It only took nine tries and a looming cancelation, but “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is now the best late-night show on TV, per the Emmys. At Sunday’s Emmy ceremony, the iconic talk show won for Outstanding Talk Series — a category it’s been nominated in nine times and never won. The nightly series bested reigning champion “The Daily Show” (which had won two years in a row) and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The latter program actually campaigned for Colbert following CBS’s controversial decision in July to cancel “The Late Show.” Citing a “challenging backdrop” for late-night TV, the powers-that-be axed the 33-year-old television staple in what they called “purely a financial decision.”
However, Paramount Global (CBS’s parent company) was trying to close a deal to merge with Skydance at the time, which required approval from the FCC — a government agency controlled by the Trump administration. Cutting Colbert,…
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