The Late Shift author: Networks execs would be too "afraid" to hire the female unknow

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...n version of James Corden as late-night host

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/if_a...ght_landscape/

A female version of James Corden, who was mostly unknown before being tapped to host The Late Late Show, would never happen, says late-night expert Bill Carter. "The reach for the unknown – which happened with James Corden – wouldn’t happen with a woman; they’d be afraid to do that," he says. That’s why you get famous female names like Amy Schumer and Tina Fey bandied about for open late-night jobs.