Stephen Colbert performs a parody of a late-night speak present host within the Elsbeth Season 3 premiere, airing on Sunday, October 12, on CBS. Carrie Preston reveals to TV Insider that this episode was filmed one week after The Late Present was abruptly canceled, which raised considerations about whether or not Colbert would even be allowed to visitor star on the CBS procedural.
Colbert’s casting was already locked in when The Late Present was canceled on July 17.
“For months and months, the producers and the writers had been seeking to get him on the present,” Preston tells TV Insider. “After which [Jonathan] Tolins, our showrunner, he particularly wrote this episode for Steven Colbert, after which it simply occurred to be that they introduced his present was ending proper earlier than he got here to do the episode.”
Colbert’s Elsbeth episode was written earlier than The Late Present cancellation, Preston confirms, and no modifications had been made to the script after. She says that the cancellation was introduced one week earlier than Colbert was to start out filming.
“The script was able to go. This occurred the week earlier than,” Preston explains. “As a matter of truth, we had been apprehensive that he may not be capable to come and do the episode on the final minute as a result of he was coping with a variety of stuff, however he was very true to his phrase and his dedication, and he confirmed up and he was unbelievable.”
Colbert visitor stars because the host of a fictional late-night speak present referred to as Approach Late With Scotty Bristol within the Elsbeth Season 3 premiere. Amy Sedaris and Andy Richter costar because the married couple who function Scotty’s head author and present sidekick. Get your first take a look at Colbert, Sedaris, Richter, and extra visitor stars within the Elsbeth Season 3 trailer right here.
Colbert’s last Late Present airs in Might 2026. CBS has maintained that the explanation for the present’s stunning cancellation was purely monetary, however there’s a public consensus that CBS axed the present to capitulate to President Donald Trump, as CBS’s father or mother firm, Paramount International, hoped for the FCC to approve its merger with Skydance. The merger was accepted on July 28.
Elsbeth, Season 3 Premiere, Sunday, October 12, 9:30/8:30c, Common Time Interval Premiere, Thursday, October 16, 10/9c, CBS