Larry Wilmore who is no stranger to late-night talk shows is taking fans on a behind-the-scenes journey in his new scripted comedy Lately for ABC
Wilmore is starring in, writing, and executive producing the series which is described as a behind-the-scenes look at the upstairs-downstairs dynamics of the people who work at a late-night talk show.
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Wilmore has a lengthy history within the late-night talk show arena. He began his journey writing on Into the Night, a short-lived 1990 ABC talk show hosted by Rick Dees, of “Disco Duck” fame. He also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for many years as the Senior Black Correspondent. He has since hosted his own show, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, on Comedy Central and more recently hosted and executive produced Wilmore. It was a limited weekly special talk series that aired on Peacock.
The project comes from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Wilmore is under an overall deal. Tamara Gregory, Head of Television at Wilmore’s Wilmore Films, also executive produces.
This marks Wilmore’s return to ABC where he helped to launch black-ish as an executive producer and co-created spinoff grown-ish, which started at the broadcast network before moving to Freeform.