De Mare has served as associate director under longtime director Jim Hoskinson, who announced his retirement during the taping of The Late Show on Thursday night. She joined The Late Show in Sept. 2015 and has worked with Colbert’s production team for 20 years, having previously served as associate director on The Colbert Report.
The end of The Late Show at the end of the 2025-26 season will leave CBS without a late-night presence for the first time since 1993, when David Letterman moved from NBC to launch late night talker. The cancellation news came just ahead of CBS’ parent company Paramount Global closing a merger with David Ellison’s Skydance.
Colbert has been a consistent ratings leader among the network’s 11:35 p.m. shows for much of…
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