"The Arsenio Hall Show" Canceled After One Season Due To It Not Being Financially Viable
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The Arsenio Hall Show has been canceled after one season, according to Variety.
CBS, which broadcast the program, put an end to the show after its first season because the program was no longer deemed financially viable, the story says.
“Unfortunately, The Arsenio Hall Show will not return for a second season,” CBS said in a statement, according to Variety. “While there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue. Arsenio is a tremendous talent and we’d like to thank him for all the hard work and energy he put into the show. We’d also like to thank Tribune and all our station group partners for their support of the show.”
The initial run of Hall’s show was in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In February, Hall featured an interview with Suge Knight, who said that the record industry woes he saw early in his career continue to have an effect on today’s rappers.
“The deals are still messed up,” Suge said. “I think it’s unfair if you really look at it, if you look at Interscope, the two guys from Compton—Game, Kendrick Lamar—got two of the worst deals in the industry. And when you look at it, it’s not so much the production company fault, but what people don’t realize is that if you’re on Universal, it’s the ship. Then Interscope get they cut, thenAftermath get they cut, then G-Unit get they cut. Then the guy who really has Game signed, it was another production company, then it came to Game. The reality is there’s more slavery now than ever.” While Hall checked Knight’s statement—and later quipped "12 Years A Rapper"—the record exec touted some industry deals as “worse.” “When you were a slave you knew it was bad,” he said. “When you was a slave, you was like, ‘? , it’s bad.’ But it’s worse when somebody make you be a celebrity and put you on a status and you thanking a person for stabbing you in the back.”
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Damn homie
That show was the jam homie -
The show was too Black for CBS, probably.
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I thought he was already on his 2nd Season now ....
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Damn ...."bring back Arsenio".....Nas
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times done changed
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Needed a new formula.
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IDK, i feel like if it would've been Aired on VH-1 (basically the new BET) , his show wouldve done better .
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Racism continues
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it was poorly executed... this aint the 90s. It was a good show... should've went a different route like pairing with a Netflix or Hulu for exclusive content...
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Damn.
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I use to catch it when ever i could... very entertaining show i dont know what its go take for us to get AND KEEP a black late night tv show airing or just any show period other than that love and hiphop or housewife ? .
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We can't have ?
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I didnt watch it all the time but it was pretty good.. i thought it would be white washed it didnt capture the essence it had back in the day but it was a good look.
Being on the CW sure didnt help -
Only watched it when there was a cool guest on the show.
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Black shows are like black NBA/NFL coaches
You get a chance but your room for error is so thin its almost invisible..... if you don't put up superior numbers in the first year the axe will come down -
Black shows are like black NBA/NFL coaches
You get a chance but your room for error is so thin its almost invisible..... if you don't put up superior numbers in the first year the axe will come down
RIP Kevin Hill -
Black shows are like black NBA/NFL coaches
You get a chance but your room for error is so thin its almost invisible..... if you don't put up superior numbers in the first year the axe will come down
Even if u put up good #'s You still get the door. Lionel Hollins, Mark Jackson. -
bold = went to western conference finals in 2013, unemployed in 2014
underlined = won a playoff series in 2013, won 51 games, fired for nothing in 2014
Rip Arsenio
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point blank the show was garbage. hes really not that good of a host. his interview skills were lacking, his jokes were forced and most of the time he had lame ass guests. that being said he was a legend in the 90s as being the only talk show host to give a platform for our artists. hopefully we get another show soon, just keep it away from cw, tbs, and bet. maybe on vh1 like someone else said.
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Meh the writing was on the wall when he had lil Terio as a guest.
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Damn I liked the show. Decent good monologues and segments and solid guest nightly. ? up