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| What’s behind the cancelling of Stephen Colbert? – Full Story podcast | What’s behind the cancelling of Stephen Colbert? – Full Story podcast |
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| 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”. | 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. | 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. |
| You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport | You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport |
| You can subscribe for free to Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast Full Story on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. | You can subscribe for free to Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast Full Story on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. |
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| Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount? | Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount? |