CBS Canceling 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' After Next Season

Post by x3n0ph3n3 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:05 AM UTC

abtinf wrote: post #19

> "[it's] purely a financial decision" > "It is not related in any way to the show’s performance" Naively, these seem like contradictory statements.

Post by x3n0ph3n3 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

paleotrope wrote: post #21

paleotrope wrote: post #18

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"One possible factor in the negotiations: an $800 million loan that Park County took in 2023 from private equity firm the Carlyle Group. Parker and Stone could be squeezed for cash to repay roughly $80 million in interest per year, according to one person knowledgeable of the arrangement, who noted that Paramount may be open to paying more than $150 million annually in a new deal but not for 10 years." That's quite t…

Apparently they needed to refinance a 600 million loan from 2021. "The loan would be made through Carlyle’s credit arm and would refinance an existing $600 million debt facility provided by HPS Investment Partners in 2021, according to the report." What the hell have they been spending it on?

Post by paleotrope » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:18 AM UTC

x3n0ph3n3 wrote: post #24

paleotrope wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently they needed to refinance a 600 million loan from 2021. "The loan would be made through Carlyle’s credit arm and would refinance an existing $600 million debt facility provided by HPS Investment Partners in 2021, according to the report." What the hell have they been spending it on?

Maybe some of that went towards Casa Bonita?

Post by Flatcircle » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:35 AM UTC

paleotrope wrote: post #13

Flatcircle wrote: post #5

Shouldn’t be surprising, every late night show is going to end soon. They’re all too expensive

How can they be so expensive? Unless you mean in relation to ad revenue. It's one host, maybe a band, they don't pay the guests cause their there to pitch their show/music/book/film. Maybe all the extra staff they need to write jokes and whatnot. Maybe all the drug advertisements really don't pay all that much anymore.

Post by xnx » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 3:52 AM UTC

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #23

dawnerd wrote: post #12

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It’s currently the number one late night show. It’s not about money. It’s because the president pressured them after Colbert called the network out Tuesday for taking a bribe.

I think Gutfeld is number 1 overall, and has been for a while. But TV ratings overall are down so low, I haven’t had cable since 2003, and at the time people thought I was a radical. Now it seems like the people that have cable are the rare ones, Especially if there is noone over 45 in the house. There is a reason they all format their shows in a way that is easy to break up into youtube videos. If they didn’t, most…