Jimmy Kimmel Blasts Berichte über Stephen Colberts ‚Late Show‘, die 40 Millionen Dollar für CBS verliert: „Nicht die Chance eines Schneeballs in der Hölle, das genau ist“
https://variety.com/2025/tv/awards/jimmy-kimmel-defends-colbert-late-night-tv-not-dying-1236479160/
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> There have been reports that Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year. What’s your take on that?
> I just want to say that the idea that Stephen Colbert’s show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows — I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. They seem to only be focused on advertising revenue and have completely forgotten about affiliate fees, which number in the hundreds of millions — probably in total billions — and you must allocate a certain percentage of those fees to late-night shows. It really is surprising how little the media seems to know about how the media works. There’s just not a snowball’s chance in hell that that’s anywhere near accurate. Even that — that’s all you need to know. Suddenly he’s losing $40 million a year? I will tell you, the first 10 years I did the show, they claimed we weren’t making any money — and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true? All I know is they keep paying us — and that’s kind of all you need to know.
Hollywood is notorious for creative accounting to make successful projects appear less profitable than they are for tax and revenue sharing reasons. It was used on Forrest Gump to basically avoid paying the author of the book his share of the box office profits. NBC also did this with Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show as a way to retroactively justify their decision to go back to Jay Leno.
And then I started blasting..
I mean it could be losing money. But that could also be due to mismanagement by the company. Like it is one of if not the most viewed late night show on YouTube. His monologue alone get over a million views regularly in the first 24 hours.
This is on paramount, not the creative.
What if it’s a very determined snowball?
If it is losing $$ then every CBS late night executive should be fired but won’t!