((Ktla) – – “Late offer with Stephen Colib” It is close to its end next May, according to CBS News and Paramount.
The advertisement issued by Colbert, 61, came during the recording of the show on Thursday.
“I want to tell you something that I discovered only last night,” Tell Colbert the direct audience While the cameras were rolling. The advertisement was met with “boos” from the audience.
“Next year will be the last season,” Colbert continued. “It is the end of” The Late Show “on CBS … all this only goes away.”
in Statement of CBS NewsParamount said the “The Late Show” privilege will end in May 2026, at the end of the broadcast season, and that the decision to withdraw the plug was for financial reasons only.
“We consider Stephen Colib to be dispensed and will retire” The Late Show “at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS Home. He will be remembered and broadcast in Pantheon of great people who have a late TV at night.”
The statement added that the decision comes against a “difficult background late at night” and has nothing to do with how to perform the offer.
This step is the latest in some pruning late at night in CBS. In 2023, the network “The Late Late Show with James Corden” brought somewhat, as the opportunity to end the “Late Late Show” concession completely. This program has been followed by “The Late Show” since 1995.
The Colbert’s period started in “The Late Show” in September 2015, when he took the tasks of the original host, Late Night Legend David Letterman. Colberty rose to fame as a host of the famous news gallery in “The Colbert Report”, which lasted from 2005 to 2014.
During the registration on Thursday, Colbert expressed his regret for the end of the primary element late at night, saying, “I hope someone else will get it.” However, Colbert said he is looking forward to finishing his job “with this unusual gang of idiots during the next ten months.”