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CBS Canceling 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' After Next Season
- iwontberude 1y agoI hope now that he’s done selling out, he can return to the Colbert Report
- Dwedit 1y agoSame company owns both CBS and Comedy Central.
- cchance 1y agoMega Conglomerations basically fucking own everything, late stage capitalism
- jschveibinz 1y agoThey don't own you. Don’t be a victim--go and make something you love.
- dec0dedab0de 1y agohe could change the name and make it a podcast, but i haven’t really liked him since he was on the daily show.
- xnx 1y agoMr. Steven's Podcast
- plemer 1y agoIn what way do you think Colbert sold out?
- iwontberude 1y agoDoing a late night show for boomers instead of millennials that created him.
- plemer 1y agoMillennials don't watch TV.
- iwontberude 1y agoWe used to back in the day. Comedy Central had Colbert Report and Daily Show. Redditors culminated the Rally to Restore Sanity and Reason Rally in DC where thousands of (mostly) millennials flocked to the live performances MCd by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
- pm90 1y agoExtremely disturbing to see the US Press go the same way as the Indian Press did under Modi.
- Sai_ 1y agoAt some level, it is worse. The Indian press never sold us citizens koolaid about freedom, talking truth to power, and patted themselves on the back about winning Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. The Indian press knows it is a bottom feeder and doesn’t try not to be which gives space for critical thought to emerge (even if it masked as extreme cynicism - “everyone is corrupt”) which results in extreme skepticism of everyone.
- nwah1 1y agoThe Late Show has an elderly and shrinking audience. And, Colbert hasn't been funny in years, nor has he been challenging the powers that be. When he did the White House Correspondents' Dinner and roasted George W Bush, that was extremely edgy. The Colbert Report was also wickedly funny. But the Late Show makes John Oliver look like Lenny Bruce.
- whoknowsidont 1y agoThe Late Show was the only show to have positive viewership rates from Q1 to Q2 while maintaining the largest share of viewers. It's hardly a shrinking audience.
- metabagel 1y agoThe Late Show is basically tied with Jimmy Kimmel among 18 to 49 year olds, and everyone else is significantly worse. https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/ https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q... IMO, Colbert is consistently funny. His style has always appealed to me.
- dehrmann 1y agoI'd worry more about defunding public broadcasting or the Washington Post editorial stance. There's a good faith argument here that the cause was market conditions: > The genre has been struggling as the majority of the country migrates in droves to streaming entertainment and away from traditional broadcast and cable television... > The number of late-night shows has dwindled in recent years... > The genre has also experienced a sharp decline in advertising revenue in recent years...
- electroglyph 1y agodidn't he talk shit about the Paramount deal just a couple days ago?
- Flatcircle 1y agoShouldn’t be surprising, every late night show is going to end soon. They’re all too expensive
- nemomarx 1y agoHow expensive can they be? One set, minimal editing?
- dawnerd 1y agoIt’s currently the number one late night show. It’s not about money. It’s because the president pressured them after Colbert called the network out Tuesday for taking a bribe.
- dec0dedab0de 1y agoI think Gutfeld is number 1 overall, and has been for a while. But TV ratings overall are down so low, I haven’t had cable since 2003, and at the time people thought I was a radical. Now it seems like the people that have cable are the rare ones, Especially if there is noone over 45 in the house. There is a reason they all format their shows in a way that is easy to break up into youtube videos. If they didn’t, most kids under 30 wouldn't even know who they are
- xnx 1y ago> I think Gutfeld is number 1 overall, and has been for a while. From what I saw, Gutfeld is top in that time slot, but not for late night overall. I agree that cable is crazy to pay so much money for and still have frequent and long commercial interruptions.
- 5555624 1y agoAssuming this table (https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/ https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q...) is accurate (and I am reading it correctly), Gutfeld has more average number of viewers than the other late night shows.
- ivape 1y agoTheir beefing over South Park as well: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-skydance-paramount-fight-1236314541/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sou... At the heart of the dispute: a new 10-year, $3 billion overall deal for Parker and Stone that would more than triple the valuation of the current deal that expires in 2027 Yeah. So that's not going to happen lol.
- paleotrope 1y ago"One possible factor in the negotiations: an $800 million loan that Park County took in 2023 from private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Parker and Stone could be squeezed for cash to repay roughly $80 million in interest per year, according to one person knowledgeable of the arrangement, who noted that Paramount may be open to paying more than $150 million annually in a new deal but not for 10 years." That's quite the loan.
