Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 14

Last week started off strong, with Sonequa Martin-Green appearing on the January 14 edition of The Late Show.  She plays the lead (and a scientist) on Star Trek: Discovery, which airs on the CBS All Access streaming service in the U.S. and on Netflix elsewhere in the world.  The second season of the show premiered on January 17th (episodes are released weekly).

That same night Ryan Eggold was on Late Night with Seth Meyers.  Eggold plays a doctor and hospital administrator on the program New Amsterdam.

While The Daily Show didn’t have any science or technology guests, both science and technology were featured elsewhere in the program.  The show covered the recent Chinese (uncrewed) moon landing (starting around the 3:10 mark) on the 14th.  On the 15th correspondent Ronny Chieng filed a report about the latest Consumer Electronics Show.

The new MythBusters Jr. program continues on Wednesdays on the Science Channel in the U.S. (with repeats on the Discovery Channel Saturdays around noon).  No word about whether the show will be renewed, but it seems to be well received.  My own opinion is that the kids bring a youthful energy to the program and do so in numbers that might make this program stick around longer than the 2017-18 reboot with hosts Brian Louden and Jon Lung.