Shari Redstone Says Late Night TV Is 'Financially Not Viable' Amid Colbert-Kimmel Upheaval | Video

Shari Redstone does not see a bright future for late night. Speaking Thursday at Axios' Media Trends Live event, the former Paramount Global chair said that shows like CBS' "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" were "financially not viable" and "it had been that way for a long time." "I can tell you that we had been looking at late night," she said of CBS and its parent company's decision to stop airing "The Late Show" in May 2026. "It was financially not viable, it had been that way for a long time. We had made a decision months . . .