When Chicago Fire ended its season, we found out that Jake Lockett and Daniel Kyri would not be returning for season 14.
Now, we are learning that a third firefighter will no longer be fighting fires at Firehouse 51. Michael Bradway, who played Severide’s half-brother Jack Damon, is departing the series.
However, it won’t be the last we see of him on our televisions. That is because Soaps.com is reporting that he has been cast in Prime Video’s Every Summer After, which is currently in production.
I wish they did more to keep him because his character was interesting. It felt like they could do more with the troubled firefighter.
Stephen Colbert started his show off tonight with a shocking announcement: CBS has decided to cancel The Late Show and not replace it at the end of next season when it ends.
George Cheeks, Co-CEO Paramount Global and President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS, Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Entertainment, and David Staph, President, CBS Studios said in a statement: “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.
“Our admiration, affection, and respect for the talents of Stephen Colbert and his incredible team made this agonizing decision even more difficult. Stephen has taken CBS late night by storm with cutting-edge comedy, a must-watch monologue and interviews with leaders in entertainment, politics, news and newsmakers across all areas. The show has been #1 in late night for nine straight seasons; Stephen’s comedy resonates daily across digital and social media; and the broadcast is a staple of the nation’s zeitgeist.”
However, people are questioning whether they are truly doing it for financial reasons. Colbert has been very vocal about his contempt for the current president, and the president recently won a multimillion-dollar settlement from CBS over an interview on 60 Minutes with Kamala Harris. Therefore, it seems that politics might have played a role.
I think it is a little of both. Late-night television is slowly dying, even Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers have said that.
Plus, CBS got to test the waters of not having a show on 12:35a when James Corden left The Late Late Show in 2023. They tried to replace it with After Midnight, but after two seasons, Taylor Tomlinson decided to exit the show, and the network pulled the plug. They are replacing that show with a Byron Allen show that has already been produced. So they have gotten to see how much money they could save without them producing a show to fill the hour.
We also know that Paramount, CBS’s parent company, is struggling to survive, which is why they are hoping to sell it to Skydance Media. They just need the FCC’s approval, and a Trumper is running the federal agency.
Is the cancellation something that might’ve been part of the settlement? We don’t know. But if I were Colbert, I would take the gloves off and go after the president and his administration like he never has before. What is CBS going to do, fire him? They already did that.
The Late Show debuted in 1993 with David Letterman as the host. He retired in 2015, and Colbert has been doing the job since.
Before Samuel L. Jackson played a cop in Lakeview Terrace, he had already done it on Movin’ On. Can you believe he played the good guy when he was 27 in that 1976 episode? Little did he know he would build his career on playing the opposite.
For the last four years, we have seen Asher Grodman without pants on Ghosts, but he has always kept his shirt, jacket, and tie on because that is how his character, Trevor Lefkowitz, died.
That is on TV. But in real life, the actor can still take off his clothes. Today, the actor shared a photo of himself without a shirt, and I wish Trevor died with his pants on and his shirt off.
But alas, that cannot happen. That is because he said, “Also, summer’s over – time to put a shirt on and take off the pants.” I guess that is not that bad of a thing because he does have nice gams.
