May 12, 2005

CNBC Canceling Dennis Miller's Talk Show

CNBC is canceling comic Dennis Miller's low-rated political talk show after less than 16 months, replacing it with a business show rerun.

Miller's prime-time program, featuring a mixture of comedy, interviews and his conservative political opinion, was seen by an average of 168,000 viewers since its January 2004 launch, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That number has dipped to 114,000 this year with the presidential election campaign over.

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CNBC, which has struggled to find an audience for anything in prime-time...

How predictable was this?
In fact, I think that NBC's plan was to get Miller away from FoxNews, control him and then get him off the air, as crazy as that sounds.
It just wouldn't do for the extreme Right Wing knuckle-dragging, hick, evangelical Christian crazies to have a sensible, savvy guy like Dennis as one of our spokespersons!
(Plus, he not only campaigned for President Bush's reelection, he rode on Air Force One with him--and for that, he must be purged and humiliated.)
But then NBC, primo mouthpiece for the Dimocratic Left, has done crazier things than this!
(Turn on Tardball or Olberman any weeknight, if you doubt.)
And Dennis is in "good" company--Tina Brown's show was cancelled, too.
I tried to watch DM's show, but when he got shouted down by his "varsity" panel every night which had been stuffed with Libs, it made for excruciating viewing, much as I like him.
Time for him to get FNC to take him back and get the standup gig with HBO away from that awful putz Maher.