CBS Announces New Show That Will Replace Stephen Colbert’s “The Tonight Show”

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CBS has announced which new show will replace “The Late Show” hosted by Stephen Colbert.

The Late Night Show host, Stephen Colbert, who has been vocal about his disdain towards President Trump, is set to leave his show in May after his contract was not renewed.

The new show that will replace “The Late Night Show” will be “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.”

CNN reported more details on the new show that is set to replace Colbert’s “The Tonight Show”:

CBS has filled its soon-to-be-vacant 11:35 p.m. time slot.

The network said Monday that beginning May 22, the day after the finale of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the hour will be filled by “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen.”

Because “Comics Unleashed” is a half-hour program, CBS will air two back-to-back episodes each night. The 12:35 a.m. slot will then be filled by “Funny You Should Ask,” a syndicated game show created by Allen and hosted by Jon Kelley.

“Comics Unleashed” has been airing at 12:35 a.m. since last September, when it moved into the slot after CBS canceled game show “After Midnight.”

“I truly appreciate CBS’ confidence in me by picking up our two-hour comedy block of ‘COMICS UNLEASHED’ and ‘FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK,’ because the world can never have enough laughter,” Allen, a comedian and founder and chief executive of Allen Media Group, said in a statement.

CBS has a time-buy agreement with Allen Media Group for the 2026-27 season, meaning Allen pays to air his programs on the CBS network.

The programming move comes less than a year after CBS announced it would end Colbert’s “Late Show,” which airs its final episode on Thursday, May 21.

Hopefully, the new show isn’t another propaganda program:

So what will Colbert do now?

Fox News reported Colbert will be writing a new Lord of the Romngs movie:

Late-night host Stephen Colbert revealed in a video announcement Tuesday that he will co-write the next “Lord of the Rings” movie after his program ends in May.

“You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me, but the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in the ‘Fellowship’ that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day,” Colbert said in a video with Peter Jackson, the director of the hit “Lord of the Rings” movies.

Colbert said the next film would be based on “Fog on the Barrow-downs,” chapter eight of “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in the fantasy trilogy from J.R.R. Tolkien.

Colbert, Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee will write the script for the film, which is titled “The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past,” according to Deadline.

Colbert’s “The Late Show” is set to end on May 21.



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