--- title: CBS Sets Premiere for 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' description: David Letterman will broadcast his final show in May. canonical: https://time.com/3664100/stephen-colbert-premiere/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-12T18:10:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:15.844Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: CBS Sets Premiere for 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' og:description: David Letterman will broadcast his final show in May. og:url: https://time.com/3664100/stephen-colbert-premiere/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fd454f4241f5083/69877976cd1bbadc726f497c/stephencolbertlatenight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Obama Tapes An Interview For The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: CBS Sets Premiere for 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' twitter:description: David Letterman will broadcast his final show in May. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3fd454f4241f5083/69877976cd1bbadc726f497c/stephencolbertlatenight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # CBS Sets Premiere for _Late Show With Stephen Colbert_ by [Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly Jan 12, 2015 6:10 PM CUT  Stephen Colbert during a taping of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.' Stephen Colbert during a taping of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.'Getty Images by [Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly Jan 12, 2015 6:10 PM CUT Stephen Colbert will make his CBS debut this fall. CBS announced Monday that the _Late Show with Stephen Colbert_ will premiere Tuesday, Sept. 8\. “I have nine months to make a show, just like a baby,” Colbert said. “So first, I should find out how you make a baby.” As for what format the new _Late Show_ will take, CBS boss Nina Tassler said at the Television Critics Association’s winter TV previews that Colbert’s team has only just begun to work things out. “They’ve actually just moved into their offices,” she said. “They’ve just started working. He will have music on the show. He said, ‘I have to be entertaining as my guests,’ so he’s going to have guests on the show. Whether or not he’s going to start with a monologue, he’s working on that right now. Clearly he knows that he’s introducing himself, the real Stephen Colbert to his audience. He’s really putting a lot of attention on making sure that the show is still topical and still relevant.” After 22 years, David Letterman will broadcast his final show from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater on Wednesday, May 20\. Tassler noted that the network plans to air encores of its original programming throughout the summer in the 11:35 p.m. time slot, and may be interested in some Letterman specials leading up to his retirement. _This_ [_article_](http://www.insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/12/late-show-stephen-colbert-premiere-date/?hootPostID=6122d1014bae7446016386f9ab871823 "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ### See 13 Stephen Colbert Cameos You Might Have Missed  The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Lake-town Spy Todd Eyre—Warner Bros.  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