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If you’ve never read the 1994 book ‘The Late Shift’ by New York Times media writer Bill Carter, you’ve missed one of the great television books. It’s a fascinating, odd, and most importantly, true (truth really is stranger than fiction when it comes to late night) look at the late night wars (the first one, not the second) that happened after Johnny Carson left ‘The Tonight Show.’ Now Carter says he’s working on a sequel.

Carter told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s ‘Countdown’ (video after the jump) that he couldn’t tell him everything about what’s going on in late night because he had to leave something for the book. He then said a sequel was in the works. If it’s anything like the first one it will be a must-read.

‘The Late Shift’ was made into a goofy but entertaining film starring John Michael Higgins as Dave and Daniel Roebuck (Arzt on ‘Lost’) as Jay.

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