{"id":2034478,"date":"2025-09-19T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2034478"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:52:22","slug":"shari-redstone-insists-stephen-colbert-show-cancellation-was-not-tied-to-skydance-deal-says-late-night-tv-financially-not-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/shari-redstone-insists-stephen-colbert-show-cancellation-was-not-tied-to-skydance-deal-says-late-night-tv-financially-not-viable\/","title":{"rendered":"Shari Redstone Insists Stephen Colbert Show Cancellation Was Not Tied to Skydance Deal, Says Late-Night TV \u2018Financially Not Viable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2447089\/\">Shari Redstone<\/a>, ex-chair of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0906551\/\">Paramount Global<\/a> who exited her family\u2019s ownership of the media conglom this summer in a sale to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0152219\/\">Skydance Media<\/a>, defended <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0070627\/\">CBS<\/a>\u2019s cancellation of \u201cThe Late Show With Stephen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1994637\/\">Colbert<\/a>\u201d \u2014 saying that late-night TV is a money-losing proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Redstone, speaking at the Axios Media and Trends Live conference Thursday in New York, said the cancellation of Colbert\u2019s show was not connected with the Trump administration\u2019s approval of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount-<\/a>Skydance deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that we had been looking at late night. It was financially not viable. It had been that way for a long time.<\/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>Shari Redstone, ex-chair of Paramount Global who exited her family\u2019s ownership of the media conglom this summer in a sale to Skydance Media, defended CBS\u2019s cancellation of \u201cThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u201d \u2014 saying that late-night TV is a money-losing proposition. 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