Culture CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year

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By Brian Stelter and Dan Heching, CNN
Thu July 17, 2025

In a shocking move, CBS is ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next year, potentially exiting the late-night television business altogether.

The cancellation will take effect in May 2026, the normal end of the broadcast TV season, the network said.

The Thursday night announcement came 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.

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.”

Colbert shared the news at his show taping on Thursday afternoon.

“Next year will be our last season,” Colbert said as audible ‘boos’ were heard in the live studio audience. “The network will be ending our show in May,” he said. “It’s the end of ‘The Late Show’ on CBS,” he added, going on to say, “This is all just going away.”

This is a developing story. It will be updated.
 
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I know we are all saddened by this news. I think it is important that we remember the good times with Skibbidi Two Scoops, like when he made contact with those aliens...
 
Damn, that isn't fair, CBS only gave him a decade to make a single funny joke. Surely he'd have caught his stride in the next decade or so.
 
I bet he's so mad that he's getting canceled while Joe rogan and Tony hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis are basically printing their own money lol
 
An unexpected surprise and a welcomed one.
If he's going, there's no way the others are holding up any better.

EDIT:

Yep, they're doing worse, and Gutfeld is leading in Q2 2025:

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Source: TV Insider
 
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Colbert and Stewart are relics of the early 2000s, they are pure George W. Bush era leftovers that should have been left in the dust. Colbert's gimmick was doing a Bill O'Reilly satire but he kept that one-trick-pony going several years past its sell-by date, and he was already well past his sell-by date well before he started hosting The Late Show.
 
Yes go fuck your Stephen I bet you and the other far left political comedians went to Epstein or Diddys pedophile blackmail parties. I hope the long arm of the law fucks these degenerates to death! Finally if it turns out Trump is on the list fuck him too!
 
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