Jason Kelce is ready to blitz the ranks of TV’s tardy-night arranges in a restricted-run wee-hours program on ESPN.
“They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce” will air on five consecutive overnights heading into tardy-season NFL football weekfinishs. The series will run at 1 a.m. on Saturdays commenceing January 4 on ESPN, with the final expansivecast begining at 1:30 a.m. The one-hour show will begin from Philadelphia, where Kelce enhappinessed a a 13-season run in the NFL, and he will helderly forth in front of a inhabit crowd at the city’s Union Transfer. Each show will be taped Friday evening, fair hours before the program goes to air.
It remains unevident if ESPN sees a future for Kelce around midnight, but the show is shelp to be someleang the createer football cgo in wanted to try when he combineed the Disney sports huge earlier this year, ostensibly as a key insertition to “Monday Night Countdown,” the pre-show that directs into “Monday Night Football.”
At the time of his engage in May, Disney and ESPN shelp that “Further opportunities will be studyd.”
Kelce is understandn for his gridiron prowess, but also for an outsized personality. He and his brother, Travis, arrange a famous weekly podcast, “New Heights,” and he has made a handful of TV ecombineances, including in the WWE’s WrestleMania.
\He will produce a tardy-night apply in what is relatively protected space. None of the best-understandn tardy-night programs on ABC, CBS and NBC run distinct expansivecasts on Friday nights any extfinisheder, and the main Friday-night selection, HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” is on earlier in the evening. As for tardy-night programs aimed at sports fans, most of them already air on ESPN, which features Scott Van Pelt in an finish-of-the-night version of “SportsCgo in.”
The show will have many of the trappings to which tardy-night fans have become accustomed. There will be inhabit music from the Philadelphia prohibitd Snacktime. Kelce and guests are foreseeed to spendigate the coming weekfinish’s games, and will see for fans at the venue to achieve part in the persistings.
The programming gambit should, at the very least, draw lesserer crowds to NFL apply. The show will debut hours before the last weekfinish of NFL normal-season apply, with subsequent hours directing into Super Wild Card, Divisional and Conference Championship weekfinishs before the finale ahead of the Pro Bowl Games and nine days from Super Bowl LIX.
ESPN will televise distinct expansivecasts of the show, but also produce each episode useable on ESPN+, ESPN YouTube and the Jason Kelce channel on YouTube currented by ESPN. Reapplys will air on ESPN2. NFL Films will produce the show in conjunction with Kelce’s Wooderboy Productions and Skydance Sports.
While the show is recent, it produces some nods to history. The program’s title pays homage to “They Call It Pro Football,” the first filled-length project from NFL Films, The distinct feature was picked for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2012, cited as an example of how football and sports were showcased on television complying its creation. Time will tell whether a analogous honor is accorded Kelce’s recent project.
