• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, March 11, 2025

Facts about John Mulaney’s new talk show set to premiere this week on Netflix are hard to come by.

This is because very little information is available on the proprietary website Netflix runs for the convenience of journalists on the TV beat. 

Netflix has landing pages for (probably) hundreds of its show. That’s where you find pictures available for use on websites like this one and some descriptive verbiage about the shows. 

Netflix calls this material “Info,” but the “info” Netflix provides can be a little scanty in the detail department.

There is no landing page at all on the Netflix press site for Mulaney’s new show, titled “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.” It starts streaming Wednesday night at 10 Eastern.

Elsewhere on the site, if you look hard enough, there is a page with information on the show in the form of a press release. 

I will use everything I can glean from this “info” a little later on. But what it does not have are crucial details a journalist looks for when covering a show launch, especially one like this one.

“Everybody’s Live” is described as running for 12 weeks, including this Wednesday. It is possible to interpret this information to mean that the show will be once-a-week -- hence 12 episodes. Plus, five-day-a-week talk shows do not usually premiere on Wednesdays. 

But interpretations are not facts. Nowhere in the press material (such as it is) clarifies whether the show is to be seen five days a week or one.

It is not unreasonable to wonder about this. Although the show comes on at 10 p.m. Eastern and 7 p.m. Pacific, it is styled like a network late-night show.

As such, it may be a Netflix attempt to join the nightly talk-show fray with one of its own. As a matter of fact, this is not a bad idea.

Also not provided is the length of each show. This is also a detail a journalist looks for to include in a story about any show.

Is “Everybody’s Live” an hour? Is it weekday or weekly? Will it really be live, or is the word “live” applied here in the same manner of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” which is not live?

On this last question, the answer seems to be yes, it will be live. In the press material unearthed by the TV Blog, Mulaney says so.

“We will be live globally with no delay,” Mulaney said, possibly at a press event for which I must have misplaced my invitation.

“We will never be relevant,” he vowed. “We will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.”

Celebrity guests and musical performances will be regular features of the show. Actor Richard Kind and a delivery robot named Saymo appear to be recurring on the show, but this was unclear too.

They were both seen on Mulaney’s last show on Netflix that was, in fact, a talk show. Titled “Everybody’s in L.A.,” the show ran for six episodes last year. It appears to be a precursor to the new one.

Five guests are listed for this week’s premiere -- Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, Fred Armisen, musical guest Cypress Hill and Jessica Roy, a personal finance columnist.

John Mulaney and Netflix have been in business together through three stand-up specials and “Everybody’s in L.A.” 

The company obviously thinks highly of him. The TV Blog does too. That’s why more information about his new show would have been helpful.