The Stephen Colbert-hosted late-night show will end on Thursday, May 21, Deadline has confirmed.
CBS always said that the series, which has been running since 1993, was going to end in May after it emerged the franchise was being axed.
Colbert revealed the news during an appearance on rival talker Late Night with Seth Meyers, which is set to air tonight (January 27) on NBC, per LateNighter.
CBS surprisingly canceled the show in July, days after the comedian had called his parent company Paramount Global’s settlement of a lawsuit from Donald Trump a “bigfatbribe.” The news came a month before David Ellison’s Skydance closed its merger with Paramount.
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Execs at the broadcast network stressed that the move was “purely a financial decision…
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