Stephen Colbert's CBS show is canceled. Is that the death of the late night?

The late show with Stephen Colbert was canceled by CBS. The news ended up like an earthquake on Thursday evening and came in the middle of the ongoing questions about the future both in the late night in the Tikok Age and the paramount paramount paramount, as it was pending with Skydance Media. CBS ends one of the most venerable franchise companies in the history of Broadcast -TV -it dates from 1993 when David Letterman the network joined the network after a sharp separation from NBC – will only lead to the fact that anxious eyebrows are raised.

CBS made the announcement in an explanation, which Colbert also described as “irreplaceable”. This, according to the network, is the reason why the series itself will end in May 2026 instead of continuing with a new host.

“We are proud that Stephen CBS called home. He and the show will be remembered in the pantheon of the sizes, the Late Night television was adorned,” continued the statement. “This is a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop in the late night. It is in no way related to the performance, the content or other matters of the show at Paramount.”

Colbert broke the news of his live audience when he recorded the show on Thursday, which is broadcast at 11:30 p.m. His announcement met a Boos choir. “Yes, I share your feelings,” replied Colbert. “It's not just the end of our show, but the end of The late show On CBS. I am not replaced. Everything just goes away. “He thanked CBS, spectator and the crew of the show of 200 people.

Colbert recently celebrated his 10 -season of the host The late showWhich often put in space. 1 in the reviews for the time and has been nominated for the top variety talk series Emmy for nine years, including this season. Ten years ago, this category recognized six separate shows. Now it is due to a downturn in the submissions to just three. The ratings have dropped late in the late night, as the spectators on YouTube and other social media platforms on clips hiking and even under this group there is much more competition for eyes than before.

The late show's with Emmy nominations, The daily show And Jimmy Kimmel Live!have been in the air in a similar way for decades. The former is also broadcast in a paramount network, comedy Central. Daily show flagship Jon Stewart Has a contract that runs in December 2025; Jimmy KimmelThe current contract expires in 2026 and it must not sign any other. “I think that's my final contract,” he said La times last year. “I hate to say it at all because everyone laughs at me now – every time I think that, and then it turns out that I am not the case. I have a little more than two years in my contract, and that seems to be pretty good. That seems enough.”

The news of The late showThe cancellation is loudly reproduced by the television landscape. At the beginning of this year, CBS canceled its 12.30 p.m. show. After midnightwhich Colbert Executive produced according to the host Taylor Tomlinson decided to leave the show. The network rejected it to find a new host for the program or to replace it with another original series. Tomlinson's former Times competitor, competitor, Seth Meyers, Host on Late night On NBC, but his show was also a victim of a tough financial reality. Meyers lost his 8g band last year – a step that one of his members, Eli Janney, attributed to budget cuts. Several media have picked up the dwindling resources and the relevance of Late Night in recent years, and Colbert's exit will make little help to turn this flood.

In his declaration on cancellation, CBS certainly hopes to strike inevitable speculation David Ellison This should merge with Paramount in an 8 -billion dollar deal. At the beginning of this month, Paramount enclosed a defamation lawsuit that the Trump administration created due to the processing of A 60 minutes Interview with Vice President Kamala Harris For 16 million US dollars – a result that was convicted by observers by senators Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Employed employee Jon Stewart.

“It still does not feel in the news networks – it feels like loyalty,” said Stewart in a recently carried out episode of The daily show. “You will be held on a standard that Donald Trump will never be satisfactory. Nobody can ever kiss his ass enough.” He also called the settlement “shameful”.

Stewart's show has now been left behind by rumors that she too could be canceled. This week Stewart turned to these whisper in his podcast. “You did not call me and said:” Do not make yourself too comfortable in this office, Stewart, “he said.” But let me tell something: I was thrown out of shit facilities than this. We will land on our feet. “