Stephen Colbert announced that CBS had canceled “The Late Show” during Thursday’s recording, sharing that the late evening program would not return after May 2026.
This CBS decision occurred only a few days after the host and the actor criticized the parent company Paramount in airy for its $ 16 million regulations with President Donald Trump during a “60 -minute” interview in 2024 with Kamala Harris. It didn’t take long for Colbert fans – and eminent politicians like the Senator of California Adam Schiff and the Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren – To draw attention to the time of cancellation on social networks.
“If Paramount and CBS ended” The Late Show “for political reasons, the public deserves to know,” said Schiff, who was invited to Thursday’s episode. “And deserves better.”
“CBS canceled Colbert’s show only three days after Colbert called CBS Paramount’s parent company for its $ 16 million regulations with Trump – an agreement that looks like Bribery,” Warren said, who has been frank on the regulations for months. “America deserves whether its program has been canceled for political reasons.”
Others wrote: “It is a political favor to Trump, clear and simple”, and others questioned: “It is a complete coincidence that this is presented in the heels of CBS bowing before the requests of Trump and Colbert makes fun of them?”
In a press release, CBS described the cancellation of “purely financial decision against a difficult context at the end of the evening”. George Cheeks, Amy Reisenbach and David Stapf published the joint declaration, which noted that the end of “The Late Show” after the 2025-2026 season “is not linked to performance, content or other questions of the show in Paramount”.
Many online have found the CBS declaration on cancellation difficult to trust – or at the very least. Colbert with so obviously the paramount task for the days before the verdict (the host and the late evening actor called the Trump colony “Big Fat Bribe”), publications on social networks already cite the monologue as the real reason for the cancellation of the program.
Others were disappointed to see the long series of late evening concluded – “The Late Show” took place longer than any show of this type outside “Late Night” and “The Tonight Show”.
You can see some of the reactions below.
You can watch Colbert’s announcement on the cancellation of “The Late Show” in the video below:
