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"The Nightly Show" With Larry Wilmore canceled by Comedy Central
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Your support makes all the difference.Larry Wilmore’s series The Nightly Show has been canceled by Comedy Central.
The show has been cut by the network after a year and a half run, the network announced on Monday. Its final episode will run on Thursday night.
Comedy Central’s president Kent Alterman said he informed Wilmore of the cancelation late last week. “Even though we’ve given it a year and a half, we’ve been hoping against hope that it would start to click with our audience, but it hasn’t happened and we’ve haven’t seen evidence of it happening,” Alterman told The New York Times.
Chris Hardwick’s gameshow @Midnight will temporarily fill its spot. Wilmore’s The Nightly Show debuted in January 2015 after The Colbert Show ended its run. The decision ends the 54-year-olds run at the Viacom-owned channel.
“I’m really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity,” Wilmore said in a statement. “But I’m also saddened and surprised we won’t be covering this crazy election or ‘The Unblackening’ as we’ve coined it. And keeping it 100, I guess I hadn’t counted on ‘The Unblackening’ happening to my time slot as well.”