“It feels real now,” Colbert told Seth Meyers, host of “Late Night” on NBC. “I’m not thrilled with it.”
Last summer, CBS announced that “The Late Show” would be canceled in May 2026, but did not reveal a specific date. The company insisted the move was “purely a financial decision,” but it came as parent corporation Paramount was attempting to complete a merger that required FCC approval.
The merger was approved a short time later, causing many ― even some of Colbert’s rivals ― to doubt the company’s reasoning.
“I know how finances of late-night television shows work, and it’s just ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense at all,” Kimmel said on Ted Danson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast. “So, when you hear things that are obviously lies, you have to assume that there are more lies behind it.”
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