Culture
15 Aug 16

Comedy Central Cancel Larry Wilmore's Show

The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, Comedy Central's post-Daily Show programme following the end of The Colbert Report, has been canceled by the channel after 20 months on air and nearly 260 episodes.

Comedy Central announced today that Thursday would mark the Nightly Show's final episode, with @Midnight slated to take over the 11:30 p.m. slot until a permanent replacement is found.

"I'm really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and our fans to have had this opportunity," Wilmore said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. "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."

Comedy Central president Kent Alterman told the magazine that the Nightly Show "hasn't connected with our audience in ways that we need it to" both in terms of ratings and viral content.

Early on, the show's viewership benefited from following Stewart's Daily Show, but after that host left that program, The Nightly Show's ratings dropped to its current 0.2 in the 18-49 demographic. With key contracts set to expire, including Wilmore's, Comedy Central opted to cancel the show.

Check Mr. Wilmore out below: