Colbert’s final week on CBS delivered a 11:35 ratings blowout, outdrawing Fallon and Kimmel combined across both total viewers and adults 18–49.

Colbert has specifically defended PBS on-air. In April 2025, after the Trump administration announced plans to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from NPR and PBS, he joked on The Late Show that ...

Jimmy Fallon is headed back to primetime next week with a new season of Password—and NBC is giving the show more than just a single summer berth. Season 3 of the Keke Palmer-hosted game show, which ...

Get stories like this in your inbox: Sign up for LateNighter’s free daily newsletter. First on LateNighter: Stephen Colbert left CBS late night last Thursday night, but viewers kept watching. Nielsen ...

Maybe it didn’t occur to CBS that the answer to the financial challenges facing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was to dump that old theater on Broadway and set up shop in Colbert’s basement, with ...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be over, but Stephen Colbert’s charity auction habit appears to have survived the finale. Also up for bid: two autographed pieces of the Only in Monroe set—the ...

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Samantha Bee is heading back to TV, and back to her native Canada. The former Daily Show correspondent and Full Frontal host will headline The Ambassador, a 10-episode half-hour comedy for CBC set to ...

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Jimmy Kimmel is the odd man in on late night this week, with Jimmy Kimmel Live! turning out new episodes as most of late night takes an extended Memorial Day break. Kimmel, who was off Monday for the ...