The late-night TV lineup is present process a drastic shakeup this 12 months.
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 applications.
Listed here are the most recent shifts within the 2025 late-night panorama:
Stephen Colbert Canceled
On July 17, the affable host stunned viewers when he introduced that his CBS present will finish in Could 2026.
“Subsequent 12 months shall be our final season, the community shall be ending The Late Present in Could,” Colbert, 61, mentioned 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, nevertheless it’s the tip of The Late Present on CBS. I’m not being changed,” he mentioned. “That is all simply going away. I do wish to say that the parents at CBS have been nice companions. … And I’m grateful to the viewers, you, who’ve joined us each night time, in right here, on the market, and all around the globe.”
Following the information, CBS issued an announcement claiming that the choice was “monetary” and unrelated “in any technique to the present’s efficiency, content material or different issues occurring at Paramount.”
Kimmel supported Colbert publicly, writing through his Instagram Story, “F*** you and all of your Sheldons CBS.”
And over the summer time, Andy Cohen — who hosts Watch What Occurs Dwell on Bravo — weighed in on the cancellation, saying, “I believe it’s a tragic day for late night time 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 considered one of three late night time exhibits deemed worthy sufficient for an Emmy nomination. He produces a superb present.”
The Late Present Wins an Emmy
Colbert and his crew triumphed on the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 14, lastly scoring the award for Excellent Discuss Collection for the very first time after a number of nominations over the previous decade.
The gang chanted Colbert’s title as he took the stage to just accept the trophy.
“Typically you solely really know the way a lot you’re keen on one thing once you get a way that you simply is perhaps shedding it,” he mentioned in his speech. “Ten years later, in September of 2025, my mates, I’ve by no means cherished my nation extra desperately. God bless America. Keep robust, be courageous, and if the elevator tries to deliver you down, go loopy and punch a better ground!”
Speaking to Us Weekly and different retailers backstage on the Emmys, the comic mentioned that he deliberate to give attention to The Late Present in the intervening time.
“I really like what we do, and I wish to go to work on Tuesday and for the following 9 months with these individuals and work exhausting however have enjoyable,” Colbert mentioned. “We do the present with one another; we do the present for one another day by 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 Could, however I’m going to savor day by day of it. I wish to land this airplane completely fantastically, and I obtained nothing else on my thoughts.”
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air
The community surprised Kimmel’s followers when it pulled Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! following backlash over his latest feedback concerning the late Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Dwell shall 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 advised Selection in assertion that its “owned and companion tv stations affiliated with the ABC Tv Community will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! 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 capturing and killing Kirk, a conservative commentator, throughout a September 10 talking engagement at Utah Valley College.
“The MAGA Gang [is] desperately attempting to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something aside from considered one of them and doing every part they will to attain political factors from it,” Kimmel mentioned 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 offended finger-pointing, can we only for in the future 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.”
