Stewart said CBS was hoping to get into President Donald Trump's good books by cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Show" host Jon Stewart went to bat for his friend Stephen Colbert after CBS announced it was canceling "The Late Show," a decision he viewed as kowtowing to President Trump.

The senators pressed Ellison, who was photographed in April with Trump, to reveal whether he has discussed the merger with him and whether he has agreed to “make changes to Skydance’s content or Paramount’s or CBS’s content at the request of the Trump administration.”

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It started with Jaycee Horn and Derek Stingley Jr., as the Carolina Panthers gave Horn a four-year, $100 million contract extension and Stingley signed a three-year, $90 million extension with the Houston Texans. More recently, Sauce Gardner and the New York Jets agreed to a four-year, $120.4 million deal.

The premiere of the landmark variety series and its trailblazing star is covered in the new Netflix documentary 'Sunday Best'

CBS seemingly added more entries than usual to the annual list of canceled and ending TV shows, which means the upcoming TV schedule will look quite different once the fall months arrive. More recently network canceled its two "FBI" spinoffs,

Bravo’s Andy Cohen is confounded by CBS’s decision to end The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The network announced last Thursday that it would be canceling Stephen Colbert’s late night show after its current season finishes airing in May 2026 — citing it as a “purely a financial decision.