So it’s no surprise, then, that the season three premiere of Elsbeth, which airs on CBS on the Oct. 12, before resuming its usual Thursday night slot on Oct. 16, takes on the late night talk show controversies of recent months. The episode stars Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert also on CBS, as an infamously thorny late night host not unlike the fictionalized character of the same name he portrayed on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.