The arrival of Hurricane Sandy changed plans Monday for several television shows that tape in New York.
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, who had planned a week of shows from Brooklyn, will not go forward with Monday night's show, he announced about noon. The show hopes to return Tuesday, depending on the conditions.
Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert canceled Monday's shows on Comedy Central, and the network said that a decision on Tuesday's shows was yet to be made.
As of midday Monday, producers of David Letterman's late-night show on CBS and Jimmy Fallon's on NBC said they planned to go ahead with the shows. Mr. Letterman's executive producer, Rob Burnett, said that the show would move up the taping time to 3:30 p.m.
But the producers on both shows said they were concerned about whether they would be able to find live audiences, with the New York subways closed.
Mr. Burnett said, “We don't know if we'll have an audience at all, but we will do a show anyway.â€
Bill Carter writes about the television industry. Follow @wjcarter on Twitter.
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