{"id":596528,"date":"2026-05-21T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:34:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-urges-viewers-to-boycott-cbs-after-stephen-colbert-finale-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596528\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel urges viewers to boycott CBS after Stephen Colbert finale | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> has urged viewers to \u201cnever watch CBS<\/a> again\u201d after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s<\/a> finale on Thursday (21 May).<\/p>\n

Kimmel reminded his audience that his show, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! will be going dark in support of Colbert and his team, whom he praised as \u201cglorious\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a swipe at the network, Kimmel said: \u201cI hope the people who did the pushing feel ashamed of themselves tonight, although I know they probably won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that he will be tuning into the finale of Colbert\u2019s show to wish them a \u201cfond farewell\u201d, but then will no longer be watching CBS<\/a>. \u201cDon\u2019t ever watch it again,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n

CBS\u2019s long-running Late Show franchise comes to an end on Thursday after 33 years. It originated in 1993 with David Letterman, who later passed the torch to Colbert in 2015.<\/p>\n

The network announced the cancellation last July in a statement, describing Colbert as \u201cirreplaceable\u201d and citing a \u201cfinancial decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel has urged viewers to \u201cnever watch CBS again\u201d after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s finale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[195601,183800,6494,309,1725,96,6496,11237,183803,108,2605,18306,195603,2207,6487,1671,217,391,15219,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-aston-villa-f-c","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-english-premier-league","tag-entertainment","tag-full-length","tag-horizontal","tag-match-sport","tag-morgan-gibbs-white","tag-morgan-rogers","tag-nottingham","tag-nottingham-forest-f-c","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-tv","tag-two-people","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596528","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=596528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}