The late-night TV lineup is present process a drastic shakeup this yr.
From the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert to ABC abruptly pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air, it’s been a time of upheaval for weeknight comedy packages.
Listed here are the most recent shifts within the 2025 late-night panorama:
Stephen Colbert Canceled
On July 17, the affable host shocked viewers when he introduced that his CBS present will finish in Might 2026.
“Subsequent yr will likely be our final season, the community will likely be ending The Late Present in Might,” Colbert, 61, stated on the air.
When the studio viewers started to boo, he remarked, “I share your emotions.”
“It’s not simply the tip of our present, but it surely’s the tip of The Late Present on CBS. I’m not being changed,” he stated. “That is all simply going away. I do need to say that the parents at CBS have been nice companions. … And I’m grateful to the viewers, you, who’ve joined us each evening, in right here, on the market, and all world wide.”
Following the information, CBS issued an announcement claiming that the choice was “monetary” and unrelated “in any solution to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount.”
Kimmel supported Colbert publicly, writing by way of his Instagram Story, “F*** you and all of your Sheldons CBS.”
And over the summer season, Andy Cohen — who hosts Watch What Occurs Reside on Bravo — weighed in on the cancellation, saying, “I believe it’s a tragic day for late evening tv. I believe it’s a tragic day for CBS. I believe Stephen Colbert is a singular expertise. He’s going to have an unbelievable subsequent chapter. I can’t imagine CBS is popping off the lights at 11:30 after the native information. I’m surprised. He’s certainly one of three late evening reveals deemed worthy sufficient for an Emmy nomination. He produces an excellent present.”
The Late Present Wins an Emmy
Colbert and his workforce triumphed on the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 14, lastly scoring the award for Excellent Discuss Sequence for the very first time after a number of nominations over the previous decade.
The group chanted Colbert’s identify as he took the stage to just accept the trophy.
“Generally you solely really understand how a lot you like one thing whenever you get a way that you simply is perhaps shedding it,” he stated in his speech. “Ten years later, in September of 2025, my buddies, I’ve by no means liked my nation extra desperately. God bless America. Keep robust, be courageous, and if the elevator tries to carry you down, go loopy and punch a better ground!”
Speaking to Us Weekly and different shops backstage on the Emmys, the comic stated that he deliberate to give attention to The Late Present in the meanwhile.
“I like what we do, and I need to go to work on Tuesday and for the following 9 months with these individuals and work arduous however have enjoyable,” Colbert stated. “We do the present with one another; we do the present for one another every single day. After which I’ve the privilege and the accountability that day to share with the viewers what we did. And I like it, and I do know it’s coming to the tip in Might, however I’m going to savor every single day of it. I need to land this aircraft completely superbly, and I bought nothing else on my thoughts.”
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air
The community surprised Kimmel’s followers when it pulled Jimmy Kimmel Reside! following backlash over his current feedback concerning the late Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Reside will likely be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to Us on Wednesday, September 17.
ABC’s transfer got here after Nexstar Media, who owns a number of TV stations, reportedly threatened to eradicate Kimmel from its late-night schedule. The corporate informed Selection in assertion that its “owned and companion tv stations affiliated with the ABC Tv Community will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Reside! for the foreseeable future, starting with tonight’s present.”
Kimmel, 57, made headlines for remarks he made throughout a Monday, September 15 monologue the place he spoke about Tyler Robinson, who’s accused of taking pictures and killing Kirk, a conservative commentator, throughout a September 10 talking engagement at Utah Valley College.
“The MAGA Gang [is] desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from certainly one of them and doing every little thing they’ll to attain political factors from it,” Kimmel stated throughout his speak present. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
Earlier than his monologue, Kimmel took to Instagram and condemned gun violence within the wake of Kirk’s loss of life.
“As an alternative of indignant finger-pointing, can we only for at some point agree that it’s horrible and monstrous to shoot one other human?” he wrote. “On behalf of my household, we ship like to the Kirks and to all the youngsters, mother and father and innocents who fall sufferer to mindless gun violence.”
