“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will end in May 2026, Colbert and CBS announced on Thursday. The company said it will retire “The Late Show” franchise, and called it “purely a financial decision.”
“‘THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT’ will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season,” the company said in a statement. “We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘THE LATE SHOW’ franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.”
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” the network added. Paramount is the parent company of CBS News.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Paramount needs Trump admin approval to merge with Skydance and they already had an issue with Trump being a huge bitch over being shown to be the turd he is on the network. Colbert is an outspoken critic of Trump, so despite the show being the best performing late night show on air they’re gunna axe it try to help the merger go through.
Free speech is dead and, unsurprisingly, conservatives killed it.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Best performing late night show
The format isn’t long for this Earth.