{"id":2022643,"date":"2025-09-15T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2022643"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:17:10","slug":"the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-wins-emmy-for-outstanding-talk-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert-wins-emmy-for-outstanding-talk-series\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u2019 Wins Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It only took nine tries and a looming cancelation, but \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3697842\/\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u201d is now the best late-night show on TV, per the Emmys. At Sunday\u2019s Emmy ceremony, the iconic talk show won for Outstanding Talk Series \u2014 a category it\u2019s been nominated in nine times and never won. The nightly series bested reigning champion \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115147\/\">The Daily Show<\/a>\u201d (which had won two years in a row) and \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter program actually campaigned for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1994637\/\">Colbert<\/a> following <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a>\u2019s controversial decision in July to cancel \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076301\/\">The Late Show<\/a>.\u201d Citing a \u201cchallenging backdrop\u201d for late-night TV, the powers-that-be axed the 33-year-old television staple in what they called \u201cpurely a financial decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0906551\/\">Paramount Global<\/a> (CBS\u2019s parent company) was trying to close a deal to merge with Skydance at the time, which required approval from the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> \u2014 a government agency controlled by the Trump administration. Cutting Colbert,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took nine tries and a looming cancelation, but \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d is now the best late-night show on TV, per the Emmys. At Sunday\u2019s Emmy ceremony, the iconic talk show won for Outstanding Talk Series \u2014 a category it\u2019s been nominated in nine times and never won. 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