Points! Today, Comedy Central announced they’ve renewed @midnight with Chris Hardwick for a fourth season.
The late-night variety show features comedians competing against each other in a series of Internet-inspired games. Previous comedian contestants have included Judd Apatow, Hannibal Buress, Will Ferrell, Patton Oswalt, David Spade, Julie Klausner, Amber Tamblyn, and Kristen Schaal.
From Hardwick:
I LOVE making ‘@midnight’ and we will continue to innovate inappropriate jokes about social media and pop culture in the late-night landscape. I’m proud to get to work with this amazing team for another year, and hopefully beyond!”
Read more details below:
NEW YORK, October 7, 2016 – Fresh off its second straight Emmy® win, the late-night curator of the internet’s freshest pop culture moments keeps the jokes coming as Comedy Central has renewed “@midnight with Chris Hardwick” for a fourth season, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, President, Comedy Central. The fourth season order of “@midnight” is a 40-week run that will air throughout 2017.
Airing Monday-Thursday in its new timeslot at 11:30 P.M. after “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “@midnight with Chris Hardwick” is executive produced by Hardwick, Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant; Mike Farah and Joe Farrell for Funny Or Die; Alex Blagg, Jason Nadler and Jon Zimelis of Serious Business; showrunner Jack Martin; and Alex Murray of Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Gary Mann and Tara Schuster are the Executives in Charge of Production for Comedy Central. The series recently received their second consecutive Emmy®Award for “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Social TV Experience.”
“We are really pleased with how Chris and team have opened the aperture of ‘@midnight’ to cover more of the socially and politically relevant topics of the day, and I defy anyone to find a show with a higher joke-per-minute ratio,” said Alterman.
“I LOVE making ‘@midnight’ and we will continue to innovate inappropriate jokes about social media and pop culture in the late-night landscape,” said Hardwick. “I’m proud to get to work with this amazing team for another year, and hopefully beyond!”
Dominating the social media landscape unlike any series in the late-night arena with a dedicated digital production team responsible for creating and sharing content across all platforms, “@midnight” is the most social of the late-night talk shows on Twitter with the series’ signature #HashtagWars consistently landing as Twitter’s top Trending Topic, both nationally and worldwide. The series is engaging on other social platforms as well with theTrump vs. Bernie @midnight Presidential Debate reaching 6 million views, the most viewed clip of 2016 for Comedy Central on YouTube, and some of Comedy Central’s most shared Facebook posts with the Golden Girls theme song with Trump, Putin and Pence reaching 40 million people with 330,000 shares. On-air “@midnight” reaches the youngest (median age: 39 years), most male (64%) audience of any daily late-night talk show and ranks #3 with Men 18-24 and #5 with Men 18-34 in all of late-night.
“@midnight with Chris Hardwick,” the Emmy®-Award winning multiplatform late night series, celebrates everything the internet dishes up on a nightly basis by taking on the best pop culture moments that the worlds of social and digital have to offer. During each episode, Hardwick leads three panelists through a series of meme-worthy topics in a fast-paced survey of the day online. The world’s best comedic minds compete against each other in segments like Etsy Pitchmen, Buzzspeed, Panderdome and our signature Hashtag Wars, skewering how pop and politics use and abuse social media, as they vie to win the Internet.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of @midnight? Are you glad it’s been renewed?
