According to Deadline, The Late Show is coming to close, and the series finally has a date for the final episode to air. The late-night talk show series hosted by Stephen Colbert (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show) will end on Thursday, May 21. CBS said the series would be ending in May after it emerged the franchise was being cut out.
As per Deadline, Colbert shared the news during his appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, hosted by Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking)which is set to air tonight, January 27, on NBC. CBS canceled The Late Show back in July canceled the series. This came days after the host called his parent company, Paramount Global’s settlement of a lawsuit from Donald Trump (The Apprentice, Two Weeks Notice) a “bigfatbribe.”
According to Deadline, it was claimed by the network that the move to cancel the series was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late-night” and “is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content, or other matters happening at Paramount.”
As per Deadline, Colbert’s take on Trump has not diminished since the announcement of the series being canceled and him being fired. On Monday night, he said, “I think we can all agree: F*ck ICE,” in response to the killing of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis. In the previous week, he mocked the idea of Trump’s “Board of Peace,” which has seen the president charging people $1B to join. “Now, admittedly, the idea of paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep,” Colbert said. “After all, CBS got to do it for just $16M.”
According to Deadline, since the announcement of his termination, Colbert has been on an award spree as the series won the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series back in September. In the upcoming month, he will receive the Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East.
“I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late-night tradition, which I hope continues long after we’re no longer doing this show,” he said onstage during the Emmys.