CBS parent Paramount insists that this week's decision to cancel Steven Colbert's “Late Show” was strictly financial, and had nothing to do with politics.

At what point do we stop calling the 'Late Show' cancelation "just a business decision" and start calling it slow, strategic silencing of critics?

The late-night host had scoffed at a decision by CBS’s parent company to pay the U.S. president $16 million over a disputed interview.

Late-night talk shows have become an indelible part of American political discourse, underscoring the role their writers play in framing some aspects of the news. IE 11 is not supported.

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No late-night-TV comedian attacks the job with more righteous intensity than Samantha Bee. Once a week on her TBS show Full Frontal, she stands before a wall of video monitors, feet planted ...

Only Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Love Is Blind had likeability scores below 50%. Strong characters and relationships drove the likeability of shows that appeal to both liberals and conservatives. Friends, Fallout, NCIS, and Suits held equal appeal to viewers on both sides of the ideological spectrum.