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The late show with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, the CBS television network announced in an unexpected statement on Thursday.
This step “is a purely financial solution against a difficult background in the late night (television),” and “not related to the execution, content or other issues of the show,” the CBS said.
The announcement only takes place two weeks after the parent company CBS Paramount has decided the lawsuit when President Donald Trump stems from CBS interviews with his 2024 election rival Kamala Harris.
This step is closer to more than three decades, leaving the net without the first time since 1993.
Leading Stephen Colbert conveyed the news on the tape earlier on Thursday night, causing the Boos choir from the Live Studio audience.
“I want to say that people in CBS were excellent partners,” Kolbert said, adding, “And, of course, I am grateful to you, the audience who joined us every night here, around the world.”
Calbert was informed about the decision on Wednesday night, told the audience during his monologue on Thursday.
“Yes, I share your feeling,” he said when the crowd at the Ed Sullivana theater in New York “No” and broke out.
“It’s not just the end of our show, but it’s the end of the late show on CBS. I’m not replaced. It’s just going away,” he continued. “This is a fantastic job. I want someone else to get.”
A later show was created by CBS, BBC news partner, in 1993 as a NBC competitor. This happened after the dispute between the hosts of David Letterman and Jay Leno over who should succeed Johnny Carson in the wildly popular NBC show today.
Colbert assembled CBS from Letterman in 2015 and became one of Trump’s most unwavering critics on late night television.
Before seizing the work in a late exhibition, Kolbert was the leading “Kolbert” report on the central comedy – a program that transferred US conservative policy and culture.
The announcement of the end of the program came amid negotiations between Paramount and Skydance Media to combine two companies, and it will require approval of the US Federal Government.
Democratic Senator Adam Shiff posted on X on Thursday that he had ended the interview with Kolbert before the cancellation was announced.
He asked if the announcement was tied to a $ 16 million settlement (£ 12 million), the network agreed to pay Trump, writing: “When Paramount and CBS finished late political reasons, the public deserved to know.”
The settlement happened after Trump sued CBS last October, claiming that the network deceptively edited the interview, which aired in its 60 -minute information program with its presidential election competitor Kamal Harris to “tilt the scale for the benefit of the Democratic Party.”
Paramount said he would pay for the resolution of the lawsuit, but with the money allocated to the future Trump presidential library is not paid “directly or indirectly”.
Kolbert was the main critic of Trump and, when he was his stay, he hosted many democratic politicians. Last month, he held a discussion with Zakhran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who leads the race to become the next New York mayor.
The decision to cancel the program comes when the networks are struggling to attract young viewers against the background of competitions from the internet and podcasts, as well as increasing live television costs.
“We consider Stephen Kolbert indispensable and will retire” Franchise “late show,” the CBS said in her statement.
“We are proud that Stephen called CBS Home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the Pantheon of the Great, which decorated the TV late night.”
The rival networks of broadcasting, ABC and NBC will continue to broadcast their talk shows.
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