Has he passed his use-by date?

I didn't know how rich Allen was until he tried to buy a sports team. I guess these dumb interview things he did in the past were done through his production company & syndication. I've never minded the guy (what little I know about him anyway).

But THIS is the replacement? & Weiss wants to revamp 60 Minutes into a sh*tshow? That network is going to be going in the tank at record speed.

My husband says "Comics Unleashed" isn't that funny.

And I've read the listings and I never know anyone who's on.

And the sitting around trying to be funny isn't a great setup. "After Midnight" was funnier. It used to be on in that slot but the host got tired of it.

the liberal redneck. I thought that might have been interesting. I still didn't watch it.

I mostly stick with the news shows or the late night comedy guys.

You would think that with a year to prepare, CBS would have come up with a program of their own.

Assuming that the point of a network is to directly make money. They are happy to lose money in the pursuit of propaganda. Theres a lot more to be made via less savory avenues than there ever was in producing news or even entertainment.

but it's more important to quash a liberal voice than win ratings.

CBS sucks.

I will have no more need for that puke inducing network.

if i need to watch soething on it or paramount i know how to find it for free

Please share how you manage to watch Paramount+ programming for free. I would be interested in dropping that subscription if I could do that.

Stephen Colbert's last show is set to air May 21st.

That is one of the better shows on TV.

Maybe it can move to NBC or somewhere else.

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And when Jane goes, so do I. It's the last CBS show I watch.

According to a couple of the women in my life, it's nowhere near as good as once was (they watch it every week).

Their thoughts:

-They're okay with Jane, but they wish Lee Cowan was the host of the show. They love when he fills in for Jane. I've heard, "He's got 'Sunday Morning voice' " more than once.

-The correspondents they like most (in no particular order) are: Lee Cowan, Nancy Giles, Faith Salie, David Pogue, Martha Teichner, & Conor Knighton

-They don't like Ted Koppel. They feel like he's had his time. Let somebody else have the job.

-There's way too much of you-know-who. They fast forward/skip any sight or sound of that jackass.

-They love the Moment Of Nature when it's good. Whomever decides what to shoot (producer?) is fixated on water though. Almost every Sunday the show ends with some body of water. They prefer trees, wildlife, & snow. The one about the guy who lives in snowy Yellowstone with his cats and "comes down from the mountain" a few times a year was an all-time favorite.

You wanna get granular? Lee Cowan's voice is really bad and weak. The worst part of it is he constantly trails off on the last syllable of words at the end of his sentences. His vocal volume drops so low on that very last syllable I often have to rewind on the DVR to hear what he said (sometimes more than once, with closed-captioning on). He does it so often, it's maddening. And it's not my advanced age and poor hearing. Really!

David Pogue's segments are some of my favorites. Martha Teichner, Seth Doane, and Mo Rocca usually turn in good segments. They always give Steve Hartman the tear-jerker segments, and they rarely fail to produce a lump in my throat. I could do without so many celeb segments.

Agree about Koppel. Bob Costa does not look comfortable anywhere. Faith Salie is getting pretty scary-looking, which distracts from the segment. Also, she gushes too much over celebrities.

We've watched these shows off and on over the decades. It's hard for me to say if the show is worse than it used to be. It still produces lots of good stuff. Some of the best TV.



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Neither is he. He sits there with a clipboard throwing setups to the 2 or 4 largely unknown “comics” so they can regurgitate their “material.”

The reason I know is that I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough a few times.

Even if she goes to bed before me she doesn't want to hear it from the other room, the jokes are so bad they keep her awake.

So inorganically unfunny. Super cringy. That’s not going to last long.

Ding Ding Ding!

I knew I was getting close but then lost track.

It's supposedly a talk show with comedians, but it's obviously all scripted. The guests are all has-been comedians that have fallen into obscurity so they can be booked for cheap. The questions are just setups for prewritten jokes. And the jokes aren't even funny. So awkward and cringe.

That hippie type guy is funny. I can't remember his name....Jamie Kennedy. I like the host Jon Kelley too.

It's not that funny. I turn the TV off now after Colbert.

if it wasn't so funny............

...no criticizing the PTB, just keep it safe! Hopefully Colbert will go on to even greater things.

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There is a short video floating around of he and Peter Jackson, announcing that Colbert and his son are collaborating on a script for a spin off of Lord of the Rings. It will be on the chapters of the first book about Tom Bombadil. Apparently Colbert's son is a script or screen writer so he has background in that field. In the video Stephen was clearly excited about this project. Anyone that has followed him knows his extensive interest in the details on all things Tolkien, so hopefully the film will come to be and will be good. There was a bit of irony thrown in the video, Stephen says that he thought he wouldn't be able to do the project because of the Late Show, but now he has a lot of free time on his hands, lol.

...is probably the one thing I don't really like about Colbert. His knowledge of the Lord of the Rings is encyclopedic and bothersome at the same time. I read the trilogy but never placed it very high on the list of greatest books. Oh well, to each their own.

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Killing the current late night leader for THAT?!?!

Oy vey.

Byron Allen's shows are hard to watch, cringe worthy.

Kimmel stock is going to skyrocket. I'd be happy to see Colbert replace Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.

The hallmark of a vanity or propaganda program. Limbaugh's TV show was the same. Too offensive to attract any sponsor so Limbaugh bought the time outright using the money that the Mercers and their ilk gave him to keep him afloat financially.

That no matter how big the audience is, principal matters more.

CBS is dead to me.

Just wondering

Maybe Trump can sue CBS to get it done, or threaten their broadcast license, or sent some ICE agents in to take over their production facilities.

Allen also ruined the Weather Channel by replacing weather with his own crappy 'reality' shows.

🥱😴💤🛌

Hope Kimmel, Fallon and Meyers beat them in the ratings.

Will not be watching but wonder if the comics will be censored so as not to make any jokes about you know who.

With special "musical" guest Kid Rock.

If Thighmaster 5.0 paid more, they'd probably air that.

It's symptomatic of our fall. Once we elected a toxic buffoon (and did it again), our demise was inevitable. California is busy eating democrats for lunch ahead of the primary. There appears to be no common sense strategy anywhere.

Reruns of the Benny Hill show.

That might actually attract viewers for CBS....

CBS isn't paying him to run his shows.

They are the joke!

. . . that is often about eight years old.

Pathetic. And that is the whole point.

away from Colbert's CBS time slot over to Kimmel. Fallon could also benefit.

Trmp should lose a lot of clout after that.

"Yessir, Mr. President, Sir !" could well be replaced by "senile old has-been says what ?".

in the hands of right wing degenerates, how long before they file for Chapter 11 ?