Larry Wilmore is on his way back to late night with a new show on Peacock.
The streamer has the Untitled Larry Wilmore Show (w / t) and will pair it with The Amber Ruffin Show to launch a weekly late-night news block.
It marks the Black-ish exec producer returns to late television after his stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show between 2006 and 2014 and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, which ran two seasons on Comedy Central, ending in 2016.
In the show, Wilmore will have conversations with high-profile people from all different backgrounds, including sports, politics and entertainment. Each episode will cover the elections and key talks of the week.
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Peacock has ordered 11 episodes of the show, which is set to launch in September. It will be exec produced by Wilmore, who has a general production deal with Universal TV, Jo Miller, Tony Hernandez, Brooke Posch, David Miner and Michael Rotenberg. It will be produced by Jax Media and Universal Television.
“I’m honored to have the opportunity to not only be back on television, but to work with the great team at Peacock,” Wilmore said. “Apparently there is a lot going on in the world right now and a quick election story is happening, so I’m glad I have a place in the conversation.”
The Amber Ruffin Show will also debut in September. The streamer has ordered nine half-hour episodes of the show, which will feature Late Night starring writer Seth Meyers on the “new” of the week a “smart” and “cute” assumption.
Ruffin is a writer and performer for NBC Late Night and has been increasingly on camera with spots like Amber Says What and she opened the show regularly after the murder of George Floyd with stories of her own experiences with police. She also wrote and performed on Comedy Central’s Detroiters, is an ordinary narrator on Drunk History and wrote on the first season of HBOs A sketch show by Black Lady.
Ruffin, Jenny Hagel, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker serve as executive producers. The series is produced by Universal Television and Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions.
“Having a late night show at Peacock is so exciting,” Ruffin said. “We can’t wait to write sketches, songs and jokes about this horrible time we are calling now.”
