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After just shy of two years on the air, Lilly Singh s late-night talk show is officially coming to an end.
The Scarborough-born comedian made history when her show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, first premiered on NBC in September of 2019 making her the first and only woman of colour on network late-night talk TV.
Now in its second season, the show has been struggling with ratings thanks in part to its 1:30 a.m. time slot and the COVID-19 pandemic. Its last episode is set to air on June 3.
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A Little Late With Lilly Singh, is officially ending on the network.
The show only ran for two seasons, and the 32-year-old entertainer released a statement about the show ending and what she wants to do moving forward.
Click inside to see Lilly Singh’s statement…
“I have a desire to make longer form content telling underrepresented stories, which is difficult to execute on a nightly show,” she said in a statement (via Variety).
Meanwhile, NBC has made to many decisions on which shows to renew and which to cancel so far this year. Be sure to see the full recap of cancelled and renewed 2021 NBC shows if you missed it,
A Little Late With Lilly Singh: NBC s Late-Night Series to End With Season 2 TVLine 6/05/2021
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.
A Little Late premiered in September 2019, filling the gap left by
Last Call With Carson Daly, which ended a few months earlier after 17 years on the air. An NBC insider tells TVLine that the network is rethinking its 1:30 am time slot and plans to move away from original talk programming.
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Comedian Lilly Singh‘s stint on the late-night circuit is coming to an end. But she’s just getting started when it comes to TV.
On Thursday, the YouTube star announced that her groundbreaking talk show, “A Little Late With Lilly Singh,” will soon wrap for good after two years on NBC.
When the series premiered in 2019, Singh became the first woman in more than 30 years and the first LGBTQ person ever to host a late-night program on a major network.
“Two years ago, I embarked on the wild journey of late night TV,” Singh wrote in a statement. “I knew this show was about more than me, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity and support. .
Singh signs first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio
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Photo by: Ryan Pfluger/NBC
“A Little Late With Lilly Singh’s” TV tenure will be a little short: the NBC late-night series is ending after less than two years. But Singh isn’t leaving the family; she has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio to develop unscripted projects through her Unicorn Island Productions.
The final original episode of “A Little Late” will air on June 3. Reruns of the two-season experiment will fill the 1:30 a.m. time slot through the summer, we’re told.