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Comedy Central has finally unveiled its late-night plans with Charlamagne Tha God. Stephen Colbert, who previously hosted The Colbert Report on the network, is exec producing Tha God's Honest Truth with Lenard 'Charlamagne' McKelvey. The weekly series will launch on Friday September 17 at 10pm. The network had original…

Stephen Colbert and Christine Baranski couldn’t wait for Broadway’s return, so they created a little Sondheim spark of their own Wednesday night by duetting on “Side by Side by Side,” a number from the composer’s Company. “You can’t sing over Zoom,” The Late Show host said in reaction to his in-person interview with…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. If you need a clue that the movie awards season is gearing up to return to normal, look no further than Thursday night’s gathering of the Telluride Film Festival faithful on the London Hotel rooftop overlooking the Sunset Strip. The fest always…

UPDATED with the latest: “I'm incredibly disappointed with myself,” wrote Rita Moreno on Twitter Wednesday. “While making a statement in defense of Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Colbert Show last night, I was clearly dismissive of black (sic) lives that matter in our Latin community. It is so easy to forget how…

While the leaders of the world’s seven largest so-called “advanced economies” convened in the U.K. to discuss substantive issues like the pandemic, health care, climate change and corporate taxes, social media trolls were more interested in the odd “family photograph” the leaders took on a Cornish beach Friday…

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will return to New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater with full-capacity, vaccinated audiences on June 14. CBS made the announcement this morning. Colbert had been hosting remotely for more than a year due to Covid-19 safety concerns even as late-night rivals Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon…

Stephen Colbert appeared on behalf of his CBS late-night show during Deadline’s Contenders Television all-day awards-season event and admitted he was eager to get back to having an audience for his hit series, which has been essentially shooting from a storage closet at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York. "It's…

Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself is hard to describe but much harder to shake. Part magic act, part memoir, part group meditation experience, the Hulu release is an adaptation of DelGaudio's Off-Broadway show, which opened in 2016 and ran until 2018. Its creator and performer has worked as an illusionist and depicts…

Padma Lakshmi, the Queer Eye hosts, Stephen Colbert and Demi Lovato are just of the few of the top tiers names joining Deadline's Contenders Television Documentary + Unscripted event on May 1. The day-long livestreamed celebration starts at 8 a.m. PT on Saturday, as the Oscars are in the rearview mirror and awards…

One night after the Oscars, late night hosts Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel offered their thoughts on 2021’s unconventional ceremony, offering mixed perspectives. By far the most kind to the award show was Noah, who said that the Oscars “pulled off a lot of cool moments,” despite the shake-up of a…

Earlier today, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd—just as Stephen Colbert was gearing up to tape The Late Show. Subsequently, the late-night host shifted gears to address the verdict. “After 10 hours of deliberation, a jury in Minneapolis decided that it's…

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will go live on Wednesday, April 28, after President Joe Biden delivers his first primetime address to a joint session of Congress. The episode will air on the CBS Television Network between 11:35 PM and 12:37 AM ET, with a bit of a delay for the West Coast. It will mark the 43rd…