Stephen Colbert on the set of The Late Show.

With just over a month to go before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is shuttered forever, CBS has announced which program will take its place.

Colbert will sign off on the long-running late-night talkfest on Thursday May 21st, and on Friday, May 22nd, the network will move back-to-back episodes Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen into the 11:35pm ET time period. Comics Unleashed is a half-hour program and is currently airing at 12:35am. The newly vacant time period will be filled by two episodes of another Allen-produced series, a comedy game show called Funny You Should Ask, which is another 30 minute program.

CBS claimed the cancellation was not because of Colbert’s history of comedy monologues humorously criticizing the Trump administration, but because of the Late Show‘s diminishing return-on-investment: the expense of producing the show was not justified by the series’ low ratings. The timing coincided with CBS parent company Paramount’s need for FCC approval of its proposed sale to Skydance media.

Colbert has been the host of The Late Show since 2015, when he took over for David Letterman. Letterman launched the show in 1993.

Comics Unleashed has been produced for television syndication for 20 years, and Funny You Should Ask has been on non-network TV since 2017. Both are part of Byron Allen’s television empire, the Allen Media Group, which includes The Weather Channel, film distributor Freestyle Releasing, and production house Entertainment Studios.

Comics Unleashed image courtesy of Allen Media Group.

Show quality and ratings potential aside, production costs on Comics Unleashed is highly certain to be significantly less than the cost of producing The Late Show, so CBS should see a minor bump of their late-night ROI.

Allen said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that the comics on his show have been asked to keep their humor non-political.

“I tell the comedians we’re shooting ‘I Love Lucy,'” Allen said. “Something that’s evergreen. So I don’t want to hear any political humor. Just be funny, family-friendly and advertiser-friendly.”