David Letterman Returns: My Next Guest Needs No Introduction Season 6 Release Date, A-List Guests, Plot, and Everything We Know

David Letterman is not done talking. Netflix just lined up two more rounds of his sit-down series, which means Season 6 lands in December 2025 — with a bonus Adam Sandler special hitting first to get everyone warmed up.

Release plan (and the Sandler appetizer)

Here is the rollout: the full sixth season arrives in December 2025, exact date still under wraps. Before that, Netflix drops a standalone episode with Adam Sandler on December 1, 2025. Think of it as a pregame show. Netflix has played this card before, tossing out one-off specials to tee up a season — previous pre-season spotlights have included John Mulaney, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Shah Rukh Khan.

How many episodes in Season 6? Netflix is keeping that part vague too. The series has never stuck to a strict count — Season 1 had six, Season 5 had three — so expect something in the three-to-six range when the main batch lands later in December.

What the show actually is (and why it works)

If you have not watched yet, this is not the usual late-night sprint. Each episode is one conversation that runs a solid 40 minutes to an hour, without commercial breaks, and it does not always live in a studio. Letterman will follow guests into their world for on-location segments — the best-known example is the Zelenskyy episode filmed in Kyiv during the war. It is slower, more personal, and honestly that is the point.

The Adam Sandler special

Letterman meets Sandler at New York University — Sandler's alma mater — in front of a live student audience. They track Sandler's path from teenage stand-up to SNL standout to the guy who can crush broad comedies and slide into dramatic gear when he wants to.

Netflix shared a preview clip where Sandler gets painfully honest about bombing early on:

"I did this one show in Boston, and my dad and brother came to see it, and I ate it so hard in front of my dad, and I hated that."

"Stick with that."

(That last line is the emcee's response after asking Sandler if he was the class clown in school — a brutal little gut punch.)

The timing gels with Sandler's current momentum too. He has been getting strong notices for his dramatic turn in Jay Kelly alongside George Clooney, and he recently set Netflix's opening weekend record with Happy Gilmore 2. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter about the Happy Gilmore 2 surge, he did not exactly undersell it:

"We couldn't be happier. It is something that I can't describe. Just walking down the street, hearing people talk about it even before it came out — we were like, something fun is going on here."

Renewed times two

Netflix renewed My Next Guest Needs No Introduction for both Season 6 and Season 7 right after Season 5 wrapped earlier this year (per Variety). So yes, more after December too.

Season-by-season snapshot

• Season 1 (2018): Guests included Barack Obama, George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai
• Season 2 (2019): Ellen DeGeneres, Tiffany Haddish, Melinda Gates
• Season 3 (2020): Kim Kardashian, Robert Downey Jr., Dave Chappelle
• Season 4 (2022): Billie Eilish, Will Smith, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Season 5 (2024–2025): Miley Cyrus, Charles Barkley, Caitlin Clark
• Season 6 (December 2025): Adam Sandler confirmed via the Dec. 1 special

Who is behind it

Letterman, 78, is still the engine here. After 33 years in late night (NBC's Late Night, then CBS's Late Show) and a 2015 retirement, this Netflix run proved he did not retire from curiosity. Behind the scenes, the series is produced by Jax Media, Imagine Entertainment, and Worldwide Pants (Letterman's own shop). Executive producers include Tom Keaney and Mary Barclay for Worldwide Pants, and Justin Wilkes and Yolanda T. Cochran for Jax Media/Imagine Entertainment. Paul Shaffer — Letterman's longtime bandleader — composes the music.

The track record

Across five seasons, the guest list has bounced from presidents to pop stars: Barack Obama, Tina Fey, Jay-Z, Robert Downey Jr., Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, to name a few. The show won the Emmy for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special in 2024 and has racked up five nominations since 2018 (per the Television Academy).

The bottom line

Season 6 hits December 2025, but the first taste is Adam Sandler on December 1. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction streams exclusively on Netflix, and if you are already subscribed, you are set — the standard plan starts at $7.99/month. Now the only question is who Dave puts in the chair next after Sandler.