Late-Night Hosts Desus and Mero Are Leaving Viceland for Showtime

Premium network grabs buzzy duo for first weekly late-night talk show

Late night’s most distinctive duo—and the hosts of Viceland’s buzziest show—are switching cable networks.

TV and podcast hosts Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez) will be leaving their Viceland late-night show Desus & Mero next week, signing a new deal with Showtime for a weekly late-night talk show that will debut in 2019.

The currently untitled new series—Showtime’s first-ever weekly late-night talk show—will feature Desus and Mero talking with guests about pop culture, sports, music, politics and more.

“We have waited a long time to enter the talk-show space, and we were only going to do it if we felt like we had the next big thing,” Showtime Networks president and CEO David Nevins said in a statement.

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