In an attempt to get some positive press after making good on pulling Stephen Colbert’s popular “The Late Show” off the air and replacing it with Byron Allen’s “In an attempt to get some positive press after making good on pulling Stephen Colbert’s popular “The Late Show” off the air and replacing it with Byron Allen’s “
CBS attempts to spin the Colbert replacement show's flop as a sound financial move
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In an attempt to get some positive press after making good on pulling Stephen Colbert’s popular “The Late Show” off the air and replacing it with Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed,” CBS issued a press statement claiming it was a sound business decision despite a massive drop in viewership.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, CBS claimed on Thursday the unpopular move represented sound business strategy, stating: "We're proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost-prohibitive to continue. With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing."
The network reiterated its assertion that canceling Colbert's show had been "purely a financial decision," which skeptical late-night competitor Jimmy Kimmel had already rejected, stating: "There's just not a snowball's chance in hell that that's anywhere near accurate," Kimmel said. "The idea that Stephen Colbert's show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical."
According to an earlier report from The Beast, "Comics Unleashed" drew only 995,000 viewers in its debut episode, while late-night talk shows hosted by Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon topped more than 1.5 million viewers on the same night — and notably, Kimmel's was a rerun, not a fresh broadcast.
Even more embarrassingly for CBS, Colbert's YouTube presence continues to outperform Allen's new show, the report added. A one-night appearance by Colbert on the public access TV show "Only in Monroe" drew 928,000 views on his YouTube channel alone — a figure that doesn't include viewers on other platforms.
A Saturday afternoon MS NOW interview with blunt-talking Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) ended with host Alex Witt quickly issuing a response to the lawmaker calling the president a rapist.
Brought on to talk about former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s appearance before members of the House Oversight Committee on Friday, where the fired former Trump official was described as “combative” and unwilling to talk about the president, the New Mexico Democrat also weighed in on reports that Trump’s DOJ is looking at investigating Trump sexual abuse victim E. Jean Carroll.
“What are your thoughts on this?” Witt prompted her guest.
“I mean, come on, Donald Trump, we all know that you are an adjudicated rapist, and now you're going after survivors that have held you accountable” Stansbury responded.
“All of this is an attempt to try to silence people and to try to intimidate them by using the United States Justice Department as a weapon against the American people,” she continued before recalling, “And that is exactly what Richard Nixon went down for. So we can see what's happening here.”
“Yeah,” the MS NOW host replied before quickly adding, “I just want to be careful because President Trump was not accused of rape, per se — he was accused of sexual abuse; so going by the proper terminology there.”
According to a report from the Washington Post, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, wrote, “The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
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Republican Ken Paxton, Texas’ controversial attorney general-turned Senate candidate, is due in court for his divorce trial next month, but ahead of the public proceedings, a Texas political action committee (PAC) issued a warning to attendees regarding a past incident involving Paxton at the very same courthouse.
In 2013, Paxton admitted to taking a $1,000 luxury fountain pen mistakenly left at a security checkpoint in an incident that was captured on camera. The Collin County Sheriff’s Office reviewed video of the incident and contacted Paxton, who “quickly returned it,” and his spokesperson dismissed it as a “simple mixup,” a local NBC News affiliate reported.
The Lone Star Rising PAC, however, out of an apparent abundance of caution, warned those considering attending Paxton’s divorce proceedings to keep careful watch of their valuables.
“If you attend, please hold onto your valuables!” the social media account for the PAC wrote in a post on X. “Paxton will be back at the scene of the $1,000 pen stealing incident.”
Former Texas Democratic state Rep. Wendy Davis, also a lawyer and former congressional candidate, weighed in as well.
“Quick reminder that Ken Paxton literally STOLE a valuable pen someone accidentally left in a bin when going through security at a Dallas courthouse a few years ago,” Davis wrote in a social media post on X to her nearly 160,000 followers. “I mean, what more do you need to know? Now he has to go back to the same courthouse for his OPEN TO THE PUBLIC divorce trial.”
Paxton’s wife filed for divorce last year on what she described as “biblical grounds,” having accused her husband of infidelity. Paxton was also accused of having an affair back in 2023 during his impeachment trial, during which he faced accusations of bribery, abuse of public trust and unfitness for office. Paxton was ultimately acquitted on all articles of impeachment filed against him.
Paxton won the GOP primary election this week against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) after scoring an endorsement from President Donald Trump, and has remained a controversial figure in politics, even among Republicans.
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Donald Trump may or may not have done NY Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart any favors with a post on Truth Social on Saturday morning.
The NFL rookie who appeared in 14 games in his first year in the league on a team that finished 4-13 -- leaving them in last place in the NFC East but with one more win than the hapless NY Jets -- has drawn fire for introducing Trump at an event in New York last week.
Dart’s participation caught some team officials — and his teammates — by surprise, with ESPN reporting, “ … the original plan for last week did not involve Dart introducing the president. But the plan changed along the way. Coach John Harbaugh said he only knew that Dart was supposed to meet the president.”
Dart's presidential introduction set off a firestorm of criticism, which led Trump to jump into the fray on Saturday.
Posting a picture of the quarterback with his girlfriend, Marissa Ayers on Truth Social, the president gushed, “Thank you Jaxson! It was great being with you. I know you’re taking some heat from the Radical Left Lunatics who are jealous of you, me, and everyone who surrounds us but, I also know that your Jersey also went to Number One, and you’re making Millions of Dollars so, YOU ARE A WINNER — THEY ARE ALL LOSERS. I’ll see you in the White House!”
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