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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 19 May 2018
Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert are truth-tellers at TV events

''MacGyver" and "Magnum mate truth-teller, however.
P.I.," the network is guar- "Let's be honest, this is all
anteed to be No. 1 in 2018 nonsense," he said. "Our
and 1988. ratings are going down
Pairing O'Brien with the co- and our prices are going
medically overmatched up. Too bad. Eat it! We're
Anderson Cooper and four years from having our
Shaquille O'Neal was an brains digitally fused to
inspired decision at Turner's our Instagram accounts.
presentation. So here's what I think we
He told Cooper that CNN should do. Just let these
was no match for Trump. stupid shows wash over us,
"He's like King Kong to your clap politely and then let's
little biplane," O'Brien said. just go get black-out drunk
Kimmel remains the ulti- together."q

Jimmy Kimmel attends the Disney/ABC/Freeform 2018 Upfront Party at Tavern on the Green, Tues-
day, May 15, 2018, in New York.

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Me- most exciting legal dra- They can't even make a
dia Writer mas," he said. "Also some deal with the devil."
NEW YORK (AP) — For one great TV shows." Kimmel added some exple-
week each May, some Kimmel is the gold standard tives to a joke about NBC
of television's best-known for these performances, stacking its three Dick Wolf
comics take on a new role rarely seen publicly. He's dramas set in Chicago —
as the little devils perched been appearing at ABC a subject Meyers took
on the shoulders of their presentations since 2002, up more gently at NBC's
bosses. and his profane, lacerat- presentation, with a quip
Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Mey- ing stand-up routine is an- about the actors' lack of
ers, Stephen Colbert and ticipated more than the Chicago accents.
Conan O'Brien delivered sneak peeks of new shows. Meyers is newer to the
withering jokes at the ex- He knows the business cold, game, and he usually lacks
pense of their industry this and spares no one. Kimmel's bite. Much like on
past week before advertis- No ABC executive was go- his late-night show, Meyers
ers gathered in venues like ing to talk about the sting- has been coming into his
Radio City Music Hall and ing loss of Shonda Rhimes, own, though. Joking about
Carnegie Hall to hear what the creative force behind Bill Cosby and Matt Lauer
broadcast networks have shows like "Grey's Anatomy" is a lot braver at an NBC
in store for next season. and "Scandal," to a new event than at ABC.
The executives can't talk deal at Netflix. Kimmel did. "It's not surprising for NBC to
about declining ratings or "I can honestly say, on be- be dramatic," Meyers said.
a lack of ideas, boardroom half of everyone here at "We are home to the No.
battles or new series that ABC who worked with her 1 drama on television, a
will disappear after an epi- for so long, we hope she show that each week gives
sode or two. They're paid rots in hell," he said. us twists and turns, heart-
to project confidence at ABC is saying goodbye to breaking reveals and, this
what are elaborate sales Shondaland and "going season, the departure of a
presentations with billions headfirst into Roseanne- once-beloved character.
of dollars at stake. istan with no plan," he said. I'm talking, of course, about
It's left to the comics to ac- He relished mocking the 'This is the Today Show.'"
knowledge what people title of a new ABC show, Colbert works this gig with
are thinking but not saying. "Whiskey Cavalier." a handicap. CBS in the
For instance, the fate of net- He's not all self-depreca- Moonves era is an un-
work chief Leslie Moonves tory. Kimmel zeroes in on abashed booster of net-
due to a power struggle the weaknesses of rivals; work television. The boss is
was on many minds but few Moonves has been par- more apt to puncture his
lips at CBS' show. Moonves ticularly annoyed through rivals' business claims than
made people exhale with the years at Kimmel jokes programming decisions. It
a brief aside — "So, how's about an older CBS audi- was safer for Colbert to tar-
your week been?" — but ence. "Fox needs help," the get President Trump.
Colbert mined it for com- comic said. "They canceled He did note that with CBS'
edy. "This year CBS has the 'Lucifer' and 'The Exorcist.' reboots of "Murphy Brown,"