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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
After Jimmy Fallon Was 'Shocked' By Stephen Colbert's Late Show Cancellation, The Tonight Show Host's New Primetime Series Will Air Twice Per Week
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 2025 TV schedule has been a tumultuous time for the world of late night television, including the quiet cancellation of After Midnight in the spring and the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert's The Late Show in July. In fact, that latter cancellation caused such massive waves that huge names in pop culture spoke up in solidarity with Colbert. Jimmy Fallon, longtime host of The Tonight Show, expressed support for the Late Show icon... not long before his new show got a premiere date, officially being set to air twice a week on NBC starting in late September. How Jimmy Fallon Reacted To The Late Show's Cancellation Just like Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s Jimmy Kimmel from ABC, NBC's Jimmy Fallon didn't hold back from showing support for the CBS host who was technically his competition in late night television. He posted in a since-expired Instagram Story that he was "just as shocked as everyone" about Stephen Colbert's Late Show and "really thought I'd ride this out with him for years to come." He went a little farther when he joined the likes of fellow NBC late night host Seth Meyers as well as Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Adam Sandler, and more celebs for a funny bit on The Late Show in one of the first shots back at CBS for the cancellation. Basically, there was some serious solidarity between late night TV hosts when one of their own got the worst kind of news. For Fallon, however, his future on NBC is looking pretty good. Jimmy Fallon's New Show Gets A Premiere Date Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show isn't going anywhere for the time being, and he's in fact debuting a brand new show starting this fall. In the same announcement that confirmed Law & Order: Organized Crime is returning to NBC, On Brand with Jimmy Fallon received its premiere date(s). The new program's first night of the week will be Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET, starting on September 30. The second night of the week will be Fridays at 8 p.m. ET, starting on October 3. The Tonight Show will continue to air Monday - Thursday, as has been the case since NBC cut the Friday night broadcasts last September. So, what is On Brand with Jimmy Fallon? Well, the unscripted series follows Jimmy Fallon after he starts a marketing agency and fills it with the most creative and competitive people he can find, with Bozoma Saint John as the "On Brand Agency's" Chief Marketing Officer to mentor and evaluate the participants. In each episode, the participants of the On Brand Agency will work with a major brand that is looking for a new campaign, including Captain Morgan, Dunkin', KitchenAid, Marshalls, Pillsbury, SONIC, Southwest Airlines, and Therabody. By the end, one creative will be left standing and receive a cash prize as well as the experience gained from competition. Fallon is on board On Brand as host, executive producer, and creator. What About The Tonight Show? I don't want to claim that anything is guaranteed in late night TV after the shocker of Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancellation, but Jimmy Fallon renewed his deal with NBCUniversal as the host of The Tonight Show through 2028 last summer. It seems that he should be safely on the air for another few years if all goes according to plan. Seth Meyers also renewed his deal with NBCUniversal to continue hosting Late Night through 2028. Late Night follows The Tonight Show on weekday nights. That may partially explain Meyers' somewhat optimistic take about the future of late night TV... but then again, he made those comments before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert got the axe. For now, though, there are indeed reasons to be hopeful about the future of late night on at least NBC. Plus, if you're a fan of his work on The Tonight Show, you can get more of Jimmy Fallon starting this fall on September 30 with the premiere of On Brand with Jimmy Fallon. Solve the daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
The Laws of Economics Apply to the Late Show
Ben Sasse is right that the cancellation of 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' illustrates the decline of a common American culture ('Colbert and the End of Late-Night TV,' op-ed, July 21). That's not something to celebrate. But the failure of the show illustrates another point that is exciting: Leftist cultural icons aren't immune to the laws of economics. Mr. Colbert put leftist political comedy first, effectively alienating at least half the country. He seems to have assumed that, given his lofty cultural perch and the elite deference shown to people like him, he was insulated from any potential decline in viewership. But losing your audience means losing revenue, and while studio executives tolerated him for a time, the losses became too steep to ignore.
Fox News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Ex-late-night host admits Colbert's show is getting canceled because it's 'hemorrhaging' viewers, money
Canceled late-night host Samantha Bee admitted Tuesday that Stephen Colbert's late-night show "hemorrhaging" money and viewers is the main reason it's getting canceled. Bee, whose TBS late-night program, "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," was canceled in 2022, reacted to CBS announcing the end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on the "Breaking Bread with Tom Papa" podcast. "You know, these legacy shows, like they are hemorrhaging money with no real end to that in sight," she told the host, comedian Tom Papa. CBS announced earlier this month that it would cancel "The Late Show" next May at the end of its broadcast season, clarifying that the cancellation was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night." A report from Puck News journalist Matt Belloni revealed that Colbert's show lost "more than $40 million a year." Many prominent liberals and Democratic figures have speculated the network had cut the show for political reasons, a notion both Papa and Bee said could be the case, but they also admitted that the show was a financial drain that no one was watching. Papa said, "I mean the show loses $40 million a year." "Yep," Bee replied. "So that's a reality," the host said. Bee agreed: "That's a reality." "The parent company is trying to curry favor with the president. So that's a reality," he added. Bee replied, "Yeah, I think both things are true. I think both things are just true and real. Like it definitely was hemorrhaging money." Papa agreed and Bee continued, saying that "legacy shows" like Colbert's and other late-night hosts' are floundering financially. She then went on to note that people are not watching these shows like they used to. "People are just not tuning in remotely, comparatively to how they used to. Well, people are literally on their phones all the time for one thing, so they don't necessarily need a recap of the day's events. They're very well-versed in what has happened," Bee added. Referencing the popular Netflix thriller "Squid Games," Bee quipped that people would "really rather watch like people just absolutely murder each other in a South Korean game show – just like watching people fall off cliffs to relax at night before nodding off." Elsewhere, Bee mentioned how President Donald Trump having to sign off on a merger between CBS's parent company, Paramount, and Skydance, probably exerted some pressure on the network to do something about Colbert, whose show is very anti-Trump. "It is also true that when the president of the United States has to give his sign-off on a corporate merger, the thing you can't do is make jokes about him. He's a thin-skinned idiot. And we know, he's like a pernicious cancer." For that reason as well, she told Papa it was a "no-brainer" that the network decided to let Colbert's show go.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Poll: Americans think Paramount is canceling 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' because of politics — and they don't approve
