The summer of Seth Meyers
As if his late-night show, YouTube segment and two podcasts weren’t enough, the host is suddenly everywhere. PLUS: It’s splitsville for Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney turns its lawyers on an AI image generator, and a Wonder Woman movie is in the works.
Hey, Popculturology readers. How’s everyone doing out there?
By now, you all know where I stand on live-action remakes. Do we need a new take on How to Train Your Dragon? Nope. But if there’s a bright spot from it existing, it’s that we got another delightful review/chat between ScreenCrush’s Matt Singer and one of his daughters.
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Seth Meyers mania
It’s the summer of Seth Meyers. Or, at least it feels like that this past week. While Meyers is already everywhere — four episodes of Late Night most weeks, an installment of “Corrections” on Fridays and new episodes of his podcasts, Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers and The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, every week — the late-night host has been popping up across multiple other platforms over the past week or so.
I’m guessing it all stems from a West Coast trip that Meyers made a few weeks ago, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on May 29.
This is probably when Meyers visited Marc Maron for his second appearance on WTF with Marc Maron, the podcast that can credibly claim to be the foundation for the podcasting medium that Meyers has fully jumped into these past few years.
Meyers also chatted about comedy, late-night TV and what’s it’s like to be constantly asked if he’s going to take over SNL after Lorne Michaels retires with Jesse David Fox on Vulture’s Good One: A Podcast About Jokes.
Look, I know that Meyers repeatedly denies it, but I’m back on the bandwagon that he’s going to run SNL after Michaels someday steps away. It’s just fate at this point.
Closer to his New York City home, Meyers hit up the Criterion Closet to offer his picks — I’m definitely going to pick up that Watership Down Blu-ray now that I know that Criterion has it in their collection — and swung by the Bon Appétit test kitchen to share his dining pet peeves.
(There’s a very good chance that Meyers is wearing the same sweater for Good One, “Closet Picks” and the Bon App video.)
While a promotional push like this isn’t unusual for a celeb, it’s usually tied to a new project. A movie, a TV show, even a new standup special. To the best of my knowledge, Meyers doesn’t have any of those on the way, but it’s been fun to see his name repeatedly pop up across the various podcasts and YouTube shows that I follow these past few days.
Was it all meant to lead up to Meyers bringing Conan O’Brien back to Late Night?
OK, now I gotta go listen to the latest episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers. Let’s get on with the rest of the newsletter, Quaid Army.
Book nook
I finished Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time on Wednesday and already have the second and third books in his series loaded on my Kindle. (There’s a fourth book in the works too.) This book was a fantastic surprise that I stumbled upon last week thanks to a New Yorker piece that recommended Children of Ruin, the series’ second installment.
NEWS, NOTES & TRAILERS
It’s over for Warner Bros. Discovery
It’s an end of an era. After a whopping three years of wild success, Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting up.
The company was formed when AT&T spun off WarnerMedia to be merged with David Zaslav’s Discovery Inc. That move put the storied Warner Bros. studio, the DC superhero world, CNN, HBO, Food Network, the HBO Max app, the Discovery app and a bunch of cable channels under one umbrella.
And now the company will split into two.
