While Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs new episodes, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will have a week of reruns. At least there is something on, as the two NBC late night shows won’t even get reruns this week due to the Winter Olympic coverage.
The Late Show has a packed schedule of reruns, with plenty of interviews to rewatch. This includes a rerun of Bad Bunny taking “The Colbert Questionert,” which is perfect timing after the iconic Halftime Show at Super Bowl LX. Remember that all previous episodes are on Paramount+, so you can watch whichever rerun you want.
All the rebroadcasts planned on The Late Show this week
The reruns are mostly from January episodes of the series, but there is one February episode, which makes sense with the timing of Last Week Tonight’s season 13 premiere.
Monday, Feb. 9: Bad Bunny takes “The Colbert Questionert” and Katherine LaNasa talks about The Pitt season 2. (Originally aired Jan. 28)
Tuesday, Feb. 10: Governor Josh Shapiro talks about the federal law enforcement actions and his memoir Where We Keep the Light. The War and Treaty perform. (Originally aired Jan. 26)
Wednesday, Feb. 11: Alexander Skarsgård talks about Pillon and Jacob Sovoroff discusses his book Firestorm. (Originally aired Jan. 29)
Thursday, Feb. 12: Senator Bernie Sanders talks about disagreements in politics, and Lucinda Williams performs. (Originally aired Jan. 20)
Friday, Feb. 13: John Oliver talks about his past, as he gets ready for the new season of Last Week Tonight. (Originally aired Feb. 2)
Why is The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in reruns this week?
The reruns are likely two-fold. The first is that it’s the Winter Olympics, and it’s not easy going up against the world sporting event. However, the show is only taking a week off, so that’s not the biggest reason for it.
The biggest reason is scheduling out the episodes. Like with scripted TV, there are only so many episodes to fill a season, and we know that The Late Show needs to get to Thursday, May 21, which is when the series finale will air. This means opting for reruns now and then, and February just likely worked as a good time due to the Winter Olympics.
We will have another break coming in in March. That’s as far as the tickets go for now to be able to tell. All of February is sold out, but there are tickets still available for March shows if you want to see The Late Show live.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on CBS.