NBC final month renewed Late Evening With Seth Meyers and re-upped its host via 2028. However when Late Evening returns subsequent fall for its twelfth season with Meyers, it will likely be and not using a home band for the primary time within the present’s forty fourth 12 months historical past.
The 8G Band, led by Saturday Evening Stay alum Fred Armisen, has been laid off as dwell music will not be a everlasting function on the present going ahead, Deadline has confirmed. The choice, believed to be a cost-saving measure, was revealed by band member Eli Janney — who can be the affiliate musical director on the present — in an interview with Vulture.
“Sadly, it’s the truth of broadcast and a shrinking market — streaming consuming into this, and YouTube consuming into that,” he mentioned. “Streaming just isn’t being profitable, both. So budgets in all places have been reduce and reduce and reduce. I liken it to a Spotify second in music, the place all of a sudden it’s like, No person desires to pay for music. Music will get devalued.”
Janney mentioned within the interview that Meyers and Late Evening showrunner Mike Shoemaker knowledgeable the band of the reduce greater than a month in the past. It additionally consists of the crew that works with the musicians.
Not like The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon the place dwell music performs an integral half, with Fallon regularly performing alongside his friends, Late Evening With Seth Meyers is thought primarily for its commentary section A Nearer Look, its Day Consuming sequence in addition to visitor interviews.
The 8G band members additionally embody Seth Jabour and Syd Butler. In response to Janney, the group will nonetheless make music for the present, they only gained’t carry out it dwell.