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Stephen Colbert whitethorn person revealed what his adjacent move is now the Late Show is complete connected CBS, and CBS looks to still moving pinch their ex-late nighttime main man – astatine slightest erstwhile it comes to his vMay 22 Michigan nationalist entree special.
In nan accustomed online unreserved to judgement we’ve each go acold excessively utilized to, a integer firestorm has dispersed this play that nan David Ellison owned CBS Studios is sending retired takedown notices to effort to crush group watching nan very low-tech Only successful Monroe section that Colbert hosted in nan Great Lakes State nan time aft his very past (and very very well-watched) Last Show aired.
They are not.
Yes, CBS were sending retired takedown notices until earlier today. No, CBS is not trying to suppress Only successful Monroe. They really paid for it.
Like immoderate business, CBS are, aliases were, trying to protect their assets from being ripped and ripped disconnected — until they sewage fed up pinch nan full thing.
“Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe successful nan Only successful Monroe section was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was posted connected Stephen Colbert’s YouTube transmission successful collaboration pinch Monroe Community Media and The Late Show’s”YouTube channels,” a CBS spokesperson said successful a connection precocious Sunday aft accusations of censorship and mean-spiritedness collapsed retired crossed nan Internet. “As is our regular practice, we nonstop copyright notices to unauthorized websites that station copyrighted content from CBS and our network/studio talent specified arsenic Stephen Colbert. However, for this episode, person decided to waive further enforcement of this modular manufacture believe until further review.”
Which is essentially, a still cheque penning CBS saying F.U. to nan haters aft months of taking swipes and whacks (many from Colbert himself) for nan pinkish slipping of Colbert and nan Late Show franchise past year. Now, was Colbert genuinely canned successful July 2025 because The Late Show cost excessively overmuch to support going successful nan diminution precocious nighttime genre? Was he fixed astir a twelvemonth to time off aft mocking CBS and Donald Trump for nan former’s $16 cardinal payout to nan second to settee a dubious 60 Minutes lawsuit?
I mean …you decide.
However, pinch each nan speculation of what Colbert will do adjacent besides penning a new Lord of nan Rings movie book and immoderate that “for this episode” from CBS implies, it seems beautiful evident it’s going to hap online 1 measurement aliases another.
Put it this way, nan only video connected Colbert’s April 21 launched individual YouTube transmission is nan Only successful Monroe video. Pretty safe to stake it won’t beryllium nan only 1 arsenic Colbert looks group to travel successful nan steps of different comics and contented creators and usage nan immense viewership of YouTube arsenic astatine slightest a partial home.
Fact is YouTube is bigger than web TV and nan streamers. Another truth is, pinch moves for illustration its woody to beryllium nan location of nan Oscars starting successful 2029, nan Google-owned level is intent connected bulking up ever further and adding immoderate of nan mini screen’s champion and brightest to its roster.
On Colbert’s ain transmission and pinch Ellison’s CBS footing astatine slightest a important information of nan bill, Only successful Monroe is simply a adjacent cleanable flex of timing and execution for some a reset and continuity.
The one-hour Jack White, Eminem, Steve Buscemi and Jeff Daniels starring special, which harks backmost to Colbert’s Michigan nationalist entree quality successful nan first week of his Late Show stint successful September 2015, has accumulated 409,000 views complete nan past 2 day. While Colbert’s YT Channel has 80,500 subscribers arsenic of today, it pales adjacent to immoderate of nan views and subscribers immoderate of nan sites that were posting their ain Only successful Monroe video nan past respective days A.K.A. nan sites CBS wanted YT to region their worldly from.
Colbert precocious past week connected nan very section Only successful Monroe explained what he was doing location and took a wound outta Paramount (which look soon to get Warner Bros Discovery for $111 cardinal successful a Trump management accelerated tracked process). “Since I was past present successful Monroe, Michigan, I spent 11 years arsenic nan superior big of The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert on CBS, which came to an extremity past night,” nan big declared connected nan bare bones set. “It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being connected TV, truthful I americium grateful to beryllium capable to beryllium present connected Monroe Community Media earlier they besides get acquired by Paramount.”
He near retired that he was grateful to Paramount and CBS for paying for nan full closing and prologue of sorts, but that’s why they telephone it show business isn’t it?
