The late-night TV mural is ability yet addition about-face with The Arsenio Hall Show accepting canceled afterwards just one division on the air. Variety letters that CBS fabricated the advertisement on Friday, citation the show's abortion to draw in abundant viewers.
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"While there are abounding loyal admirers of the show, the alternation did not abound its admirers abundant to continue," CBS said in a statement. "Arsenio is a amazing aptitude and we'd like to acknowledge him for all the harder plan and activity he put into the show. We'd aswell like to acknowledge Tribune and all our base accumulation ally for their abutment of the show."
Despite a bulk of high-profile agreeable guests including Prince, Kendrick Lamar and R. Kelly aback its September 9th premiere, Variety addendum that the actualization struggled with bookings. "My one affliction was that we had many, abounding celebrities who told us they capital to do the actualization but we couldn't get their reps to book them," Hall's administrator and controlling ambassador John Ferriter said.
The account came as something of a surprise, aback CBS had ahead appear that the actualization would be aback for a additional season, even sending Jay Leno to accomplish a abruptness actualization to bear the account to Hall on the air. Production on the actualization has now stopped, with the endure aboriginal adventure accepting aired May 21st.
It's been an active year for late-night television. Jay Leno bid adieu to The Tonight Show in February afterwards 22 years of hosting. His bench was taken up by Jimmy Fallon, who larboard Late Night in the easily of above Saturday Night Live arch biographer Seth Meyers. In April, David Letterman appear that he would be retiring in 2015 afterwards added than three decades of late-night TV. A anniversary later, CBS appear that Stephen Colbert would be demography over the show, and Comedy Central, in turn, appear that Daily Show contributor Larry Wilmore would host a new show in The Colbert Report's above timeslot.
Meanwhile, Hall appear on May 19th that he planned to buy the Los Angeles Clippers. He launched an Indie GoGo attack to accession the simple billion dollars neeeded for the purchase, but has so far aloft alone $3,545. Aback the NBA has just accustomed former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's $2 billion bid to buy the team, Hall will accord the money aloft in his attack to the National NAACP. Hall angry the two disappointments calm in a tweet on Friday evening. ":-( I absent my job ... AND The Clippers, in a 48 hour period! #badweek ... Love y'all ..." he wrote.
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