Fans of Daniel Tosh and his particular brand
of sarcastic comedy recently received some
extremely bad news.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Comedy
Central has decided to pull the plug on the
comedian's long-running commentary show Tosh.0.
"My time's already up?"
The show has been on the air since 2009, so
regardless of how you feel about its provocative
host, the announcement certainly means that
an era of entertainment is coming to an end
in 2020.
Fortunately, fans won't have to go cold turkey.
We still have the show's 10-episode season
12, which is set to premiere in September
and conclude in November.
After that, though, it's lights out for Comedy
Central's longest-running weekly live-action
show.
According to Broadway World, Tosh.0 was an
immediate hit from its very first season,
to the point that it became the most watched
show in its time slot in the 18-24-year-old
males demographic.
"And for that, we thank you, ha ha ha ha."
Tosh's irreverent commentary of viral clips
and memes seemed good to go for years to come,
too.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes, in January
2020 Comedy Central renewed the show for no
less than four seasons a total of 80 episodes.
So, what could have prompted Comedy Central
to do such a 180-degree turn all of a sudden?
When Tosh.0 was initially renewed for those
four seasons, the comedian jokingly exclaimed
in a statement,
"I'm very excited and grateful!
I just wish my parents got to see me reach
this level of success.
They're both still alive, but they only have
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV and Quibi."
According to Slash Film, the show was slated
for return in March, but thanks to the COVID-19
pandemic, production was shut down and the
show was sent on hiatus.
There's been speculation that the cancellation
might have been prompted by the financial
difficulties of Comedy Central's parent company,
ViacomCBS.
Still, Tosh.0 is a bit of a golden goose,
in that it's both popular and relatively inexpensive
to produce so it may be worth looking into
other possible reasons for the cancellation.
The news of Tosh.0's fate arrived in the wake
of the network's cancellation of Drunk History,
the popular, star-studded show that had also
been renewed before the bad news came.
The channel's The Other Two and South Side
recently moved to HBO Max, and Corporate finished
its run.
This means that besides The Daily Show with
Trevor Noah, the only other surviving Comedy
Central live-action comedy show is Awkwafina
Is Nora From Queens.
Meanwhile, it seems that the network is planning
to go all in on tried-and-tested adult animation
— literally.
They've greenlit reboots of previously successful
properties like Beavis and Butt-Head and Ren
& Stimpy, as well as ordered a new Daria spin-off
called Jodie.
Tosh has pretty much confirmed that his show's
fate and the channel's new focus are related,
as far as he's concerned.
He wrote on Twitter,
"After 12 years together, Comedy Central and
I are consciously uncoupling.
They get the cartoons, and I'm heading to
any network with stronger Wi-Fi."
"There you go, now everyone's offended."
This doesn't mean Tosh is gone forever.
The comedian has always had an array of side
projects outside the show.
The early 2020 renewal deal originally came
with the news that Tosh would also develop
new projects for the network, with at least
two shows under various stages of development.
It remains to be seen whether Tosh's other
Comedy Central opportunities were cancelled
with Tosh.0, but even that wouldn't be the
end of the world for him.
Reports indicate that Tosh and his team are
planning to shop the show to other networks,
and with its low production costs and built-in
popularity, it's not hard to imagine that
someone will bite.
Tosh himself seems to be in a confident enough
mood, considering he reacted to the cancellation
news by joking in a statement,
"I look forward to doing an animated reboot
of my show on MTV in 25 years."
The upcoming weeks and months will likely
bring more news about Tosh.0 and its host.
As it stands, though, the final season of
the long-running series is due to start airing
on September 15th.
"Alright, see you guys next season."
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