CBS will end "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and retire "The Late Show" franchise in May 2026, the company announced Thursday.

In case anyone worried Stephen Colbert was going to go quietly into the night after CBS canceled The Late Show, it’s clear he won’t.

Bob Odenkirk recently gave his take on the upcoming end of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While discussing the cancellation during a Comic-Con interview, Odenkirk compared Colbert’s future to Conan O’Brien.

A review by Fox News Digital found that left-wing journalists and other media figures made hundreds of appearances on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly said he predicted the demise of Stephen Colbert one day before the network canceled him and "The Late Show." CBS announced Colbert's cancellation on July 17, something O'Reilly predicted in a video apparently recorded earlier but posted to his YouTube channel on July 18.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs on CBS, whose parent company, Paramount Global, is in the midst of a merger with Skydance. The reported $8 billion deal was delayed by a la

Paramount announced last week that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” would be ending in May 2026. While the company claimed the move was a purely “financial decision,” speculation has swirled over whether Colbert’s sharp criticism of Trump had anything to do with his ouster as Paramount looked to get its merger approved.

The Late Show' host Stephen Colbert said President Donald Trump's attacks on Barack Obama were distracting from his handling of the Epstein files.