Colbert’s late show on CBS has never won a TV Academy prize. The president could well now have changed that. The video plays like a cave painting from the Neolithic era or, even more distantly, from when late-night television still mattered: Stephen Colbert sits in the host chair and makes amends with Donald Trump.

T he FCC has approved the Skydance acquisition of Paramount for $8 billion. This comes after Paramount settled its lawsuit with Trump, and the company paid the president $16 million, and also after CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as a purely “financial decision”.