Stephen Colbert, and his number 1 ranking program The Late Show on CBS, will come to an end next year after a 33-year run.
The news came just days after the TV host referred to a $16m settlement between Trump and CBS parent company Paramount over an interview on their network as a “big fat bribe”.
CBS has described the show’s cancellation as “purely financial”. But, as the Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief David Smith tells Reged Ahmad, others are not so sure.
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