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Report: Fox to Cancel Wanda Sykes

A reports indicates that Fox plans to cancel The Wanda Sykes Show after only one season.

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Fox reportedly plans to cancel The Wanda Skyes Show starring the lesbian comedian after one season.

According to TV editor Nellie Andreeva at Deadline Hollywood, the late-night talk show has tumbled so far in the ratings that the network plans to replace it, perhaps with a new sketch comedy show.

“The late-night talk show started off strong but tumbled in the ratings as the season went on and fell below the performance of predecessor MadTV in the Saturday 11 PM hour,” reports Andreeva. “Fox has options for the late-night Saturday slot. It has been actively developing sketch comedies this pilot season and ordered two pilots, one written by and starring Dana Carvey and Spike Feresten, with another, from Jamie Foxx and MadTV creators Fax Bahr and Adam Small. Coincidentally, Fox aired MadTV and Spike Feresten's talk show in late-night on Saturday before canceling them last spring and launching The Wanda Sykes Show. But the two new sketch shows were not developed specifically for late night. Sources said Fox is also considering them for primetime, possibly on Fridays or Saturdays.”

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Reader Comments
  • Name: CAROL FREE
    Date posted: 6/5/2010 11:12:17 PM
    Hometown: Bakercity

    Comment:

    My husband and I believe this is the only thing good to watch all week . WE LOVE IT.

  • Name: Franz
    Date posted: 5/15/2010 4:36:06 PM
    Hometown: Seattle

    Comment:

    Arrested Development shouldn't have been cancelled, why is everyone trying to make this a gay issue. Fox and Murdoch are a business and a business first. If you don't get the ratings, gay or straight....you get axed.

  • Name: Bill
    Date posted: 5/15/2010 8:56:18 AM
    Hometown: Bloomington, IN

    Comment:

    I liked her show, she made me laugh more than SNL or Mad TV.

  • Name: Jo
    Date posted: 5/15/2010 2:59:12 AM
    Hometown: DC

    Comment:

    Wanda can be very funny sometimes. Why this show bombed I don't know, maybe the comments below are on to something, but you can't blame Fox - ratings speak for themselves!

  • Name: Raphael
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 8:12:34 PM
    Hometown: World

    Comment:

    Its too bad but I think that Wanda did it to herself, I've watched her show and sometimes she goes too far. I'm not a fan of attacking people under the guise of humour, and the excuse of I'm a comedian and can do that just doesn't wash. She is not the only one guilty of it but is more consistent at it and it can be offensive. That is probably why people started turning away and gay people probably got tired of her being an apologist for Obahma and his broken promises. In many ways her show was very painful to watch, I love Wanda's comedy act, her pithy comments on the everday occurences, her double entendres and general insights into everyday life. That is when she is very funny, she is laughing with not at people or situations. But on her show she has become political, maybe its a response to being on FOX and she is biting the hand that feeds her, its too bad especially if replaced by the sellout Jamie Foxx.

  • Name: jack
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 7:50:59 PM
    Hometown: New York

    Comment:

    Basically, this has to do with one fact. Wanda is not funny at all. She is self righteous defender of the Obama administration. A comedian is supposed to be irreverent and attack the administration not defend it. This has nothing to do with politics. Defending the regime is just not funny.

  • Name: Ballistic
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 4:13:22 PM
    Hometown: SF

    Comment:

    Since seeing the news clippings of her entertaining president Nope, I haven't watched a thing she has done. Don't plan to. Unless she makes a snuff film.

  • Name: Joseph
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 2:43:31 PM
    Hometown: Montgomery, AL

    Comment:

    @David: Maybe if the LGBT folks had spent more time watching Wanda's show instead of going out partying, the ratings might have been better. Fox has cancelled a hell of a lot of shows in the past, giving them even less time to do anything. The reality is that women and late night have never been a good combination. Joan Rivers only managed a handful of episodes as host of Fox's FIRST late-night talk show more than 20 years ago, and not even Whoopi Goldberg could make a success in late-night. But no, let's just vent out wrath at Fox because THAT is so much easier than spending time actually watching Wanda's show. (I'll point out that all that "love" for Sarah Silverman that kept her show on Comedy Central, including Logo's financial backing, didn't last since Sarah's been cancelled by Comedy Central. But wait--Sarah's straight so why did Comedy Central cancel her? Must've been low ratings since CC isn't a bastion of conservative ideology.)

  • Name: Doug
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 2:28:06 PM
    Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD

    Comment:

    Like Megan Mullalley and her talk show, Wanda Sykes also started strong, but the stars weren't able to sustain it. I love them both but perhaps they aren't right to keep a talk show afloat. They both have so much else going for them.

  • Name: Warner
    Date posted: 5/14/2010 1:48:08 PM
    Hometown: Salem, OR

    Comment:

    honestly, the wanda sykes showed tried too hard to be good, and never made the grade. the first few weeks werent anything spectaculer, and it went down from there. I love wanda, I really do, but the setup for this show just didnt work. She works best without structure, where she can just do comedy. This show just felt like it was trying to be a cross of SNL and Chelsea lately.



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