FOX has canceled Talkshow with Spike Feresten, wiping its Saturday late-night slate clean for next season.
Feresten’s show, which ran for three years, won’t be back for a fourth, Broadcasting & Cable reports.
Talkshow currently follows MADtv, which will end its 14-season run on May 16.
FOX isn’t ceding the territory entirely, though. The network announced in April that it will air a new show with comedian Wanda Sykes on Saturdays starting in the fall.
Feresten, a former writer for Seinfeld, The Late Show with David Letterman and others, launched his show to modest fanfare in 2006, and it never really became a player in the late-night game.
Talkshow got a brief tryout at 11 p.m. Saturdays in the fall but was soon back in its midnight spot.
Sykes’ untitled show will feature guests interacting in panel discussions, a la Real Time with Bill Maher, along with taped pieces featuring the comic outside the studio.
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