Comedian Whitney Cummings may have inadvertently revealed the cancellation of her NBC comedy Whitney, by announcing her upcoming talk show on E! While there’s been no official word from NBC on the fate of Whitney, E! has declared that it has indeed given Cummings’ new weekly talk show – dubbed Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings - the green light.
Love You, Mean It, which will air Wednesdays this fall along with The Soup, is officially described as “Cummings’ open forum to discuss her favorite topics, which include pop culture and celebrity happenings, life, relationships, sex and more.” Joining Cummings for the ride will be talk show sidekick and stand-up comedian Julian McCullough (Very Funny News).
In a statement regarding her new talk show, Cummings had this to say, “This show gives me a chance to get back to my stand-up roots. And I’m really excited to be able to say (almost) whatever I’d like on TV again. So thanks, E!”
Cummings is in familiar territory with late-night talk shows, she started off as a regular on Chelsea Handler’s show Chelsea Lately as a comedy panelist, discussing pretty much the exact same stuff she’ll be chit-chatting about on her own talk show. The two shows won’t be in any type of conflict, as Handler will be an executive producer for Cumming’s new show.
Although E! and NBC are owned by NBCUniversal, it seems unlikely that Cummings will pull double duty on her sitcom Whitney and talk show Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings. Whitney has not been a great success for either Cummings or NBC: the show has been met with less than great critical or fan approval, and has seen a steady ratings drop since its debut, thus adding to the cancellation speculation. On the flipside, 2 Broke Girls, a show Cummings co-created for CBS, has been doing moderately well and has already been renewed for a second season.
It appears likely that Cummings is jumping off the sinking Whitney ship before it’s officially canceled. By Cummings couched dig at NBC seems she’s not too thrilled with NBC’s censorship of her sitcom, which tends to be a common thing for adult-humor stand-up comedians that take shows on “family” oriented networks.
In some other quick E! news, the network has also announced a Jonas Brother reality show, as well as a number of scripted shows including a Wizard of Oz-inspired drama.
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More on the fate of Whitney when it comes up – and catch Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, this fall on E!
Source: Zap2It
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That kind of sucks.
Whitney is one of the best shows on NBC. I love it.
Whitney Cummings is as funny as a headache. This dribble. I one get a few channels here…. free up my air space. fire this hopelessly obvious and NOT funny tart.
What was the firt joke that Arnold said in his “book” that the guy was reading off
What was Arnold’s first joke that guy was reading off of his book. It was so good.
I agree. I love whitney. Hope it doesn’t go away, wanted to see much much more. fingers crossed!
Get rid of Whitney. Keep Community.
I LOVED her before her sitcom. Now I don’t know if I’ll tune in to something else or not.
I like her show what Chris D’Elia going to do he’s funny as hell go check out his stand up on youtube
This show really found it’s legs after the first few episodes… had me in stitches many times!!! So hope it gets another chance. This show was very very funny. So much crap on television… 2 broke girls is one of the least funniest sitcoms I’ve ever seen, PERIOD. It’s horribly acted and not humorous by anyone’s standards.
Hmmm … coincidence I gave up on it after a few episodes. I guessed I just missed where they became funnier.
Hopefully NBC is smart enough to keep Whitney. So many people were liking it towards the end of the season and it has potential with a better lead-in to get more exposure.
NBC needs to learn to promote their shows on more that posters and billboards. ~ Stark
NBC’s ratings are in the toilet. That’s a fact. The myth of Whitney’s ratings is a myth. The pilot was seen by many who left, yes. But Whitney on Thursdays did better than 30 Rock, Community and Parks and Recreation are doing. On Wednesdays (where it was moved in January), it led off the night and was NBC’s highest rated show. That speaks to strength and it would be great if we had outlets that pointed that out instead of mindlessly repeating ‘Oh, the ratings fell off.’ Whitney opening Wednesday nights for NBC wasn’t just the highest rated program for the network that night, it got higher ratings than all of NBC’s sitcoms except The Office.
You can refer to ratings for Whitney here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Whitney_episodes
You can see NBC’s Thursday night ratings for last week here:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/04/thursday-final-ratingsthe-big-bang-theory-american-idol-vampire-diaries-greys-anatomy-adjusted-up-secret-circle-the-mentalist-scandal-adjusted-down/132411/
Whitney was attacked non-stop. But it delivered ratings and to imply otherwise is less than honest.
The show still stinks. Cancel it.
if it delivered ratings why was it cancelled
Whitney and her show stinks. She belongs on E!
I love the show Whitney…
How can any of you say that you enjoyed “Whitney”? It should have been buried in the doomed sitcom graveyard along side “Joey”, “After Mash” and a lot of other shows I can’t remember the names of as one of the worst TV series ever. I’m not trying to insult Whitney Cumnmings, but clearly there’s a difference between what she thinks is funny and what the rest of us do.
NBC can’t get rid of the show soon enough, as far as I’m concerned.
I loved the show Whitney. My husband and I watched it every week. I loved the spin they put on relationship issues. Sucks that it’s cancelled!!
Oh PLEASE cancel that crap. Not funny bad acting. Make it go away!!!
ANYONE WHO POSTS WHITTNEY IS FUNNY SHOULD GET A DARWIN AWARD AND THE MEDAL TO GO WITH IT.
cancel this s***e.
while we are her cancel her full stop…. lame as …
Whitney – not funny – difficult to even watch commercials – same with 2 Broke Girls – now a talk show – who is she sleeping with????
Chelsea Lately wanna be? This show sucks
Whitney got better in season 2, but the jokes can still be so long winded it hurts. Why can’t she see it? There is a difference between standup comedy and TV shows, and the sooner she realizes it the better. Whitney is a very smart woman, and she can be funny as hell, I just think she needs to callibrate her compass a bit and adopt to TV sitcoms. She is also beautiful and sexy so much it bloody hurts.
As for 2 Broke girls… I think that Kat Dennings is killing it. Why on earth did Whithney get her I’ll never understand. That woman is lilke a wooden doll, she simply can’t act. There are Japanese robots that are better actors than her.
Who in the world told Whitney Cummings she’s funny! What television does not need is another skinny, loud, foul mouthed b***h with a talk show. She was meanspirited on Chelsea, WHITNEY the sitcom is/was horrible, and Two Broke Girls….just more of the same awfulness!!
Whitney has a boring show. I had hope. But no time to waste. Cancel.
I said – Whitney has no chemistry for TV – no timing for the medium. Stick to stand up. Dont try to be Chelsea – God bless, but move on. Boring show. Not funny. Ripping on the “Hollywoods” does not work for you – they wont find it charming like Chelsey
Plz don’t cancel the show Whitney! We love it!! Its funny and so cute and well written!
Another great show cancelled! Idiots!
The show had great potential but we(family)couldn’t help but notice the laugh track was way over used. Also, the writers had Whitney laugh too often along with the laugh track at even the mediocre one liners from her co-stars. We do love Whitney and look forward to seeing her in other projects in the future.
That sucks! It was about the only show I still watched on NBC’s primetime!!
I was so happy to see that Whitney made it to season 2. I am sad to hear it’s being canceled and that there will be no season 3 though. My boyfriend and I find the show absolutely hilarious and we’ve seen an episode of season 2 live and were in the audience. She most definitely does not use a laugh track.