The Late Present with Stephen Colbert throughout Thursday’s July 25, 2019 present.
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“The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” will broadcast its closing present subsequent Could, CBS mentioned Thursday.
The community, which has aired “The Late Present” with Colbert as its host since 2015, mentioned it’s ending the franchise after a “historic run.”
“We take into account Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and can retire ‘THE LATE SHOW’ franchise at the moment,” CBS executives mentioned in a joint assertion. “We’re proud that Stephen known as CBS residence. He and the published will likely be remembered within the pantheon of greats that graced late night time tv.
“That is purely a monetary resolution in opposition to a difficult backdrop in late night time,” they added. “It’s not associated in any approach to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues taking place at Paramount.”
Colbert introduced the information on his present Thursday, noting that he realized the information simply the earlier night time.
“It is not simply the tip of our present,” he mentioned. “I am not being changed. That is all simply going away.”
“The parents at CBS have been nice companions,” he added.
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., mentioned Thursday that he had simply completed recording a phase with Colbert, a vocal critic of the Trump administration, and questioned the community’s clarification for canceling the present.
“If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Present for political causes, the general public deserves to know,” he mentioned on X. “And deserves higher.”
CBS’ mum or dad firm, Paramount, is within the midst of an $8 billion merger with Hollywood studio Skydance. However the deal has been delayed for months as talks with attorneys for President Donald Trump dragged on after he filed a lawsuit over an interview the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” aired with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Paramount agreed in precept on July 2 to settle the go well with by paying $16 million to Trump’s future presidential library. Nevertheless, Paramount International mentioned on the time, “this lawsuit is totally separate from and unrelated to the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval course of.” Trump’s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, is investigating the deal.
Colbert just lately criticized the settlement between Paramount and Trump on “The Late Present,” calling it “an enormous fats bribe.”
“Paramount is aware of they may have simply fought it as a result of in their very own phrases, the lawsuit was fully with out benefit,” he mentioned, referring to how Paramount beforehand described the go well with earlier than settling.
