2025 is the year Late Night TV fell apart: a complete timeline
The Late-Night TV line-up is undergoing a drastic shakeup this year.
Of the cancellation of The late show with Stephen Colbert To pull abruptly Jimmy Kimmel From the sky, it has been a time of unrest for comedy programs for weekday evening.
Here are the last shifts in the Late-Night Landscape of 2025:
Stephen Colbert canceled
On July 17 the friendly host viewers surprised when he announced that his CBS show will end in May 2026.
“Next year our last season will be, the network will end The late show In May, “said Colbert, 61, in the air.
When the studio audience started to Boo, he noticed: “I share your feelings.”
“It’s not just the end of our show, but it’s the end of The late show On CBS. I’m not being replaced, “he said.” This is all going away. I want to say that the people of CBS have been great partners. … and I am grateful to the audience, you who have joined us every night, here, there, there and all over the world. “
After the news, CBS issued a statement stating that the decision was ‘financial’ and not -related ‘in any way the performance, content or other things of the show on Paramount.’
Kimmel supported Colbert publicly and wrote through his Instagram story: “F *** You and all your Sheldons CBS.”
And in the summer, Andy Cohen – Who Host View what happens live On Bravo – weighed on the cancellation and said, “I think it’s a sad day for late television in the evening. Brilliant show.”
The late show Wins an Emmy
Colbert and his team triumphed during the Emmy Awards from 2025 on Sunday 14 September, finally the score of the Award for Outstanding Talk series For the first time after several nominations in the past decade.
The crowd sang the name of Colbert when he entered the stage to accept the trophy.
“Sometimes you only really know how much you love something if you get a feeling that you might lose it,” he said in his speech. “Ten years later, in September 2025, my friends, I never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to get you down, get crazy and a higher floor!”
Talk with US Weekly And other outlets Backstage at the Emmys, the comedian said he intended to concentrate up The late show provisional.
“I love what we do, and I want to work with these people on Tuesday and for the next nine months and work hard, but have fun,” said Colbert. “We do the show together; we do the show every day for each other. And then I have the privilege and the responsibility that day to share with the audience what we did. And I think it’s great, and I know it will come to the end in May, but I will enjoy it every day.
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel out of the sky
The network surprised Kimmel’s fans when it drawn Jimmy Kimmel Live! after a recoil about his recent comments about the late Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be performed indefinitely,” confirmed an ABC spokesperson Us on Wednesday 17 September.
ABC’s movement came after Nexstar Media, which owns several TV stations, reportedly threatened to eliminate Kimmel from his late-night schedule. The company told Variety Declaration that his’ ownership and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC television network will occur Jimmy Kimmel Live! For the near future, starting with tonight’s show. “
Kimmel, 57, achieved the headlines for comments he made during a Monday 15 September monologue where he spoke about it Tyler RobinsonHe is accused of shooting and killing Kirk, a conservative commentator, during a striking engagement of 10 September at Utah Valley University.
‘The Maga gang [is] Desperately trying to characterize this boy that Charlie Kirk has killed as something other than one of them and everything they can do to score political points, “said Kimmel during his talk show.” Mourning in between finger. “
Before his monologue, Kimmel joined Instagram And convicted weapon violence in the aftermath of the death of Kirk.
“Instead of pointing out angry finger, can we just agree that it is terrible and monstrous to shoot another person?” He wrote. “On behalf of my family we send love to the Kirks and to all children, parents and innocent people who are victims of meaningless gun violence.”
