Overview
- This week the Television Critics Association named The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch, marking the program’s first win in that category after multiple prior nominations.
- Stephen Colbert also received the TCA Career Achievement Award, a late‑night honor previously given to figures such as Johnny Carson and David Letterman.
- Colbert accepted both awards with prerecorded videos released by the TCA in which he praised his staff, joked from playful settings including a bathtub, and debuted a new beard.
- The Late Show ended its 11‑season run with a May finale, and CBS had cited roughly $40 million in annual losses when it announced the program’s cancellation earlier this year.
- The dual TCA honors reinforce industry recognition of Colbert’s body of work, arrive as the show faces final‑round Emmy voting, and leave the earlier cancellation rationale as a continuing topic of public discussion.