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''Late Show with David Letterman'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the ''Late Show'' franchise. The show debuted on August 30, 1993,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 'Late Night with David Letterman' / 'Late Show with David Letterman' )〕 and was produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. The show's music director and leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, was Paul Shaffer. The head writer was Matt Roberts and the announcer was Alan Kalter. Of the major U.S. late-night programs, ''Late Show'' ranked second in cumulative average viewers over time and third in number of episodes over time. In most U.S. markets the show aired from 11:35 p.m. to 12:37 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, and recorded Monday through Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m., and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The second Thursday episode usually aired on Friday of that week.〔 In 2002, ''Late Show with David Letterman'' was ranked No. 7 on ''TV Guide''s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. As host of both ''Late Night'' and ''Late Show'' for more than 30 years, Letterman surpassed Johnny Carson as the longest running late-night talk show host in 2013. That same year, ''Late Night'' and ''Late Show'' were ranked at #41 on TV Guide's 60 Best Series of All Time.〔(TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time )〕 In 2014, Letterman announced his retirement and the final episode of ''Late Show'' aired on May 20, 2015. After Letterman's final ''Late Show'', instead of airing reruns of the show or having guest host episodes of ''Late Show'', CBS opted to put the show on hiatus in between Letterman and Colbert and instead aired reruns of scripted dramas in the 11:35 pm time slot over the summer with the branding ''CBS Summer Showcase''. The show was then succeeded by ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'', hosted by Stephen Colbert, which premiered on September 8, 2015. ==History== CBS had previously attempted late-night talk shows with ''The Merv Griffin Show'' (1969–1972) and ''The Pat Sajak Show'' (1989–1990), but these were unable to compete with NBC's ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' and were canceled due to poor ratings. For most of the 20 years preceding ''Late Show'', CBS's late night fare consisted of movies, reruns and specialty programming packaged under the title ''CBS Late Night'' and broadcast to middling ratings. When David Letterman became available following a conflict with NBC, CBS was eager to lure him and offered him a three-year, $14 million per year contract, doubling his ''Late Night'' salary. According to their agreement, the show would spend a month in Hollywood at least once a year.〔 CBS purchased the Ed Sullivan Theater for $4 million, spending "several million" to renovate it. The renovation was supervised by architect James Polshek.〔 CBS' total cost for acquiring the show including renovations, negotiation rights paid to NBC, signing Letterman, announcer Bill Wendell, Shaffer, the writers and the band was over $140 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= David Letterman: Keeping Us Up Late )〕 A significant issue regarding Letterman's move to CBS was the ownership of long-running comedy bits used on ''Late Night,'' as well as the name of the CBS show itself. NBC claimed that much of what he did on ''Late Night'' was intellectual property of the network. Letterman and his attorneys countered that some segments ("Viewer Mail" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," for example) pre-dated ''Late Night'' and had first aired on ''The David Letterman Show'', which was owned by Letterman's production company rather than NBC, and others, such as the Top Ten List, were common property and not owned by either Letterman or NBC. Ultimately a compromise was reached in key areas (the "Viewer Mail" segment would be called the "CBS Mailbag," the actor portraying Larry "Bud" Melman on ''Late Night'' would use his real name, Calvert DeForest on the CBS show, and Paul Shaffer's "World's Most Dangerous Band" would become the "CBS Orchestra"). NBC gave Letterman the choice of at least two options to name his new show, ''Late Show with David Letterman'' or ''Nightly with David Letterman''. On this matter CBS executives stepped in, rejecting ''Nightly'' in part because of potential confusion with ''Nightline'' on ABC. Thus, ''Late Show with David Letterman'' quickly became the official title. After Letterman was introduced on ''Late Show''s very first episode, ''NBC Nightly News'' anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him "reasonably well". As part of a pre-arranged act, Brokaw then proceeded to retrieve a pair of cue cards while stating that "These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!" After he carried them off stage, Letterman responded, "Who would have thought you would ever hear the words 'intellectual property' and 'NBC' in the same sentence?" In his opening monologue, Letterman said "Legally, I can continue to call myself Dave" but joked that he woke up that morning and next to him in bed was the head of a peacock (while the orchestra played the theme from ''The Godfather''). In ratings, Letterman's ''Late Show'' dominated Jay Leno's ''Tonight Show'' for its first two years. Leno pulled ahead on July 10, 1995, starting with a Hugh Grant interview, after Grant's much-publicized arrest for picking up an Los Angeles prostitute. Leno also benefited from the lead-in provided by NBC's popular ''Must See TV'' prime time programs of the mid-to-late 1990s. Likewise, the CBS network was hindered by a weak prime time lineup, along with several large- and major-market affiliation switches in late 1994 relating to Fox's acquisition of CBS's National Football League rights, stunting the ''Late Show'' just as it was beginning to gain traction. Announcer Bill Wendell retired in 1995,〔http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-18/entertainment/ca-36624_1_david-letterman-show〕 with Alan Kalter taking his place. At times ''Late Show'' even came in third in its time slot (behind ''Nightline'', most recently in November 2008), once prompting Letterman to arrange for a Manhattan Billboard proudly declaring himself and his show to be No. 3 in Late Night, aping an older, nearby billboard which promoted Leno and ''The Tonight Show'' as No. 1. On June 1, 2009, Conan O'Brien (who had succeeded Letterman as host of ''Late Night'' in 1993) took over as host of ''The Tonight Show''—an event Letterman referenced in his own show's Top Ten List on that night—and Letterman's "feud" with Leno temporarily ceased. In 2008 Letterman told ''Rolling Stone'' that he would welcome Leno on his show once Leno's tenure ended. Letterman said on competing with O'Brien, "I still find it hard to believe that Jay won’t be there."〔 The interview was held prior to Leno announcing his return to NBC for ''The Jay Leno Show''.〔 In the second week after Letterman and O'Brien began their opposing broadcasts, viewer ratings for ''Tonight'' began to slip and ''Late Show'' was poised to beat ''Tonight'' for the first time in over ten years,〔 a fact pointed out by Letterman's guests on air (Howard Stern and Julia Roberts).〔 Letterman quickly tried to change the subject in the interviews and tried to avert a new rivalry.〔〔 In fact, the June 9, 2009 episode of ''Late Show'' featuring Roberts rated better than ''Tonight'' with a 3.4 household rating nationally to O'Brien's 2.9.〔 The Letterman/Leno feud was revived in the wake of the 2010 Tonight Show conflict, which saw Letterman side with O'Brien. Despite the rivalry, Leno appeared in a ''Late Show'' promo with Letterman and Oprah Winfrey which aired on CBS during Super Bowl XLIV; it was Leno and Letterman's first joint appearance since Leno took over the ''Tonight Show'' in 1992. The feud between the hosts ended for good on February 6, 2014 with Leno's second and final retirement and ''Late Night'' host Jimmy Fallon, who succeeded Conan O'Brien in 2009, becoming the current host of the ''Tonight Show'' on February 17, with its subsequent return to New York for the first time since 1972. On April 3, 2012, CBS reached an agreement with Worldwide Pants and CBS Television Studios to continue the show through 2014. The parties reached another agreement in October 2013 to extend the show an additional year, continuing the series into 2015. Including his 11 years on NBC, Letterman is the longest tenured late-night talk show host, having surpassed Johnny Carson.〔 On April 10, 2014, one week after Letterman announced that he would retire as host of ''Late Show'' in 2015, CBS announced that Stephen Colbert (host of competing late-night series ''The Colbert Report'' on Comedy Central) would succeed Letterman as the host of the program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/news/1002302/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Late Show with David Letterman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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