The genre appears to be slowly ebbing away, with the announcement this week that "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" is the last of the network programs to cut down its output to just four nights a week. None of the major shows now produces a single new episode on Friday nights. 

As profits fall and younger viewers watch highlights on YouTube and TikTok and skip the rest of the show, the one time goldmine of late night seems to be running out of ore.

I love this line that concludes the story, from NBC's Seth Meyers, who hosted a recent NBC network upfront.

“I asked an NBC executive, why do you hold upfronts here every year? And they said, ‘I like looking at the marquee and thinking, sure. It’s a tricky time for TV but it could be worse. We could be in radio.’”   

That's some comfort!

How Late Night TV Is Downsizing