{"id":517296,"date":"2026-04-07T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:38:13","slug":"cbs-reveals-how-it-will-replace-stephen-colbert-in-late-night-schedule-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517296\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS reveals how it will replace Stephen Colbert in late-night schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CBS has filled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u2019s spot<\/a> in the late night schedule.<\/p>\n

The network announced Monday that Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen will take over the 11:35 p.m. slot starting May 22 \u2014 the day after Colbert\u2019s Emmy-winning Late Show<\/a> airs its final episode.<\/p>\n

Comics Unleashed is a comedy talk show featuring Allen, a media mogul and the founder of Allen Media Group, as well as comedians including Nate Bargatze, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Haddish, Gabriel Iglesias and Cedric the Entertainer. It first premiered in September 2006 and has been airing in the 12:35 a.m. hour since After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson ended <\/a>last June.<\/p>\n

The roundtable show will air two half-hour episodes back to back from Monday to Fridays for the 2026-2027 season as part of an expanded time buy agreement. Then, the 12:35 a.m. slot will be filled by Allen\u2019s comedy game show Funny You Should Ask, which is hosted by Jon Kelley and has been airing since 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cI created and launched Comics Unleashed 20 years ago so my fellow comedians could have a platform to do what we all love \u2013 make people laugh,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cI truly appreciate CBS\u2019 confidence in me by picking up our two-hour comedy block of Comics Unleashed and Funny You Should Ask, because the world can never have enough laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"StephenStephen Colbert’s late night show will end in May (Getty Images)\"MediaMedia mogul Byron Allen will replace Stephen Colbert’s late night show with his comedy talk show and game show (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The move comes less than a year after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was canceled in July,<\/a> with CBS execs calling it an \u201cagonizing\u201d decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,\u201d executives said in a statement at the time. <\/p>\n

However, there has since been speculation<\/a> that the cancellation might have been to appease Donald Trump <\/a>because Paramount, which owns CBS, relied on the presidentially-controlled FCC to approve its $8 billion sale to Skydance. Colbert has long been a vocal critic of Trump, most recently making fun of the President\u2019s firing of US Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/a><\/p>\n

Colbert took over as host of The Late Show from David Letterman in 2015. The storied franchise will conclude<\/a> May 21 after 33 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time,\u201d a joint statement from CBS execs said last July. \u201cWe are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}