Too bad. I thought W. Kamau Bell had really grown into his role and foolishly assumed that things were going along fine. Apparently only around 1200 people were watching his show though since the switch to FXX. Ouch. I’ll miss the perspective the show brought. It was always worth the DVR space.
I’ve no opinion of the show (never watched it) but I wonder how well the FXX thing is going. We only get it in standard definition (Comcast, Chicago suburbs) so we just wait for the shows we want to see to hit On Demand and watch them then in HD. Which means that we still see the commercials packaged in the On Demand viewing but we never casually watch the channel.
I’d like to see Comedy Central pick up his show as a weekend “fill-in” for The Daily Show. I think it’d be too much to have TDS, The Colbert Report and Totally Biased on nightly, but I’d love to have some new content over the weekend.
Admittedly, I’m part of the problem; I didn’t watch the show recently. I tried it out when it first aired (before he hit his stride, I guess) and didn’t really get into it. But, I think Bell is very smart, perceptive, and funny and would be a good addition to the Comedy Central family. I wish him well.
Bummer, Frank “TV’s Frank” Conniff was a writer for that show.
This is a good idea I think. I find I watch about an hour at a time. Usually Stewart/Colbert together and two episodes of Bell together or one with a Nikki and Sara Live. By the end of the weekend I’m often out of smart funny talk shows. We need more. Good shows don’t get picked up very often though.
And there you go.
In a lot of smaller TV markets, they don’t even measure time-shifted viewing and in the markets that do (all of the major ones), they rarely measure out past 7 days, and in many cases clients look at Live + Same Day (or Live + 1, Live + 3). Rarely Live + 7.
Unfortunately, not enough people were watching him either live or quickly enough to make a difference.