"Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled," U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, said in a post on X. "If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.

The news of "The Late Show's" cancellation by CBS doesn't just end a franchise that had, to this point, lasted more than 30 years. It looks like the beginning of the end of an entire category of television.