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Getty Images for The Met Museum/ And then there was Fallon.
NBC‘s “Tonight Show” is the only late-night program to keep on keeping on as usual as the nation moves into late summer, a sign of how the wee-hours format continues to be winnowed down amid a continuing decline in the economics of midnight TV.
NBC this week launched what is expected to be a seven-week hiatus for Seth Meyers’ “Late Night,” the longest break of its kind since the host took over the show in 2014, according to people familiar with the matter. The LateNighter web site previously reported the new interruption. Social feeds belonging to “Late Night” on Monday told followers “See you in the fall!” and offered a link to reserve tickets to see the program live. Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” has also gone on a summer hiatus, and will be off for five weeks before returning in September. The network will not show repeats, and will instead feature other programming.
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