In the days ahead of David Ellison buying Paramount, CBS fired Stephen Colbert. Per the network, it was “purely a financial decision.” Colbert countered that it is “reasonable” to assume there were politics at play; CBS had just settled a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes segment, and Ellison needed (and still needs) Trump’s Department of Justice to allow the growth of his media empire. Few TV personalities have been as harsh on Trump as Colbert, which is truly saying something.
So CBS is replacing The Late Show, which wraps its 33-year (22 of those with founding host David Letterman) run next month, with Byron Allen‘s panel show Comics Unleashed in a time-buy deal. In other words, it is Allen paying CBS for the airtime (and hopefully recouping its money via commercials) and not the other way around. That
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