# US Late Night Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Subscription and International\ **Created:** [July 17, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785 "2025-07-17T23:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/onair/32/88553_2.png) [@OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/OnAir)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/1 "2025-07-17T23:21:59Z")
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert axed as of May and the Late Show brand being retired. ---
**Author:** ![OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/onair/32/88553_2.png) [@OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/OnAir)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/2 "2025-07-17T23:23:10Z")
> **[‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Ending Next Year With CBS Retiring...](https://deadline.com/2025/07/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-ending-next-year-cbs-1236461787/)** > > In a shocking move, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is ending in May 2026. “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season.  We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will... ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/3 "2025-07-17T23:25:12Z")
I find it incredibly hard to take seriously their reasoning based on everything happening and the fact that if they wanted to save money there is a lot of fat they could have cut from it first. ---
**Author:** ![OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/onair/32/88553_2.png) [@OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/OnAir)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/4 "2025-07-17T23:30:02Z")
I kind of agree - although that staff and show can’t be cheap necessarily? Versus whatever they are going to put in. It’s sad ---
**Author:** ![MossPickle](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mosspickle/32/414255_2.png) [@MossPickle](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/MossPickle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/5 "2025-07-17T23:30:49Z")
Does this mean 10’s late night schedule will have something else post-midnight now ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/6 "2025-07-17T23:32:15Z")
> [@OnAir](#): > > kind of agree - although that staff and show can’t be cheap necessarily? No, agreed, it isn’t cheap. It’s bloated as is, they don’t need a band, they don’t need a theatre (although I think CBS owns it anyway), they could downsize the staff. It could be much leaner, but a week after publicly calling the network’s payout to Trump a ‘Big fat bribe’, and the sale STILL not being signed off on, do we really not think cancelling Colbert wasn’t part of the quid pro quo of getting a sale over the line? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@JohnsonTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JohnsonTV)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/7 "2025-07-17T23:35:39Z")
Could The Daily Show be next on the firing line? > **[Jon Stewart Reacts to ‘Daily Show’ Cancelation Rumors](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-reacts-to-daily-show-cancelation-rumors/)** > > Stewart, who has ripped Paramount Global’s $16 million settlement with Donald Trump, offered his candid thoughts about the show’s future. ---
**Author:** ![OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/onair/32/88553_2.png) [@OnAir](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/OnAir)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/8 "2025-07-17T23:38:19Z")
Well they can’t show a show that’s not being made anymore ---
**Author:** ![TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/tvhead/32/160_2.png) [@TVHead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TVHead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/9 "2025-07-17T23:40:08Z")
That has to go too, unless Trump’s obsession was just with Colbert/Jimmy/Seth. It’s clear that Paramount has no intention of protecting its brand from news to entertainment, all to get this sale over the line, and paying off a corrupt government to do it. ---
**Author:** ![DDN](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/ddn/32/443648_2.png) [@DDN](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/DDN)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/10 "2025-07-17T23:46:57Z")
![IMG_9677](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/4X/b/6/3/b63fce9e7766ace82f4bd20ab137792d87c7e39e.jpeg) Unfortunately I don’t have a source for where these numbers came from ---
**Author:** ![nimeton](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ed655f/32.png) [@nimeton](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/nimeton)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/11 "2025-07-18T00:18:55Z")
> [@TVHead](#): > > That has to go too, unless Trump’s obsession was just with Colbert/Jimmy/Seth. It’s clear that Paramount has no intention of protecting its brand from news to entertainment, all to get this sale over the line, and paying off a corrupt government to do it. Without trying to open a can of worms and acknowledging Australia is very small fry, I wonder if any of this also played into decisions around the project’s axing. ---
**Author:** ![Aurora](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/aurora/32/249208_2.png) [@Aurora](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Aurora)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/12 "2025-07-18T00:59:35Z")
They won’t have to, Home Shopping can cover from midnight. They’ve already given up from 11pm with the 6pm program repeat. ---
**Author:** ![LiamP](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/liamp/32/300932_2.png) [@LiamP](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/LiamP)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/13 "2025-07-18T05:28:27Z")
**Current state of Network TV Late Night as of today (18/7/25)** Colbert - Confirmed to end next May, Late Show brand retired Kimmel - Contract up for renewal in 2026, has stated before he may not renew (LA Times article linked below) > **[How Jimmy Kimmel preps for the Oscars and why the end of his talk show may be...](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-02-20/jimmy-kimmel-talks-about-his-fourth-go-at-oscar-hosting)** > > With 2 years left on his contract for ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," the 56-year-old comedian ponders walking away after 21 years. To do what? Well, he doesn't quite know just yet. Fallon - Contract extended last year, will remain host of Tonight Show up to 2028 Meyers - Contract also extended until 2028, although with cuts to the show’s budget resulting in it losing its house band ---
**Author:** ![WestKnight](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/westknight/32/321147_2.png) [@WestKnight](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/WestKnight)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/14 "2025-07-18T05:55:44Z")
And on the cable side of things: Oliver - Contract extended in Dec 2023 through 2026 Maher - Contract extended in Mar 2024 through 2026, though he had expressed his wishes to hang up his coat back in December last year > **[Bill Maher Threatens To Quit HBO’s ‘Real Time’ Due To Trump Fatigue](https://deadline.com/2024/12/bill-maher-threatens-to-quit-real-time-1236193202/)** > > Bill Maher revealed that he is considering quitting Real Time with Bill Maher, his HBO show that has been on the air since 2003. **Stewart - Contract extended in Oct 2024 to the end of 2025** ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/34f0e0/32.png) [@yellow\_sock](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/yellow_sock)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/15 "2025-07-18T06:12:36Z")
Such a shame that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is finishing up in May 2026. I don’t mind his show and the guests he has. Although he has relied a tad too much in recent times on Trump - with daily monologues about him and not much on other daily topical events. Late show peaks were the “Letterman vs Leno era”. ---
**Author:** ![ElCapitanCranky](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/elcapitancranky/32/531872_2.png) [@ElCapitanCranky](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/ElCapitanCranky)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/16 "2025-07-18T10:06:59Z")
This smells of Paramount sucking up to the Mutant Orange to get the Skydance merger through, although I’d buy the cost cutting excuse, given how South Park is being delayed too. I wonder if they continue programming late nights or give it back to affiliates. ---
**Author:** ![Radio\_TVGuy](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Radio\_TVGuy](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radio_TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/17 "2025-07-18T10:44:22Z")
> [@MossPickle](#): > > Does this mean 10’s late night schedule will have something else post-midnight now Nothing, just straight to Home Shopping infomercials. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Pirce](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/nick_pirce/32/230312_2.png) [@Nick\_Pirce](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Nick_Pirce)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/18 "2025-07-18T10:51:27Z")
Colbert not being replaced I remember it debuting in 1993 with Letterman ---
**Author:** ![Radio\_TVGuy](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Radio\_TVGuy](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radio_TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/19 "2025-07-18T11:50:21Z")
> [@ElCapitanCranky](#): > > given how South Park is being delayed too. And how Paramount pulled all 26 seasons of the show off Paramount+ worldwide (excluding the United States). ---
**Author:** ![MossPickle](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mosspickle/32/414255_2.png) [@MossPickle](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/MossPickle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785/20 "2025-07-18T11:52:42Z")
> [@Radio\_TVGuy](#): > > And how Paramount pulled all 26 seasons of the show off Paramount+ worldwide (excluding the United States). Isn’t it coming to 10 fast-tracked later this year [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/us-late-night-shows/28785.md?page=2)