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weasel words from frump apparatchik who cancelled the show for political reasons
"Colbert took over on the Late Show from veteran host David Letterman, who hosted the show for 22 years, from 1993 to 2015. The show has had consistently high ratings in its slot and is often the highest-rated show in late-night.
The announcement comes as CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, attempts to close a merger with Skydance, after the deal fell apart last year.
Colbert is also a vocal critic of the US president, Donald Trump, but Paramount’s owners have been pushing the Trump administration to approve the sale of CBS to Skydance.
Paramount also just settled a lawsuit lodged by Trump against CBS News, a decision Colbert called “a big fat bribe” on the Late Show earlier this week.
“Paramount knows they could have fought it,” Colbert said on Tuesday’s episode, because the company itself had called the lawsuit “completely without merit”.
“And keep in mind, Paramount produced Transformers: Rise of the Beast – they know completely without merit,” he joked.
Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat who appeared as a guest on Thursday night’s show, later wrote on social media: “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.”
George Cheeks, co-CEO of Paramount Global and president and CEO of CBS; Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment; and David Stapf, president of CBS Studios, issued a joint statement saying the Late Show would “end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season”.
“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,” they said.
The statement added that the cancellation was “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.
www.theguardian.com
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moscow
"Colbert took over on the Late Show from veteran host David Letterman, who hosted the show for 22 years, from 1993 to 2015. The show has had consistently high ratings in its slot and is often the highest-rated show in late-night.
The announcement comes as CBS’s parent company, Paramount Global, attempts to close a merger with Skydance, after the deal fell apart last year.
Colbert is also a vocal critic of the US president, Donald Trump, but Paramount’s owners have been pushing the Trump administration to approve the sale of CBS to Skydance.
Paramount also just settled a lawsuit lodged by Trump against CBS News, a decision Colbert called “a big fat bribe” on the Late Show earlier this week.
“Paramount knows they could have fought it,” Colbert said on Tuesday’s episode, because the company itself had called the lawsuit “completely without merit”.
“And keep in mind, Paramount produced Transformers: Rise of the Beast – they know completely without merit,” he joked.
Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat who appeared as a guest on Thursday night’s show, later wrote on social media: “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.”
George Cheeks, co-CEO of Paramount Global and president and CEO of CBS; Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment; and David Stapf, president of CBS Studios, issued a joint statement saying the Late Show would “end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season”.
“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,” they said.
The statement added that the cancellation was “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.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to end in 2026 as CBS cancels show
Cancellation comes a few days after Colbert criticised network’s parent company for settlement with Trump, which he called a ‘bribe’
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moscow
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