New Late-Night show waits for Stephen Colbert on Elsbeth

Late-night show veteran and comedian Stephen Colbert is reportedly returning to a new, fictional late-night show after CBS’s “purely financial decision” to cancel The Late Show next year.

Colbert is reported to appear as a guest star on CBS’s police procedural dramedy Elsbeth.

The news was first reported by Vulture, which noted that Elsbeth is a spinoff of The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Colbert will play the host of the fictional Way Late with Scotty Bristol, and the appearance “was almost surely planned” before CBS’s announcement, according to the news outlet.

Production for the upcoming show started in New York this week.

It is not confirmed when Colbert signed on for the episode or when it will air on CBS.

However, in an interview with Elsbeth star Wendell Pierce back in February, Colbert revealed that he had asked the network multiple times if he could play a “corpse” in an upcoming episode.

“I want to be the body that’s found behind the pile of lettuce boxes or something like that,” Colbert added.

In response, Pierce promised to “make that happen” for Colbert, as the series had just been renewed for a third season.

Elsbeth season 3 is set to premiere on October 12.

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