The Chris Gethard Show has joined the ever-growing list of TV shows cancelled.
truTV has axed the comedy series after three seasons, with no Season 4.
Host Chris Gethard confirmed the cancellation in a lengthy Facebook post, suggesting the show’s demise was ‘mutually’ decided between himself and the network:
The Chris Gethard Show is dead.
Long live The Chris Gethard Show.
It’s official! The Chris Gethard Show is canceled. Kaput. No more!
I write this with a strange mix of emotions: sadness, worry, uncertainty, but also pride, excitement, and relief.
TCGS has been the defining aspect of my life since 2009. I met my wife through the show. I’ve met my best friends through the show. My career has grown and solidified all because of the work I’ve put into the show, the reputation I’ve built through it, and the things I’ve proved I’m capable of via it.
It is not easy to say goodbye.
But some executives from truTV sat me down a few weeks after this most recent batch of episodes and said, “We’re getting the sense from your final speech, and from some of our behind the scenes conversations, that you might be done with this project.”
I told them they were right.
So, it’s a mutual decision. We were after all, the lowest rated show on the network, something that I take no small amount of pride in. Anyone who knows me knows – if I’m not going to be number one, I see no sense in being number four, or number six. Let’s live on the extremes, either way. Point being, though, that it’s not like they were clamoring to have it back without changes. It was a fair and necessary conversation.
And before I move any further, let me say that I’ve been told that a number of people at truTV actually put in some impassioned pleas for TCGS, saying that they didn’t give a shit about the numbers because there was something special about our show. To those people, I say thank you for having our backs, for seeing something in us, and for fighting the good fight!
So with my hesitation to continue and truTV’s need for numbers improvement, it’s time to throw in the towel.
He continued:
I have so many thoughts.
First off – we’re all going to be fine. I see so many people who have worked on TCGS already going on to great things. Actors who played idiotic characters on our public access show pop up all the time on tv. I’m insanely proud that our writers’ room has employed people who have since gone on to write for SNL, Fallon, HBO, Comedy Central, Netflix, who have sold movies, who have made moves, who are going to be fine. This is not to mention the so many people on the production end who cut their teeth and learned how to be professionals with us, who are also spreading far and wide. I feel like moving forward there will be a strong TCGS family tree, a lineage, that I will always be insanely proud of.
Secondly – if we moved forward, I don’t know that the episodes would have been totally ours anymore, and I know for a fact our dedicated fans would not want that. There’s no way around it – despite how proud I am of every episode we’ve done, it wasn’t getting numbers. I don’t know why. We were always a little too weird, or a little too ahead of our time. On top of that, people don’t watch hour long things on TV anymore. I’m not quite certain, honestly. I tried so hard to get tons of eyes on it. If I could have cracked that code things would have been different, but I couldn’t.
RIP.
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