Late-night talk show and 7 other TV formats that need to be cancelled
Joshua Tyler | publishing
Party With Stephen Colbert cancelling, it was mainly because no one watched the late-night talk show anymore. If the network makes sense, they will also start canceling other late-night talk shows. Sorry, Jimmy.
Talk shows are an outdated format that has no relevance or interest in the modern world. They are not the only TV formats that need to be cancelled either. These are what other TV show format networks should give up.
Morning performance
Morning performances are designed for housewives, who watch while cleaning the kitchen after they take their kids to school on the bus and go to school. Housewives no longer have any meaningful numbers; women have long been struggling with the modern labor force. Therefore, it is not clear who these shows are. My best guess is a nursing home patient.
Morning performances play like Stone Age Instagram, like Tiktok stuck in tar. Most of them still exist because pharmaceutical companies pay them to deceive older people into buying drugs they don’t need.
choose: Try podcasts. You can listen at work.
Traditional game programs
Survivors ushered in a game revolution in the early 2000s. Decades later, it’s replaced with an old, outdated traditional game performance style still airs. Rotate the wheel, guess the letters, trivia under trivia – There has been no meaningful evolution for decades. They rely on artificial tension, applause and low-risk prizes to make no sense in the interactive world of streaming.
It is best not to watch slot videos on YouTube. And, if you’re looking for a game The Devil’s Plan.
choose: Try social strategy games. survivor Still great Big brother It’s consistent, Korean The Devil’s Plan and genius.
Clip display
We have YouTube. What are people doing here?
Procedural crime display
Thanks to the internet, we now know that real police work is not similar to the publicity that police programs feed on TV. So now, they feel like they are from mute, slower-age relics.
If they were mystery-driven detective performances, they would still be fun She wrote about murder or Columbus (And you should definitely play those old episodes). knife The movie franchise does a great job of delivering on that. Sadly, this is not a modern police program.
Instead, watching a police program is like choosing to flip your iPhone and stare at the back of the device.
choose: Try a real crime podcast. They are more attractive, they are real.
Multi-camera sitcom
Once the gold standard of online comedy, sitcoms are now played like museum exhibitions, and jokes are played more than stories and characters have never changed. Canned laughter, static suit, rhythm on the floating line – In the world that the audience wants to feel the real world, it is all painful artificial rhythms.
Performance Friends and Seinfeld There are moments for them, but copying their format in 2025 is like releasing a new car with a crank start. Cherish those classic sitcoms, but let go of the format.
choose: Try to be like a drama Bear or Ted Lasso.
National News Broadcast
It is not clear whether these news once provided accurate information, but to be sure, there is no. Whether it is Fox News, ABC News or CNN, they are all undermined by advertisers and political biases and cannot be trusted.
Even if you can trust ordinary news shows, they are worse at publishing news quickly and efficiently than scrolling X or reading detailed Reddit threads.
News and opinion shows may always have a place like an angry bait, but the “fair fact” masquerades of Brett Baier and Anderson Cooper may disappear. We don’t buy it.
choose: The entire Internet.
Award display
The awards ceremony was once an event – Gorian, charming and worthy of gathering on TV. Now, they are swollen, and self-appreciative marathon people no one asks for it. In an era of instant response, viral moments and dispersed fanatics, Hollywood looked at Hollywood’s back for three hours, feeling deaf and out of touch.
The audience did not adjust who won. They are checking if X has a trending clip. Ratings are for a reason, people get tired of the relevance of compulsiveness, endless monologues and hallucinations of prestige. The red carpet is getting cold. It’s time to roll it up.
choose: Tiktok. No one can do narcissism better.
