Stephen Colbert is wondering why 'The Late Show' was canceled for financial reasons if CBS' parent company Paramount can offer $108 billion to acquire Warner Bros.

Even if Paramount Skydance Corp. manages to take over Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. against the company’s will, it faces another high hurdle: coping with the colossal $54 billion of debt it’s planning to take on.

While accepting an award, "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley said his program has not faced any corporate interference from the new Paramount owners.

While accepting his recognition as a Walter Cronkite Award honoree for his coverage of the Trump administration's threats to major law firms, the career journalist said that after the Paramount-Skydance merger and the departures of EPP Bill Owens and Wendy McMahon as president of the news division,

Congressional Democrats raise national security concerns over Paramount’s hostile Warner Bros. bid, noting Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are providing over half the financing. The deal threatens control of CNN, HBO and Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, which shape news and cultural content for millions of Americans.

Paramount sent a letter from CEO David Ellison addressed to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders that 'clearly sets out why Paramount’s $30.00 per share all-cash offer to acquire all of WBD is superior to WBD’s transaction with Netflix.

The eye-popping numbers led Late Show host Stephen Colbert to muse about the Paramount bid during his monologue Tuesday night. (Paramount owns CBS, which airs The Late Show. )

Yellowstone actor Hassie Harrison is set to join 1923 star Brandon Sklenar in the Paramount's modern western thriller The Rescue.