The news of "The Late Show's" cancellation by CBS doesn't just end a franchise that had, to this point, lasted more than 30 years. It looks like the beginning of the end of an entire category of television.

CBS is axing “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, the host told an audience at a taping Thursday.

"If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better," Schiff wrote on X.