Former SNL funnyman Dennis Miller became the victim of an apparent corporate restructure when CNBC canceled his talk show Dennis Miller. Citing low ratings, CNBC pulled the plug on Miller and will air reruns of Mad Money with Jim Cramer until a replacement show is announced.
This is the second show CNBC has axed in a week, the other being Topic A with Tina Brown. Insiders speculate that CNBC may be trying to return to its business roots in preparation for the launch of Fox News'' all-business channel. In another possible sign, CNBC president Mark Hoffman said the network will be moving its Business Day programming into prime time.
This was Miller's second talk- show. The Emmy award-winning Dennis Miller Live ran from 1994 to 2002 on HBO. There's been no comment yet from Miller's camp on the cancellation.
Just keeping with the tradition of posting one comment to this every year.
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Is Mad Money the show with the guy who takes calls and then yells about stocks while a camera roves around him? If so, I applaud NBC for taking America one step closer to the future first envisioned by the media satires in Robocop.