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The Stephen Colbert<\/a>-hosted late-night show will end on Thursday, May 21, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n CBS<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Colbert<\/a> revealed the news during an appearance on rival talker Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a>, which is set to air tonight (January 27) on NBC<\/a>, per LateNighter.<\/p>\n CBS surprisingly canceled the show in July, days after the comedian had called his parent company Paramount Global<\/a>\u2019s settlement of a lawsuit from Donald Trump<\/a> a \u201cbigfatbribe.\u201d The news came a month before David Ellison<\/a>\u2019s Skydance closed its merger with Paramount<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related: Trump Celebrity Supporters: Famous Folks In Favor Of The 47th President<\/p>\n Execs at the broadcast network stressed that the move was \u201cpurely a financial decision…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Late Show is coming to an end, and the goodbye party now has a date. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2253316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2253315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stephen-Colbert-Reveals-\u2018The-Late-Show-End-Date.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253317,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253315\/revisions\/2253317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}