A return to late night?

In typical Craig Ferguson zig-when-the-others-zag fashion, it appears our fearless leader could find his way back to the late night airwaves after nearly eight years away.

A half-hour show called Channel Surf with Craig Ferguson is in the works, in which Craig and friends will look back on, and no doubt hilariously comment on, current shows on TV, perhaps in the spirit of Joel McHale‘s The Soup, which ran on E! for a decade.

It’s being pitched to station groups to run in syndication, so whether, where and when it might run is still up in the air. Craig has been in Los Angeles this week, meeting with station executives. Longtime writer and half of Secretariat Joe Bolter will be a part of the show as well.

Sony Pictures Television, with companies like Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures Television in its ancestry and hundreds of shows, and a current slate of shows including Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Shark Tank, The Crown, and perennial syndicated favorites Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune is behind the project.

It may be the spring before we know if the show gets the green light, so we’ll keep you posted.

Comedy Tour Continues
In the meantime, Craig continues to perform standup comedy. His current tour will make stops in Charlotte, NC and Brea, CA in February and March.

Join or Die
Since leaving the Late Late Show in 2014, Craig won two Emmys on Celebrity Name Game, hosted ABC’s The Hustler, and History’s Join or Die, the opening clip of which can be seen below.

Video courtesy: History

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