As it does each year at this time, CBS will air its Masters highlights show Thursday night, pushing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to a later start and out of original programming.
The 15-minute highlights special is scheduled from 11:35–11:50 p.m. ET, with a Late Show repeat beginning at 11:50. The encore broadcast is the show’s March 31 episode featuring guests Nathan Lane and Arsenio Hall.
Although the Masters has regularly impacted The Late Show‘s schedule in recent years, this year’s shift comes during the final stretch of the program’s run. With just six weeks to go until its May 21 series finale, the number of remaining original episodes is limited.
The delay also lands in an already quiet week for late night, with The Daily Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night with Seth Meyers all on spring break.
That leaves Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the only traditional late-night show airing a new episode Thursday night. (ABC’s Nightline and Fox News’ Gutfeld! will also be new.)
The Late Show returns with new episodes Monday, April 13. From there, the show is scheduled to take one more break (the week of April 27) but is otherwise expected to air fresh episodes through its finale.
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Once Stephen Colbert is taken off the air I will never watch anything on CBS. I believe he has been taken off the air unfairly. He has a good audience and good numbers. The fact that they didn’t push last nights show to a later time shows how stupid they think their audience nine
Same, sir.
So you think his show is making money for CBS? Where do you get that?
I believe Colbert has acknowledged that his numbers just aren’t there.
He has the highest rated Kate night talk show.