“We’re not doing it because of political pressure, we’re just having financial problems so we need to cancel some shows”

Yeah because when your business is struggling financially, it totally makes sense to cut out parts of the business that are doing really well.

The Late Show is by far the most watched of the late night shows. It has to bring in a ton of advertising revenue and isn’t a huge budget production.

Meanwhile you paid $16 million to Trump for literally no reason and are in the middle of a merger with a company whose owners have openly said that their main goal it to “remove the liberal taint” from Paramount.

I guarantee that the Daily Show and Star Trek are also going to be on the chopping block soon, too

That episode of The Rehearsal looking less and less absurd

dukevendetta: I’m unfamiliar, can you elaborate?

Heres a screenshot lol.

Basically Nathan Fielder made a big production out of Paramount removing an episode of Nathan For You that was about antisemitism. So in The Rehearsal he rehearsed confronting paramount plus about it and made them all literal nazis.

Highly recommend The Rehearsal, its insane.

Ah

colbert has 10 months left and now the muzzle is off

I cannot wait to see what he has in store.

if Conan's last few episodes of the tonight show are anything to go by, this is gonna be fun.

Right?

But still, it is very concerning

thing is canceling his show will probably be one of those things where they try to silence people
and they only get loider

someone's going to pick him up almost immediately because money talks

I hope so

But overall this trend of wealthy conservatives using their money to silence dissent is... not great

Musk turned Twitter in a nazi hellscape

Bezos bought and slowly has shifted Washington Post to the right

Now Paramount/CBS/Comedy Central are being purchased by billionaire Trump allies who have very openly said it is their plan to remove anything left-leaning from the air

the writer's guild is planning legal action against Paramount over there, so there's that at least

Even the New York Times is calling this out as bullshit lmao

wheeeeee America's dictatorship era