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CBS' Replacement for 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Revealed
Stephen Colbert is sharing a message for his replacement.
Ahead of the May 21 series finale of The Late Show, the host shared how he reacted to learning that the long-running late night show would be replaced by comedian-turned-media-executive Byron Allen’s comedy talk series Comics Unleashed.
“When I found out, I wrote him the next morning,” Stephen told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published May 7. “I said, ‘Hey, congrats. I heard you got the time. Good for you. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could drop Mr. Carson a note?’”
Indeed, the 61-year-old was referencing Byron’s legacy as the youngest comedian to ever perform on The Tonight Show when it was hosted by the late Johnny Carson in 1979.
“God bless him. I know Byron,” he continued. “We got to know each other last year, actually. He’s fascinating.”
As for his thoughts on being replaced by another traditional late night comedy show? Stephen added, “It’s none of my business.”
Though he is supportive of his late night replacement, he said he was initially blindsided in July when he learned that CBS would sunset The Late Show after 33 years because the show is purportedly “not making any money.”
Meanwhile, Stephen—who began hosting The Late Show in 2015—is cautiously curious to see what the future of late night TV holds and how it will affect his fellow talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.
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“I don’t know what it’s going to be, and I don’t know what I can do to help other than what I did the last 11 years,” the Colbert Report alum shared. “But one night I’ll turn on the TV and probably no one will be there.”
But as he enters his final month of shows, Stephen knows for certain what he wants The Late Show’s legacy to be.
“I want to be remembered as a comedy show,” he concluded. “We harvest laughter for a living, and ultimately that’s the thing I want more than anything else. I just want to make the audience laugh.”
Ahead of Stephen’s final show on May 21, read on to learn the fate of other TV shows…
FX
ENDING: The Bear
Goodbye, chef. FX announced the culinary drama's upcoming fifth season will be its last.
Disney
RENEWED: Scrubs
ABC's revival of the medical comedy will return for season two.
Netflix
RENEWED: Stranger Things: Tales From '85
The animated spinoff will investigate new supernatural mysteries in Hawkins during season two.
Amazon MGM Studios
RENEWED & ENDING: From
The Sci-Fi horror series starring Harold Perrineau will return for a fifth and final season on MGM+.
Virginia Sherwood/PEACOCK
CANCELED: Law & Order: Organized Crime
The Law & Order spinoff starring Christopher Meloni was canceled by NBC and Peacock following five seasons.
Darren Goldstein/CBS
RENEWED: Sheriff Country
The sheriffs are back on duty when season two debuts.
Mark Schafer/CBS
RENEWED: CIA
CBS' top CIA agents will be back on the case when they return for another season.
Michael Parmelee/CBS
RENEWED: Elsbeth
Carrie Preston's quirky alter-ego will return with the CBS show's fourth season.
Darko Sikman/CBS
RENEWED: Tracker
Justin Hartley's drama has been renewed for a fourth season by CBS.
Sonja Flemming/CBS
RENEWED: Matlock
The Kathy Bates-led drama will take on more legal cases during season three.
Troy Harvey/2026 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
RENEWED: Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage
The CBS comedy will return for season three.
Disney/Eric McCandless
RENEWED & ENDING: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
The Wizards of Waverly Place sequel will return for season three this summer in a four-part event, with the first episode directed by Selena Gomez.
Netflix
RENEWED: Age of Attraction
Get ready to fall in love with some new age-gap couples because Netflix's new reality dating show has been renewed for a season two.
Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
RENEWED: Fire Country
The CBS drama won't be extinguished. That is, the show will return for a fifth season.
Matt Barnes/CBS
CANCELED: DMV
CBS terminated the workplace comedy costarring Molly Kearney, Gigi Zumbado, Tony Cavaleiro, Alex Tarrant, Harriet Dyer and Tim Meadows after one season.
Disney/Anne Marie Fox
RENEWED: Grey's Anatomy
No emergency here. ABC's longest-running scripted drama will return for seson 23.
Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
RENEWED: NCIS: Sydney
CBS and Paramount+ are returning Down Under to solve more crimes with season four of the procedural.
Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
CANCELED: Watson
The modern take on Sherlock Holmes' story, with Morris Chestnut starring as the detective's fame sidekick Dr. John Watson, was canceled after two seasons.
CBS Media Ventures/Paramount
RENEWED: Flip Side
Hosted by Jaleel White, the game show was renewed for a third season by CBS Media Ventures.
CBS Media Ventures/Paramount
RENEWED: Wheel of Fortune
"America's favorite game show" will be back with more head-scratching word puzzles with seasons 44 and 45.
CBS Media Ventures/Paramount
RENEWED: Hot Bench
The daytime court show will lay down more justice when season 13 debuts.
Michael Yarish/Paramount+
RENEWED: Criminal Minds: Evolution
The long-running FBI drama will solve more heinous crimes and murders when season 20 debuts on Paramount+ in 2027.
Bertrand Calmeau/CBS
RENEWED: Ghosts
Boo! There's actually nothing scary about the comedy landing a sixth season at CBS.
Apple TV
RENEWED & ENDING: For All Mankind
Apple TV announced the space drama will return for a sixth and final season.
HBO Max
ENDING: Hacks
The Emmy-winning comedy starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder returns with its fifth and final season April 9.
Peacock/NBCUniversal
RENEWED: Ashanti and Nelly: We Belong Together
Music to our ears! The Peacock reality series following Ashanti and Nelly's decades-long love story will return for season two.
Sophy Holland/Bravo
ON PAUSE: The Real Housewives of Miami
The Bravo series has halted production after season seven ended in October due to low ratings, according to multiple outlets. Fingers crossed we get our drama-loving Florida ladies back ASAP.
Ryan Muir/TBS/Warner Bros. Discovery
RENEWED: Impractical Jokers
Comedians Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray and Sal Vulcano will return for more laughs and pranks when season 13 of the TBS series premieres.
Prime Video/Amazon MGM Studios
RENEWED: Cross
Prime Video's thriller series will solve more mysteries and murder cases on season three.
Netflix
NOT ENDING, BUT...: With Love, Meghan
The royal's Netflix series With Love, Meghan, which released seasons one and two in 2025, has not been renewed for a third season on the streaming platform, but is instead continuing with one-off episodes.
A spokesperson for the Sussexes told Variety in a story published March 17, “With Love, Meghan will continue as seasonal specials.”
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