I’m currently watching, via DVR, the last 11:30 edition of Nightline.

After 33 years, some of them at #1 in the time slot, it’s being moved to 12:30 so Jimmy Kimmel Live can take the earlier slot. That’s happening on a Tuesday, so Kimmel’s “debut” wouldn’t clash with Monday night’s college football championship on ABC’s sister channel ESPN.

The last 11:30 Nightline’s big piece: Barbara Walters with Mariah Carey. The other segments: Making money selling unwanted Xmas presents, and a theater troupe’s one-hour condensed parody of all six Star Wars movies. At the end, cohost Cynthia McFadden simply asked viewers to join her and the gang at the new time slot, as if that new time slot were not in the post-midnight wee hours.

Not exactly a rousing sendoff to a series that began as a temporary series of bulletins about the Iran hostage crisis, and morphed into the Big Three networks’ second big documentary showcase after 60 Minutes. Nightline is being buried without a wake.