Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing new about shows and movies buying \u201cFor Your Consideration\u201d billboards for themselves, reminding upward-looking Oscar or Emmy voters, come ballot time, about projects that might have slipped their vertically-oriented minds. It\u2019s quite a bit less common, though, for a TV show to run an FYC campaign for one of its direct rivals\u2026 which is exactly what makes a recent gesture by Jimmy Kimmel so interesting. Per Variety<\/a>, Kimmel recently put up a billboard<\/a> at a major intersection in industry-central West Hollywood, featuring his face, the logo for his ABC show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and a simple message: \u201cI\u2019m voting for Stephen.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel hasn\u2019t been shy about his support for CBS colleague Stephen Colbert, whose\u00a0Late Show\u00a0will be ending next year, having been handed a cancellation<\/a> that\u2019ll go into effect at the end of its current season. Both Kimmel and NBC co-Jimmy Fallon have expressed their sympathy and unhappiness over the move from CBS parent company Paramount, which has sworn that it was entirely motivated by financial concerns\u2014and not, say, Colbert\u2019s vocal critiques of how the company has bent itself in pursuit of FCC approval for its upcoming merger with Skydance. Kimmel (who Donald Trump has gleefully suggested is \u201cnext\u201d<\/a> on the chopping block) minced no words in his assessment of the network\u2019s conduct: \u201cFuck you and all your Sheldons CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, there\u2019s a difference between some Instagram shit-talking and actually putting your show\u2019s marketing budget where your mouth is, and Kimmel has clearly gone in hard for the latter. (The cynic in us notes that there\u2019s no way Kimmel could campaign against\u00a0Colbert in this climate and come out a winner\u2014he either gets steamrolled under public sentiment or looks like a huge jerk if he actually manages to score the statue\u2014but this is still pretty costly and public as far as public gestures of solidarity go, and pretty cool to see in terms of support a contemporary during scary political times.)<\/p>\n\n