Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule

On 7/22/2025 11:16 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

  On 7/22/25 04:24, John Savard wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:16:01 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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    Smothering Free Speech is not beautiful in my very humble opinion.

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Nor in mine. I was merely referring to Trump's budget bill to indicate
that I felt Trump had a hand in it.
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John Savard

      CBS is owned by Paramount which wants to merge with Skydance. They
need the approval of a part of the Trump administration so Trump hates Colbert
who sees and reports him clearly.  So the give up the best late show on TV
in order to please the orange orgre and that is their financial bind.

A few days before the announcement of the cancellation, Colbert
explicitly went nuclear on CBS and Paramount for bending the knee
to Trump. They paid him $16M to get Trump to drop his lawsuit against
them for editing an interview on "60 Minutes" in a way he claimed
unfairly aided Kamala Harris. Pretty much every legal scholar
agreed that Trump had zero chance of winning this suit, but Paramount
caved to keep the merger deal from being blocked. Several 60 Minutes
staffers resigned in protest.
Colbert took CBS to task for this, describing the payment (correctly)
as 'a big fat bribe'
https://youtu.be/zzvx3L3DQb8?t=121
4 days later the show's ending was announced.
The one saving grace is that the show's current contract will be
allowed to run out, meaning the show continues until May 2026.
This Monday, on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show", Jon Stewart
went nuclear on CBS for firing Colbert:
https://youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?t=988
Paramount owns Comedy Central as well as CBS, so he was also
calling his bosses to account. We'll have to see if the axe
falls again.
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