Young people stay up after 11 PM???

The Hollywood Reporter reports that TBS plans to start programming from 11 PM to 1 AM, to which we say… about frikkin’ time.

As TV networks hem and haw about the changing landscape and how to react to shrinking audiences, very few seem willing to mess with the underlying assumptions of how to schedule: Premiere everything in the fall; primetime from 8-11; local news at 11; middle-aged White guys telling jokes and interviewing celebrities from 11:30 to 1; etc.

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