More favor (46%) than oppose (31%) "late-night talk show hosts getting involved in politics by speaking out on political issues." More Americans disapprove (40%) than approve (33%) of Paramount's controversial decision earlier this month to cancel CBS's long-running late-night program with host Stephen Colbert, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll. And while CBS has claimed the decision was 'purely … financial' — adding that it was 'not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount' — more Americans believe that politics rather than money was the real reason behind it. The survey of 1,729 U.S. adults was conducted in the immediate aftermath of Paramount's Late Show announcement, from July 24 to July 28 — a period that coincided with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally agreeing to sign off on the company's proposed $8 billion mega-merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance. Colbert is a sharp critic of President Trump, and skeptics have accused Paramount of canceling the Late Show not because late-night talk shows are losing money but because the company wanted to appease the Trump administration and get its Skydance deal over the line. Last October, Trump sued Paramount for the way CBS's 60 Minutes program edited an interview with his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris — and earlier this month, Paramount decided to settle with Trump and pay $16 million to his future presidential library, even though several legal experts said the case was frivolous. Colbert — who is scheduled to keep hosting the Late Show until it goes dark next May — mocked the settlement on-air, calling it a 'big fat bribe.' 'As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I'm offended, and I don't know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company,' Colbert told his audience. 'But just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help.' The new Yahoo/YouGov poll shows that more Americans agree with Colbert's theory of why his show was canceled than agree with other, more 'purely financial' explanations. When asked why CBS and Paramount are canceling the Late Show — and instructed to select all the reasons that apply — the share who select 'Paramount is trying to curry favor with the Trump administration' (37%) and 'Stephen Colbert is too critical of Donald Trump' (36%) is greater than the share who select 'the Late Show is losing money (32%), 'the Late Show is losing viewers' (30%) and 'the late-night format is losing relevance' (26%). Partisan preferences are clearly playing a role in the reaction to the Late Show's demise. Far more Americans think Colbert is liberal (53%) than think he's moderate (10%) or conservative (3%), and Democrats (72%) are six times more likely to disapprove of the decision than Republicans (12%). Still, there is no consensus that Colbert has gone overboard politically. In fact, more Americans (35%) say he is "about right" politically than say he's "too political" (28%). And more also favor (46%) than oppose (31%) "late-night talk show hosts getting involved in politics by speaking out on political issues." That might help explain why a majority of Americans still say they watch Colbert's content — either 'always' (5%), 'occasionally' (21%) or when they 'see clips online' (27%). The rest (47%) say they never watch Colbert. Finally, when Americans are asked to select up to three of their favorite late-night talk show hosts, Colbert (25%) ties Jimmy Fallon (25%) for first place, with Jimmy Kimmel (22%), Jon Stewart (19%), John Oliver (11%) Seth Meyers (7%), Bill Maher (7%), Andy Cohen (3%) and Taylor Tomlinson (2%) trailing behind them. __________________ The Yahoo survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1,729 U.S. adults interviewed online from July 24 to 28, 2025. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 election turnout and presidential vote, party identification and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Party identification is weighted to the estimated distribution at the time of the election (31% Democratic, 32% Republican). Respondents were selected from YouGov's opt-in panel to be representative of all U.S. adults. The margin of error is approximately 3.1%. Solve the daily Crossword
Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Piers Morgan can't believe people are surprised by ‘one-trick pony' Colbert getting canceled
"Uncensored" host Piers Morgan said Tuesday it was obvious why "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was slated for cancellation. As a guest on Fox News Channel's "Outnumbered," Morgan questioned why people can't understand Colbert's show was given the axe, saying it was a financial loser and had become boring with all the bashing of President Donald Trump. "I've never read so much – or heard – so much guff about a reason for a guy getting canceled," the "Piers Morgan Uncensored" host said. "His ratings were tanking, he was costing them $40 million a year, he had 200 staff." CBS announced earlier this month that it would cancel "The Late Show" next May at the end of its broadcast season. The network clarified that the cancellation was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night," and noted, "It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount." A report from Puck News journalist Matt Belloni revealed that Colbert's show lost "more than $40 million a year." Despite the network's statement and reports on the financial strain Colbert's show was having on CBS, many liberals still questioned if Colbert was being canceled for political reasons, especially since the network and Paramount recently agreed to an eight-figure settlement with Trump and needed approval from his administration for a corporate merger. Morgan blasted these views as conspiracy theories, making the point that the show became an inefficiently run financial burden that people got bored with. "Fox – you're number one by miles in cable, and you have these very like, nimble teams of people." He compared this to Colbert, saying, "200 people? And all they do all day is prepare anti-Trump jokes." He continued, "So whenever I watched Colbert – which was not a lot, whenever I did – endless sneering, mocking, Trump-bashing. You know what? It's just boring." Morgan added that other network late-night hosts, as well as those on cable, do the same thing. "It's a one-trick pony – Trump bashing, Trump bashing, Trump bashing. And what happened is, in the election, America went, 'You know what, we quite like Trump, so we're going to vote him back in because we're sick of you whiny liberals,'" he said.
