CBS Gets ROCKED As Stephen Colbert Replacement Plunges In Ratings Crash
May 30, 2026
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as posted by the channelCBS owners get hit with the bad news after their plan to cancel Stephen Colbert on 'The Late Show' to gain favor with Donald Trump backfires massively as the network's replacement show 'Comics Unleashed' craters in ratings comparison. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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'Comics Unleashed' Craters CBS Ratings After Stephen Colbert Exit
"Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show finale put CBS atop the late-night ratings charts. His replacement’s premiere plummeted them to the bottom.
When Colbert, 62, left CBS on Thursday, so too did all of his viewers. The first episode of Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed to premiere at Colbert’s previous 11:35 pm time slot drew just 995,000 viewers, according to initial Nielsen data reported by LateNighter.
By comparison, Colbert’s series finale attracted more than 6.7 million viewers via the same metric, meaning CBS saw an 85 percent downturn in viewership just one day after Colbert’s show went dark for good."
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