CBS Pulls Stephen Colbert!

CBS is ending late night. The Late Show is ending in 2026.

One of the biggest shocks in 2025.

To get the FCC to approve the Skydance merger with Paramount, Sheri Redstone will bend over backwards to appease President Donald J. Trump.

One of the president's critics is a comedian who has made fun of him and Republicans for years. Redstone will cut to make this deal work.

It will backfire.

CBS announced The Late Show is ending after the 2025-26 season. It rocks the junk food media and publicly shocks all the hard working people who helped Stephen Colbert become an iconic late night host.

This falls on Redstone and her old Zionst ass.

The decision — which ends years of original late-night programming at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC in 1993 — comes as the economics of wee-hours TV have begun to accelerate, with media companies growing wary of the high price tags involved in producing the shows while the young viewers they try to attract watch more of them via digital video.

“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘The Late Show’ franchise” in May of 2026,” CBS executives said in a statement. “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.”

Colbert, who was informed of the network’s decision Wednesday evening, according to a person familiar with the matter, told the audience at the taping for Thursday’s broadcast about the matter.

There has been growing speculation that both Colbert and Jon Stewart, who hosts one broadcast of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” each week could be under growing scrutiny from executives at Skydance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central. David Ellison, who leads Skydance, has projected an image of being intrigued by the politics espoused by President Donald J. Trump, who Colbert and Stewart routinely skewer in monologues and commentary.

CBS has already been winding down its activity around midnight. The network recently cancelled “After Midnight,” a companion program that aired after “Late Show” and featured comedian Taylor Tomlinson. She decided to leave to focus on her own stand-up shows, even though CBS had sought a third season of the show.

America is in decline. Where elite billionaires are running things. 

A civil war is coming.

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Paramount is considering pulling South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Daily Show.