly Singh says her late-night show was “set up to fail”

Singh says she was forced to record nearly 100 episodes of NBC’s A Little Late in just three months—which got awkward when the pre-recorded show ran smack into COVID.

By William Hughes | September 17, 2025 | 6:13pm



There has been much ink spilled, in recent months, about the fate of late-night talk TV. The cancellation of Stephen Colbert has been the big marquee item, of course, with Paramount continuing to swear up and down that the axing was a strictly financial decision, rooted in how expensive these daily TV productions can be—and having nothing to do with Colbert’s political content, or his vocal criticisms of Paramount itself. But even outside that big-ass canary in the coal mine, there have been other birds dropping around the edges: The abandonment of Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight by CBS, and, even before that, the decision by NBC to cancel Lilly Singh’s A Little Late back in 2021, and drop the latest part of its late-night programming off the schedule.

Now, Canadian comedian Singh has opened up a bit about the cancellation, cheerfully agreeing that she was “set up to fail” by executives in a new interview with SiriusXM’s Julia Cunningham. “I don’t want to say you were set up to fail—” Cunningham begins, before Singh jumps in with a chipper “No, I was.” Singh points especially to the 1:30 a.m. show’s grueling schedule, which, due to budget restrictions, saw it record its whole 97-episode first season in bulk in the span of three months. (Among other things, meaning that Singh was releasing episodes with a live audience, and no mention of ongoing total societal disruption, during the first several months of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns.) “Then,” Singh adds, “The second season also released during the pandemic, so it was Zoom interviews. So, I had two pandemic seasons of a late-night show, half the writer’s room of everyone else, and half the budget.”

It’s worth noting that the late-late timeslot has always been built on some pretty harsh fiscal realities; the whole history of A Little Late’s predecessor in the slot, Last Call With Carson Daly, was basically a series of moves designed to produce talk show-esque content without having to shell out for a topical or regularly produced series. Still, it’s not hard to see how being expected to pump out timely, eye-catching content on that kind of schedule could be hugely dispiriting.

For what it’s worth, Singh sounds optimistic about the whole thing, noting that, “I’m so grateful because I feel like I can do any schedule and I learned so much”—including, she notes, what questions to ask about how much money she’ll have to make something, and what kind of schedule will be demanded of her. She’s certainly kept busy since A Little Late went off the air, starring in Muppets TV series The Muppets Mayhem; writing, executive producing, and starring in her own film, Doin’ It; and appearing in a voice role in The Bad Guys 2.

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"OG Youtuber" "Lilly Singh" has had quite the fall from the top. From the failure of her late night talk show "A Little Late With Lilly Singh" to her new movie release, she her career outlook is looking bad.