Larry Wilmore: 'Nightly Show' will blend 'Daily Show,' 'Politically Incorrect' formats

If Larry Wilmore is nervous about the launch of "The Nightly Show" a week from Monday, he didn't show it during his Q&A Saturday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

Wilmore described the half-hour show that will fill 11:30 p.m. slot vacated by "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central as a hybrid of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Politically Incorrect." The first half of the show will present a look at some key events of the day, while the second half will feature a roundtable discussion with a handful of participants that he promises will go "without a net."

"The panel discussion will deconstruct events," Wilmore said. "We'll have a nice balance of the scripted element and the non-scripted."

The show has a handful of contributors that will not serve as correspondents in the same way "Daily Show" features them -- Wilmore himself was the show's "senior black correspondent" for years -- but more as contributors of comedic bits and perspective.

Wilmore and "Nightly Show" exec producer Rory Albanese and head writer Robin Thede emphasized that the show aims to add a different perspective on news and events to latenight.

"I'm not interested in doing a show where I give my opinion and people react to my opinion. Our show is more about the discovery of things. I want people who will teach me something," he said. "We'll have people on who maybe get their minds changed" after discussing a particular issue.

Wilmore was of course asked about his reaction to the carnage in Paris this week after the killings of 12 members of the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo by extremists in retaliation for printing cartoons they deemed offensive to Islam.

"It's very tragic and I think we are all affected," Wilmore said, noting that his staff and the "Daily Show" team was rattled by the incident.

"They're starting to kill satirists just as a brother's launching his show," Wilmore said. "The timing of that is a bit scary." More seriously he observed, "I give those guys in France a lot of credit for the type of courage" they demonstrate with their publication.

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Larry Wilmore: 'Nightly Show' will blend 'Daily Show,' 'Politically Incorrect' formats