After serving as custodian of NBC’s late-night for years, George Cheeks, Paramount’s Chair of TV Media who oversees CBS, became the executive who last year canceled CBS’ venerable late-night franchise The Late Show.
Cheeks brought up his background as NBC executive in charge of late-night when asked about CBS’ recent decision to replace the outgoing Late Show With Stephen Colbert with Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen as a time buy, meaning that the network is paid a fee by Allen for them to carry his show, with Allen’s team selling the ads as a way to try and make profit.
Profitability was CBS’ goal with the switch too.
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“We landed on it for a couple reasons,” Cheeks said at at CBS’ fall 2026 schedule reveal. “One, we did a one season deal. So, we are still going to develop
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