Is The Late Show With Stephen Colbert new tonight? (May 2, 2023)

We have some less-than-stellar news to report for fans of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

After a new episode on Monday, May 1, 2023, there won’t be a new episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert tonight (Tuesday, May 2). And, there might not be a new episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS for some time.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to air repeat episodes during the writers’ strike

If you’ve been following the news, you know that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert isn’t new tonight because the Writers Guild of America (WGA) decided to strike because the networks and studios and the writers’ union could not come to terms on a new agreement over compensation and fair wages.

Until an agreement is reached, the writers will remain on strike, and there won’t be new episodes of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. That’s the basics of it, anyway, but there are a few other things to mention.

When will The Late Show With Stephen Colbert return with new episodes?

Well, if you knew that information, you could probably line yourself up for a nice payday because no one knows what’s next for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, late-night TV, or the rest of the TV and film industry.

According to a report from CNN, The Late Show will be airing reruns until “further notice.”

There are a few things that could happen. The Late Show could return without writers, which would probably be less than interesting TV. The writers make everything better, and without them, TV is a lesser product. During the last writers’ strike, late-night hosts were trotted out on stage to tell jokes and do dumb things until the strike ended.

In a perfect world, this issue would be sorted quickly and The Late Show would return without missing much time and with a full writing staff. Unfortunately, it’s just too early to tell what’s going to happen.

Hopefully, the studios and networks will make a deal with the writers and bring TV and movies back soon.