JamesG
05-12-2010, 09:50 AM
Comedy Central Cancels "Sarah Silverman Program"
by Kim Potts
posted May 12th 2010
The first season of "The Sarah Silverman Program" was hilarious.
Ditto, for the most part, its over-the-top second season.
But the third?
Comedy Central had shifted the show from 10:30PM to midnight. And now, the series has been cancelled.
Deadline reports that the third season, which ended on April 15, will be the show's last, as the network has decided not to renew Silverman's comedy for a fourth season.
The decision shouldn't come as a major surprise to anyone, as season 3 almost didn't happen. Comedy Central had asked Silverman and company to cut the show's budget by more than 20 percent, and only after Comedy Central sister network Logo agreed to co-finance the series did "Program" move forward.
And "Sarah Silverman Program" co-star Brian Posehn told TV Squad last month that he thought the series would end after season 3. "... we felt that kind of going in. Just because it was so tough to get them to give us the money to do the third season, we had to jump through so many hoops,"
"I feel like we're lucky to have done what we've done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four. But I'd also be completely surprised if it happened."
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/05/12/comedy-central-cancels-sarah-silverman-program/
by Kim Potts
posted May 12th 2010
The first season of "The Sarah Silverman Program" was hilarious.
Ditto, for the most part, its over-the-top second season.
But the third?
Comedy Central had shifted the show from 10:30PM to midnight. And now, the series has been cancelled.
Deadline reports that the third season, which ended on April 15, will be the show's last, as the network has decided not to renew Silverman's comedy for a fourth season.
The decision shouldn't come as a major surprise to anyone, as season 3 almost didn't happen. Comedy Central had asked Silverman and company to cut the show's budget by more than 20 percent, and only after Comedy Central sister network Logo agreed to co-finance the series did "Program" move forward.
And "Sarah Silverman Program" co-star Brian Posehn told TV Squad last month that he thought the series would end after season 3. "... we felt that kind of going in. Just because it was so tough to get them to give us the money to do the third season, we had to jump through so many hoops,"
"I feel like we're lucky to have done what we've done, and I would be very happy to come back and do a season four. But I'd also be completely surprised if it happened."
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/05/12/comedy-central-cancels-sarah-silverman-program/