Skavau@piefed.socialM to Television@piefed.socialEnglish · 20 days agoJimmy Kimmel ‘Felt Defeated’ by Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation and Says Late-Night TV Is Not ‘Dying of Natural Causes’: ‘We’re Being Poisoned’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down12
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkJimmy Kimmel ‘Felt Defeated’ by Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation and Says Late-Night TV Is Not ‘Dying of Natural Causes’: ‘We’re Being Poisoned’variety.comSkavau@piefed.socialM to Television@piefed.socialEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareHobbitFoot linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoI don’t think CBS letting Colbert stay on for $15 million to produce the show would have been seen as anything other than firing Colbert.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoThey didn’t give him the same business opportunity as Allen.
minus-squareHobbitFoot linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoWhy are you so fixated on CBS not giving Colbert a deal he wouldn’t have accepted?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoBecause the fact that they didn’t offer him a chance to own The Late Show means all of CBS’s press releases are a lie. Trump wanted Colbert gone and CBS made it happen.
I don’t think CBS letting Colbert stay on for $15 million to produce the show would have been seen as anything other than firing Colbert.
They didn’t give him the same business opportunity as Allen.
Why are you so fixated on CBS not giving Colbert a deal he wouldn’t have accepted?
Because the fact that they didn’t offer him a chance to own The Late Show means all of CBS’s press releases are a lie. Trump wanted Colbert gone and CBS made it happen.