Hello Goodbye

I have some thoughts on the finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Actually, I have lots of thoughts, but I'm going to save the discussion of what this means for the future of late night and of CBS/Paramount (particularly Paramount+) for a later post—I might even do one specifically on the extraordinary career of Byron Allen and how he fits into all of this—and play TV critic for now.If you haven't watched the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you should, particularly the last 10 minutes. It was extraordinary television. Even more so if you caught it over the air, because the medium of broadcast television is at least in part the message here.Perhaps the biggest difference between broadcast and streaming media comes down to the distinction between personal versus shared experience. Watching something at the same time as millions of other people is very much a new idea historically speaking.Our modern conception of time was largely shaped by two technologies:…