In terms of information, the first three episodes are a nice introduction to late night history. The remaining 3, though, are very superficial.
Two very important points: First of all, except for the last episode, they do not even mention Craig Ferguson. There is only a 1 second still of his in the 3rd or 4th episode.
Second and most importantly, they do not understand why the audience turned to TV comedians for trusted journalism. CNN does not have any self-awareness or self-reflection on that matter. When Johnny Carson was the host of the Tonight Show, U. S. audience had outlets to get information from T. V..
However, in the time of "post-truth", the audience only had TV comedians. And today, as all the TV comedians have the same idea as if they were dictated with one script from one source, the audience runs from the TV comedians and to the online comedians and commentators. There is no longer time slots to fill. There is only content with insights to what is going on in the world and in the U. S. A.
The final episode of the CNN "programme" misses out on that point in quite an ironic way.
Two very important points: First of all, except for the last episode, they do not even mention Craig Ferguson. There is only a 1 second still of his in the 3rd or 4th episode.
Second and most importantly, they do not understand why the audience turned to TV comedians for trusted journalism. CNN does not have any self-awareness or self-reflection on that matter. When Johnny Carson was the host of the Tonight Show, U. S. audience had outlets to get information from T. V..
However, in the time of "post-truth", the audience only had TV comedians. And today, as all the TV comedians have the same idea as if they were dictated with one script from one source, the audience runs from the TV comedians and to the online comedians and commentators. There is no longer time slots to fill. There is only content with insights to what is going on in the world and in the U. S. A.
The final episode of the CNN "programme" misses out on that point in quite an ironic way.