Is Late Night TV Really Dying?

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2026 will see the end of The Late Show , CBS’s longest-running late-night talk show. The cancellation of this mainstay, which has been around since 1993 and is currently still the highest-rated in its time slot, has inspired much discourse regarding the network’s desire to appease Donald Trump in anticipation of the Paramount-Skydance merger . The President has certainly spent too much of his precious time on this Earth being mad at Stephen Colbert . CBS denied that the decision to end the series was related to this controversial deal, and sources insisted that mounting costs were to blame. Insiders claimed that the show was costing them $40 million a year ( Jimmy Kimmel thinks this is nonse

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