Late Night TV Is Obsolete (was: [NEWS] CBS cancels "Late Show With Stephen Colbert")

On 7/19/25 2:58 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-07-18 3:04 AM, Your Name wrote:

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"Financial decision" ...
translation: greedy-ass Stephen Colbert wanted a lot more money and we're not paying.
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    CBS to Cancel 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
    Citing 'Financial Decision'
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    TV's ongoing problems with late night have come for Stephen Colbert,
    with CBS announcing Thursday that it plans to end his "Late Show"
    after the next TV season, citing a "financial decision."
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    The maneuver - which ends years of original late-night programming
    at CBS that started when the network lured David Letterman from NBC
    in 1993 - comes as the economics of wee-hours TV have begun to
    accelerate, with media companies growing wary of the high price tags
    involved in producing the shows while the young viewers they try to
    attract watch more of them via digital video.
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<https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-cancel-late-show-stephen- colbert- financial-decision-1236464356/>

 The whole lot of the current crop of late night hosts should be fired for their sheer smarminess. Colbert, Stewart, Kimmel, and the rest. Get someone genuinely funny like Craig Ferguson who has fun with his guests instead of trying to lecture the audience on what their politics should be. That's *my* prescription for fixing late night TV.

Yes, but...
Yes, late night is now dead because someone thought it was a keen idea to make all the late night hosts ultra-woke, reactionary, Democrat partisans. (To be fair, I don't really think that's true of Jimmy Fallon, who seems more like an "everyman-drunk comic". But it's true of all the rest.) And replacing most of those with at least non-partisan (or bi-partisan) hosts would help.
But the truth is that late-night TV talk shows were destined to die anyway. They were originally a product of the "three network universe", and really have no reason to survive in the "post-500 channel TV streaming universe".
If something like "The Soup" can't even survive these days (and it looks like YouTube and TikTok pretty much killed that), then the late-night talk shows have no hope of surviving! even if they were depoliticized.