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An auditorium packed with network executives and crew members rose to their feet in applause as five giants of television stepped onto a single stage. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel – longtime rivals – were about to rehearse something unprecedented. One staffer said it was like watching the Beatles walk into Abbey Road studio. However, the hosts were not there to create music; they were there to save an entire genre from collapse. Their writers were locked in a single room, tasked with crafting a new show from intellectual chaos. The first broadcast would reveal whether their impossible alliance was genius or a spectacular failure.

An auditorium packed with network executives and crew members rose to their feet in applause as five giants of television stepped onto a single stage. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth …

An auditorium packed with network executives and crew members rose to their feet in applause as five giants of television stepped onto a single stage. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel – longtime rivals – were about to rehearse something unprecedented. One staffer said it was like watching the Beatles walk into Abbey Road studio. However, the hosts were not there to create music; they were there to save an entire genre from collapse. Their writers were locked in a single room, tasked with crafting a new show from intellectual chaos. The first broadcast would reveal whether their impossible alliance was genius or a spectacular failure. Read More