• Seth Meyers delivered a scathing monologue at NBCUniversal’s upfront at Radio City Music Hall, targeting CBS and Donald Trump
• He joked that “CBS upfront” just describes how Paramount paid Trump to drop its $16 million lawsuit settlement
• Meyers opened by calling himself the FCC’s “next” target, referencing threats against his own show
• He is set to appear on The Late Show’s final week alongside David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and John Oliver
• Trump posted on Truth Social claiming Colbert was fired for lack of talent, not political pressure

Seth Meyers walked into NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall on Monday morning and wasted absolutely no time going after CBS — and the president of the United States.

The Late Night host opened his roughly 10-minute comedy set with a joke that landed with unmistakable weight in the current media climate. “I’m Seth Meyers — or as the FCC calls me, ‘next,'” he said, a direct nod to FCC Chair Brendan Carr reposting Trump’s call to fire him on X. It got a laugh. It also made a point.

From there, Meyers pivoted to NBC’s big win: for the first time in over a decade, the network will claim the broadcast crown for total viewers in the 2025-2026 season, dethroning CBS. “After over a decade, we have taken down CBS,” he said. “Well, the Ellisons did, but I’d like to think we helped.”

And then the knives came out.

“Seriously, what’s going on over there? They’re so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next year, Survivor is in the Strait of Hormuz,” Meyers said to applause. He followed that with his sharpest line of the morning, riffing on the fact that Paramount skipped the traditional upfront presentation format this year — opting instead for smaller events across the country and intimate dinners with clients and talent. “CBS did not hold an upfront presentation this year because ‘CBS upfront’ just describes how they paid Trump to drop the lawsuit.”

The Colbert Backdrop Makes It Personal

The jokes hit harder given the context. Meyers is one of five late-night hosts — alongside David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and John Oliver — set to appear during the final week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert’s last episode airs May 21, exactly ten years after he made his debut on the CBS talk series. CBS confirmed the show’s cancellation just three days after Colbert called Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump over an edited 60 Minutes interview a “big, fat bribe.”

“I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles: it’s ‘big, fat bribe,'” Colbert said on air in July 2025. The network announced the cancellation shortly after, framing it as a retirement of the franchise along with its “irreplaceable” host.

Trump, for his part, addressed the situation on Truth Social, insisting the decision wasn’t entirely his doing. “Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Night. That is not true!” he wrote, before attributing the cancellation to what he called a “pure lack of TALENT” that was costing CBS $50 million a year in losses.

Meyers, of course, knows exactly where he stands in this picture. The FCC threat against him is real — Trump has spent months escalating his attacks on the Late Night host on Truth Social, at one point calling him “the least talented person” in television history and suggesting his anti-Trump commentary was “probably illegal.” That history made his “next” opener feel less like a throwaway gag and more like a statement.

He Spread the Roasts Around

Meyers didn’t limit his fire to CBS. He took aim at Netflix, noting the streamer had relocated its upfront event to Sunset Pier 94 on the Hudson River. “Netflix is hosting its upfronts at a pier on the Hudson River, because once a Netflix show hits two seasons, that’s where they dump its body.”

On the impending merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery — and the combined Paramount+/HBO Max streaming service it would produce — Meyers deadpanned: “So now you’ll get all your favorites in one place. Plus Paramount+!”

He also turned the lens on his own parent company, Comcast, joking about its failed bid for Warner Bros. Discovery: “Comcast actually made a bid too, but no one thought we were actually gonna get it. It was kind of like that one friend who always pretends to reach for his wallet after the check comes. ‘No, no, Comcast, you can get it next time.'”

On Peacock’s slow march toward profitability: “Comcast said on its most recent earnings call that Peacock is approaching profitability in the same way Kevin Hart is approaching seven feet tall.”

He also celebrated NBCUniversal’s poaching of Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan from Paramount in a reported $1 billion deal, joking that it means he’ll “finally get a call from my dad asking, ‘What channel is NBC on?'” And he closed on one final dig at his Eye Network rivals: “NBC is turning 100 years old this year. Which means right now, it’s watching CBS.”

Meyers will be back in front of a CBS camera soon enough — appearing alongside his fellow late-night peers to send Colbert off in style. Whatever gets said on that stage on May 21, you can bet it won’t be subdued.

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• Vin Diesel announced four Fast & Furious shows are coming to Peacock at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation in New York
• Diesel will executive produce the live-action scripted series but has not been confirmed to appear on screen as Dom Toretto
• The pilot will be written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who previously collaborated on NBC’s Shades of Blue
• The broader EP team includes franchise veterans Neal Moritz, Chris Morgan, and Jeff Kirschenbaum
• The final Fast & Furious film, Fast Forever, is still set to hit theaters on March 17, 2028

The Fast Saga may be in its final lap on the big screen, but the franchise is hitting the gas in a whole new direction. Vin Diesel took the stage at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation in New York on Monday and dropped a bombshell: four shows set in the Fast & Furious universe are coming to Peacock.

The announcement drew one of the bigger reactions of the morning, and Diesel — flanked by Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon — made clear that this has been a long time coming. “For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” Diesel told the crowd. “They wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.”

He credited NBCUniversal chairman Donna Langley with making the leap feel right. “It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all,” Diesel said, “because that’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space.”

What We Know About the Shows

Details are still thin, but here’s what’s confirmed: at least one of the four projects is a live-action scripted series, set up at Peacock through Universal Television. Diesel will executive produce via his One Race banner alongside Fast & Furious franchise producer Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film. Also on board as EPs are Chris Morgan — who wrote several of the films — and Jeff Kirschenbaum.

The pilot for the scripted series will be written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman. Daniels is a busy man right now: he just landed an NBC series order for a new take on The Rockford Files, and he and Coleman previously worked together on the NBC drama Shades of Blue. That’s a solid pedigree for a franchise that’s always prided itself on character as much as carnage.

As for whether Diesel himself will actually appear on screen as Dominic Toretto? That’s still an open question. He’s confirmed as an executive producer, but there’s been no announcement of him stepping in front of the camera for any of the four shows.

A Franchise That Keeps Growing

The Fast & Furious universe has never been shy about expansion. The franchise already spawned the big-screen spinoff Hobbs & Shaw in 2019, and Diesel, Moritz, and Morgan are also executive producing an animated Fast & Furious series at Netflix from DreamWorks Animation. Four Peacock shows would push that universe into genuinely sprawling territory.

The numbers back up why NBCUniversal is betting big here. Across eleven films, the franchise has earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office — and it’s marking its 25th anniversary this year with a special screening of the original film at the Cannes Film Festival. That’s a fanbase that has proven, over and over, it will show up.

The theatrical run still has one more chapter left. Fast Forever — the final installment — is scheduled for March 17, 2028. But if these four Peacock shows come together the way Diesel is envisioning, the family isn’t going anywhere after that. It’s just moving to a different screen.

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