But not all talk shows have had the benefit of that kind of longevity and legacy — some were cancelled after a few months while others barely made it to a couple of weeks, despite being helmed by big names like Joan Rivers, Chevy Chase and Conan O'Brien. Here are eight talk shows that seemingly vanished overnight, due to less-than-stellar ratings, schedule snafus and some good old-fashioned behind-the-scenes beef.
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8 Talk Shows That Seemingly Vanished Overnight
The Chevy Chase Show was cancelled by FOX after just six weeks on air.Everett Collection
However, the talk show barely lasted more than a month on air; it was widely panned by critics (“Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing,” Richard Zoglin wrote in TIME magazine) and suffered lower ratings than competitors like Late Show with David Letterman, and so it was cancelled after just six weeks.
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The Dennis Miller Show
Though the show was meant to rival those by Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall and the like, Miller's talk show was unable to build a significant audience, especially due to several confounding timeslot switch-ups and purported difficulties booking guests. Despite considerable efforts from Miller and co. — including announcing a 1-900 phone number on air for fans to call and demand the series' continuation — The Dennis Miller Show was cancelled after just seven months.
The titular host of The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers was fired by FOX and replaced by Arsenio Hall.FOX
Alas, that infamous off-camera beef didn’t manifest into major ratings and viewership for Rivers’ show quickly sagged after its October 1986 debut. Only seven months later, simmering tensions between the host and network executives boiled over: Rivers’ husband and executive producer, Edgar Rosenberg, was barred from the show by FOX and Rivers herself was fired in May 1987 after just 13 weeks, with Arsenio Hall coming in to replace her.
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Thicke of the Night
Sadly, Thicke's primetime follow-up didn't have the same kind of success — the 90-minute show simply couldn't compete with the late-night juggernaut that was (and still is) The Tonight Show, especially with Thicke of the Night's ambitious and then-unconventional mix of musical numbers and sketch comedy alongside the more traditional talk-show format. “‘Thicke of the Night’ was an unproducible, unmanageable experiment,” the host told TV Guide back in 1988. “I don’t think you’ll see anything like it tried for a while."
Luckily for Thicke, he followed up that failure with American stardom viaGrowing Pains only a year later.
Basketball player Magic Johnson hosted the talk show The Magic Hour back in 1998Michael Caulfield / Associated Press
One such critic was veteran broadcaster-slash-comedian Howard Stern, who regularly roasted Johnson's series on his own morning program, The Howard Stern Show. In a bit of a ratings gimmick, Johnson invited Stern onto The Magic Hour, but the buzz drummed up by the appearance was only temporary and the talk show was cancelled after just eight weeks.
Busy Tonight
Best known for roles in series like Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, Cougar Town and Girls5Eva, actress Busy Philipps flexed a different type of TV-star muscle as the host of the E! talk show Busy Tonight.
However, despite wrangling in high-profile guests likeJulia Roberts, Tina Fey, Kim Kardashian and more, Busy Tonight couldn't escape negative reviews and a timeslot pushback. Airing since October 2018, the program was cancelled by E! in May 2019.
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Longtime Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak dipped into late-night territory with The Pat Sajak Show in 1989.CBS
Sajak's series was the network's first attempt at a late-night talk show since The Merv Griffin Show, which ended back in 1972; sadly, that attempt didn't last nearly as long as its predecessor, with CBS announcing the cancellation due to low ratings that April. Sajak didn't even appear on the show's final installment, with comedian Paul Rodríguez hosting instead.
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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
In January 2010, NBC announced that it was planning to move Jay Leno back to his original 11:35 p.m. timeslot and have O'Brien's show to follow after midnight, a schedule switch-up that saw Conan threatening to quit. But the comedian didn't have to — after two weeks of negotiations, NBC bought out the rest of O'Brien's contract and controversially reinstated Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. O'Brien's seven-month run remains the shortest in the franchise's history.
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