Letterman on late-night TV’s future: ‘I would be surprised if it lasts more than a year’

Things aren’t looking good for much of the late-night TV landscape, according to David Letterman, who says he’d be “surprised” if some programs last “more than a year or so.”

Letterman, who launched “The Late Show” in 1993 and served as its host until 2015, opened up about its forthcoming finale in an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday.

In a surprise move last year, CBS announced that it would be ending the Stephen Colbert-hosted show in May, calling it at the time “purely a financial decision.”

The move to pull the plug on Colbert, a frequent critic of President Trump, came amid a multibillion-dollar effort by Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, to merge with entertainment giant Skydance. The merger was ultimately approved by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission.

Asked if he believed that CBS canceled “The Late Show” due to financial reasons, Letterman replied that Colbert “was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, ‘Oh no,........

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