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Good. About time to get rid of this asshole.
In a shocking move, CBS is ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
next year, and apparently exiting the late-night television business altogether.
The network, citing financial pressures, said the cancellation will take
effect in May 2026, the normal end of the broadcast TV season.
The decision is particularly surprising because “The Late Show” is typically the highest-rated show in late-night. And the timing is bound
to raise questions because it comes just two weeks after the parent
company of CBS, Paramount, settled a lawsuit lodged by President Trump
against CBS News.
The settlement – and Paramount’s pending merger with Skydance Media – spurred speculation about Colbert’s future at CBS. Colbert, after all,
is one of the staunchest critics of Trump on television.
Colbert alluded to the online worrying about his fate when he returned
from vacation on Monday night. He condemned the Paramount settlement on
air, likening it to a “big fat bribe,” and he joked that his new
mustache would protect him from the corporation: “Okay, okay, but how
are they going to put pressure on Stephen Colbert… if they can’t find him?”
CBS, however, said in a statement that “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 corporate financial pressures are real; Paramount laid off another
3.5 percent of its workforce just last month.
Due to plunging ad revenue, “The Late Show” is no longer profitable, according to a source close to the network.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/cbs-cancels-stephen-colbert
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