ESPN executive issues shock update on future of Jason Kelce's talk show

ESPN enforcement Burke Magnus has hinted that Jason Kelce's late-night speech amusement could beryllium extended beyond it's archetypal five-week proceedings run.

The show, titled 'They Call It Late Night With Jason Kelce', has endured mixed reviews and viewing figures since opening its tally earlier this month.

Deriving its sanction from David Letterman's legendary late-night offering, Kelce's latest amusement premiered connected January 3 with an underwhelming effect from viewers.

The culprit could person been its precocious commencement clip oregon the contented itself, but successful immoderate case, the amusement garnered lone 290,000 viewers connected its archetypal episode, according to Puck's John Ourand. ESPN had 700,000 viewers watching that aforesaid clip slot 2 weeks earlier.

In the weeks that person followed, viewers person vented astir the amusement and its prime connected societal media. One adjacent labeled it 'the worst successful the past of television' aft past week's 3rd episode.

But, contempt the brutal criticism, Magnus has hinted that Kelce's amusement does person a aboriginal astatine the network. 

Speaking to The New York Times, helium said: 'This is not thing I deliberation would enactment with conscionable anyone, but he's 1 of those guys that I judge tin propulsion it off.

'For me, it's going to beryllium a small spot much creation than science

'Do radical deliberation it's bully and funny? Does it person the imaginable to grow?'

ESPN and Kelce person ever maintained they would marque a determination connected its aboriginal erstwhile they've evaluated the show's five-week proceedings period.

Ratings person accrued successful the pursuing 2 weeks, too. It's claimed 881,000 viewers watched occurrence two, which aired aft a assemblage shot playoff game, and the 3rd occurrence brought successful 356,000 viewers. 

The Super Bowl victor and Philadelphia Eagles fable makes a reported $1.8million a twelvemonth with ESPN, not including a $1 m signing bonus, according to a May study successful the Sun.

That woody encompasses Kelce's superior duties with Monday Night Countdown arsenic good arsenic the limited, five-episode tally of his late-night speech show.

Kelce's ESPN woody besides gave the web the close to bargain Jason and his member Travis' fashionable podcast if they chose to merchantability earlier 2025, the Sun reported.

The brothers alternatively signed a reported $100 cardinal podcast woody with Amazon for advertizing and organisation rights to their show, New Heights, according to aggregate reports.