The Late Show wins at the 2025 Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Series, with Stephen Colbert's touching tribute to Amy Cole highlighting the brutality of CBS' cancelation. TV's biggest night of the year honored the best of small screen in the past cycle. While The Pitt and The Studio won big, Colbert's fan-favorite show also bagged a major milestone.

Colbert is in the middle of a particularly tricky year professionally. As he celebrates his 10th year taking over the TV institution from David Letterman , CBS also surprisingly cancelled The Late Show , citing financial strains. The network has maintained that it was a purely business decision, but there continues to be an argument that it was politically-motivated, as Colbert is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump

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