At the top of Thursday’s “Late Night,” Stephen Colbert announced that CBS will bring the show to an end in May. The network says the cancellation was “purely a financial decision,” but there’s speculation that Colbert’s recent criticism of CBS’s parent company, Paramount, was a factor.
I don't understand why the major broadcast channels are not available on smart TVs as part of their own live streaming services. Being available free over TV antennas only works in big cities. It isn't fair.
Financial decision my ass! The show is the top late night program. They are bowing down to the orange clown. We live in very scary times.
Wgaf. It's tv and if he wants a new gig he'll land one. If not you'll all survive.
Steven Colbert is simply the BEST. Every night I watch "Late Night with Steven Colbert" at home in Canada and I love it. SC deserves so much better. It's clear that Donald Trump had him in his sights for a long time. Let us wish him the same fate!
Self interest is the soft underbelly of capitalism. The concept of a greater good assumes equality for all. This is lost in Trump’s America - a national character flaw driven by fear and greed.
Oh no… so horrible. I enjoy colbert so much, a light in the dark. But, I will pay his flight if he decides to come here to Germany to make a show. Germany is in desperate need of a colbert!
At The #BrokenTimes 2 + 2 sometimes = 4 and sometimes it doesn’t bsky.app/profile/mark...
I find this hard to believe, a financial decision? This show is one of the highest rated nighttime shows.
CBS has NFL rights. I won’t be watching ANY football on CBS EVER. Suck d*ck, Paramount/CBS.
It’s because Kaptain Kankles is a thin-skinned bi*ch and CBS capitulated. Late Night with Stephen Colbert wad THE ONLY SHOW ON CBS I WATCHED. Bye bye CBS ~ cancelled Paramount.
Missing from the “it’s a financial decision”: Any elaboration that suggests it’s the show’s finances that are the issue, and not the finances surrounding the pending sale.
Yep, this
Save our comedians. Boycott Paramount.
The show had strong ratings.
And would have low production costs given the set is mostly just a desk and some chairs
And in what world is the cancellation of Colbert not a direct consequence of Donald Trump’s presidency. This one cuts deep. Yet another sign — and warning of worse to come.
Nothing of value was lost. He needs to some time to learn to be a comedian again.
TRUMP must be stopped with resistance instead of letting him do what a dictator would do. He sits in the chair at the white house like a pig in shit! With everyone kissing his ass
Paramount could have manned up and just admitted that it didn’t appreciate Colbert’s criticism of itself or Trump - but people are cowards
Careless talk costs profits: Stephen Colbert and CBS to go their separate ways after CBS conclude that he could be an expensive overhead and seriously damage their bottom line.
Goodbye to free speech and intellectual freedom
This is obviously a financial decision! CBS viewers deserve better! I will watch The Late Show to support Stephen Colbert but I will boycott all CBS shows NOW! Actions have consequences! CBS and Paramount made a huge mistake! If their deal with Skydance fails then I believe in Karma!
What a shame
The corporations are afraid of the Evil #MadKingDonald and that is a very bad sign.
Financial lol yes it was . Saying anything about the administration in the USA and be sued by Trump! What a joke the USA has become. Trumpastan is the new name for USA ! History repeats itself!
I’d love to see him picked up on another platform. He’d be a good replacement for Real Time with Bill Maher.
Occam's razor: it's the ratings
Yeah, right—a “financial” decision. Colbert has been number one in late night for the last 10 years. That means significant advertising revenue for CBS and Paramount. This is all about CBS bending the knee to Trump. Trump demanded the cancellation in retaliation for Colbert’s monologues about him.
Just another example of how Trump is becoming so powerful in controlling what he wants to hear via the media. They and eventually all of us will cave to this maniac.
Colbert could do a 10-minute monolog for Tik Tok, FB, IG each day and be as influential and profitable as his current show. That's CBS's economic reality. Oh, and they did this because of the Trump shake down...for sure! Or maybe the Epstein List jokes. Trump doesn't like the truth.
Fuck CBS and Gaye king for that matter. Suck ups. Done with these soul sucking, trump loving sycophants.
Because all of your masters have bent the knee to a tyrant.
CBS is dead. Paramount is dead. They're nothing to me.
How can this be the United States of America?
Keep the conspiracy talk going. It's great for clicks and ad revenue.
The orange Nazi butthole wins again.
Clearly the truth hurts
No, it was BRIBE for the merger. Quit sugar coating everything Trump does and says you chickenshits.
Give him Fallon’s spot. Or if Kimmel retires, give him that spot.
The truth about CBS’s decision to end Late Night with Stephen Colbert is starting to creep out. This doesn’t pass the smell test. Just more capitulation by Paramount to silence Colbert’s intelligent and very funny criticism of Trump.
You forgot to mention that CBS is now owned by an important political ally of Trump, the family of right-wing billionaire Larry Ellison. You increasingly make a mockery of journalism.
The MAGA autocracy strikes again.
“Speculation”. You think this won’t get to you, but it’s not like your fondness for fascism in the 1930s. This happens here, not in Germany. It will get to you and pretty soon.
He will make a different conglomerate RICH. And I refuse to watch CBS any longer.
Why don’t you elaborate on the PSA deals that Trump made with Ellison’s son? bsky.app/profile/ella...
Welp if it stands in the way of the merger. It is a financial decision.
The timing makes it very obvious. He criticised Trump and Paramount, and now he is fired for financial reasons. Come to Canada Cobert.
It will be interesting to see what they put in that slot to replace it.
No one will watch whatever they put there. CBS is DEAD.
Shame and share.
"speculation"
CBS sucks ass.
Boycott CBS Boycott Paramount Colbert will be snatched up by HBO or Netflix. Colbert will be just fine.
@elinhas.bsky.social
Não esperava que a galera fosse mostrar que tavam de migué nessa desculpa
Criticism for what? What was the Criticism about?
My guess, the settlement required that Colbert be canceled but it wasn't written down
What a sad loss
Time to cancel my Paramount+ (and all affiliates) subscription. @paramountplus.com #cbs #colbert
There's ample evidence that the financial excuse was bunker, ample evidence that the decision was based on politics and appeasement, and zero evidence that you weighed the evidence before bothsidesing this story.
*bunk
We know who's behind. It had been a long time since political cancelations were a trend. Since maccarthysm ended BTW. Another crypto-fascist paranoid era led by republicans and J. E. Hoover which culminated with the Hollywood blacklist to which majors gladly complied.
He's the first to go bc he spoke truth to power, cbs will continue to lose ratings and viewers. Huge mistake, Colbert will be better in the long run is my hope. He doesn't pander to nazis‼️
He will just go to another network, and CBS will go bankrupt because they have nothing else.
Shari Redstone was just diagnosed with cancer, is a close friend of Trump, and needs Trump's FCC's permission still to sell her Paramount Global to Liberal David Ellison's Skydance Inc. His conservative dad Larry Ellison is now the 2nd richest billionaire.
I would say stop watching CBS but that wont be difficult. Besides the Late Show, CBS is garbage....🤡💩