- paleotrope 1y agoApparently they needed to refinance a 600 million loan from 2021. "The loan would be made through Carlyle’s credit arm and would refinance an existing $600 million debt facility provided by HPS Investment Partners in 2021, according to the report." What the hell have they been spending it on?
- x3n0ph3n3 1y agoMaybe some of that went towards Casa Bonita?
- paleotrope 1y agoThey said ~40 million. And that seems crazy high for a theme restaurant. I think they just don't know how to manage money.
- abtinf 1y ago> "[it's] purely a financial decision" > "It is not related in any way to the show’s performance" Naively, these seem like contradictory statements.
- x3n0ph3n3 1y agoIt could be that Colbert's pay has outpaced advertising revenue.
- whoknowsidont 1y agoYeah, definitely not related to the buyout nor the close ties that the executive team has to Trump.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoYes? If nobody watches your show anymore because you're an unfunny corporate mouthpiece, how do you justify the salary for you and your team?
- Capricorn2481 1y agoColbert had the highest ratings of any late night host and it's not even close. Even amongst dwindling ratings across all late night shows, he was big. Pretty hard to believe this was a purely financial decision made at the exact time he made his comments about Paramount. Also not sure how being laid off for criticizing your host networks back channel deals with the White House makes you a corporate mouth piece, but what do I know.
- joeyagreco 1y agoIf this were the case, wouldn't we see a new host instead of a complete cancellation?
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoWho would tune in to watch the show then?
- xnx 1y agoI'm in Central time and love Colbert, but I'd never watch it if I lived in Eastern and had to wait until 11:35 PM.
- DrNosferatu 1y agoReally confused about this: Why the flagging?
- nteleky 1y agoHonest, informed satire that's often more helpful in learning about real issues than "the news"; no surprise it's being cancelled. This and John Oliver are probably the last real holdouts in honest media in the current era, from what I've seen.
- bad_username 1y agoFrom my observations, Colbert's satire strictly represents one segment of the political spectrum. So it's either not informed, or not honest.
- cam_l 1y agoName it up. Or don't, whatever.. just be a chickenshit about it.
- HonestOp001 1y agoI will do it. The Covid vaccine propaganda. Could not be a better example of how it leaned one way.
- queenkjuul 1y agoLmfao
- whoknowsidont 1y agoWhy are these very interesting and topical threads being flagged? I'd love for someone pressing that button to explain the rationale.
- bananapub 1y agobasically every article that is anti-the-US-regime gets flagged.
- whoknowsidont 1y agoSad!
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- iancmceachern 1y agoWhy was this post flagged?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoSome kind community members wanted to make it stand out to others who peruse /active.
- Flatcircle 1y agoThe show cost 100 million a year to make a loses 40 million a year. It's not just politics https://x.com/MattBelloni/status/1946236833668731390 https://x.com/MattBelloni/status/1946236833668731390
- kjsingh 1y agoIt's a long beef and Colbert was one of the talk show hosts Trump hated peculiarly :) https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/17/14944994/stephen-colbert-late-show-review-trump https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/17/14944994/stephen-colbe...
- RickJWagner 1y agoI’m not surprised that a late night host was let go, I’m surprised it was Colbert. Jimmy Kimmel has a well documented history of racist and sexist skits. Every time a new video of his past emerges, it’s got to be an embarrassment for his network. Poor luck for Colbert.
- metabagel 1y agoKimmel was awfully sexist with Adam Corolla.
- bitlax 1y agoReality, unbiased, asserts itself.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoAccording to Keith Olbermann, a far-ish left progressive, on his podcast The Late Show's cancellation it really was primarily due to financial difficulties of it being too expensive in a declining industry of traditional media where there are barely any OTA TV or cable viewers. Their overhead is too much and their internet audiences don't make them enough money. This is a classic horse and buggy company failing to adapt to an automobile world. He also made it known he doesn't care personally for Colbert who rapidly took a proverbial wrecking ball to David Letterman's set to effectively damnatio memoriae his predecessor and obliterate all potential memorabilia.
- euroderf 1y ago> rapidly took a proverbial wrecking ball to David Letterman's set What's this about ? Letterman had the skyline behind his desk; was anything else memorable ?