From Mediapost.com:

Fox Returns To Late-Night, Counters ‘SNL’

FOX ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR A late-night talk show to air Saturday nights, the first step in what could be a full-fledged return to the late-night battlefield.

“Talk Show with Spike Feresten”–the working title–will launch this fall and air from midnight to 12:30 A.M., following MADtv. The show sounds more like “Saturday Night Live,” which it will compete against, than “The Tonight Show.” Fox says “Feresten” will mock the celebrity-host interviews that are a late-night staple, while guests will deliver the monologues and participate in comedy sketches a la “SNL.”

In picking Feresten as host, Fox is taking a page out of NBC’s book. Feresten is an acclaimed comedy writer, much as Conan O’Brien was when he was given a show by NBC in 1993.

I’m usually pretty secretive about my jobs, a tendency that has been described as “judicious” and “prudent” and “idiotic.” Okay, mostly “idiotic.” This is a self-promotion-based industry, after all….

Anyway - that, above, is my show.

Yes, that’s right, the job I told you so much about on my first day, back in September:

The job? All I can say at present is that it involves a major network, I’ll be writing and, I think, performing, and - should the network air it - it’ll be really, really funny. Beyond that, I’ll have to play it cool for now.

Today was my first day of work (after getting the job around dinnertime yesterday). Lots of nice people, but they made fun of my Hannity & Colmes lunchbox.

Yes, that one. Remember how incredibly candid I was about it a few weeks later?

Here’s what I can tell you about what I’ve been doing. It’s a new late night television show for a major network. We’re making six “test shows” which may or may not air. And it is, I think, bizarrely, ridiculously funny. Of course I’ll let you all know if the Gods of the Network decide to let this thing see the light of day.

So now, finally, I feel a little more comfortable talking about it. Let me give you the bad news and the good news…

The bad news is that this thing is on the fall schedule. Yep, you’ll be able to read my book before you’re able to see my show. Poor, poor you. And poor me - the fact that I’m starting on the show in half a year puts a serious crimp in my Hollywood hireability today. Feel free to offer me light yardwork in the coming months.

The good news is… well, it’s a groovy show. Spike Feresten, as you’ll see, is an instantly likable host. More importantly (to me), he’s an amazingly funny writer. During the course of making those 6 test shows, we put some incredibly stupid and unique things on camera while loosely following the format of a latenight talk show.

And it was the most fun I’ve ever had working in television. Sure, at one point I had to sit on the floor of a discount shoe store wearing nothing but a towel and a little shaving cream. Sure, I had to dress up like an old prospector one night, and get shot in the buttocks with a paintball on another… Sure. I’d do it all again. In fact, it seems likely that I will.

Will you like it? Definitely! Or else you’ll really, really hate it. At least you’ll get the chance to do one or the other this fall, when our tiny craft goes up against that legendary battleship, the S.S. SNL. In fact, I expect each and every one of you to do your part and watch us rather than them. That’s .3% of a Nielsen point right there! Take THAT, Admiral Michaels.