Recent from skewering his employer, Seth Meyers has been rewarded with a brand new contract at NBC.
Meyers will proceed to host Late Night time with Seth Meyers by 2028 and has prolonged his general cope with Common Studio Group.
It comes three years after NBC struck a cope with the previous SNL star and head author to resume the present by 2025.
It signifies that there might be stability throughout late-night on NBC till not less than 2026 after Jimmy Fallon prolonged his contract to host The Tonight Present in 2021.
Meyers is the most recent late-night host to strike a brand new deal; John Oliver struck a deal in December to proceed internet hosting Final Week Tonight by 2026, Stephen Colbert closed a brand new three-year deal for The Late Present on CBS final 12 months and Jimmy Kimmel inked a three-year contract with ABC to maintain internet hosting his eponymous present in 2022.
As a part of the settlement, Meyers’ manufacturing firm Sethmaker Shoemeyers, which he runs with Late Night time showrunner Mike Shoemaker, will produce content material throughout NBCUniversal platforms after extending its cope with the studio.
Meyers just lately celebrated his 10th anniversary on the present and has filmed over 1,500 episodes since February 24, 2014.
Meyers joked that he has had the identical NBCUniversal photograph ID since 2001 when he joined SNL. “I simply don’t wish to take a brand new ID photograph,” he advised Deadline. “I take a look at the outdated one and I believe I nonetheless appear like that. However the minute I see that second photograph…”
Joking apart, he stated that internet hosting Late Night time with Seth Meyers for ten years has been a “actual journey”. He stated that he thinks of his profession in five-year chunks.
He advised Deadline that one of many causes he didn’t get the identical seven-year itch that the likes of The Late Late Present’s James Corden and The Each day Present’s Trevor Noah acquired was that his seven years got here up through the pandemic, which itself was a “artistic” reset for the present.
“I’m not in any manner, form, or kind uninterested in doing this, principally as a result of it’s always altering and you may strive new issues, due to the posh of hours you possibly can fill in per week. There’s at all times room for reinvention,” he added.
The present, which airs at 12:35am, is produced by Common Tv and Broadway Video. Lorne Michaels is exec producer and Shoemaker is producer.
“Over the past 10 years, Seth has resonated along with his viewers evening after evening with a pointy monologue and established segments similar to ‘A Nearer Look’ and ‘Day Consuming,’” stated Katie Hockmeyer, EVP, Late Night time Programming, NBCUniversal Leisure. “We’re so comfortable to proceed this legacy franchise with Seth on the helm and watch him proceed to raise the success of Late Night time.”