Just in: TBS has canceled Lopez Tonight, George Lopez's late-night talk show, after two seasons due to low ratings and high costs. The show's last episode will air Thursday.
Lopez, a former ABC sitcom star and stand-up comic, never had big ratings, averaging less than a million viewers in his first season at 11 p.m. But when TBS hired Conan O'Brien last fall and pushed Lopez an hour later, to midnight ET/PT, his audience plummeted 40%, to 546,000 viewers this season.
TBS will air Lopez reruns for the next few weeks, and will then substitute reruns of The Office. It might add an original program "down the road," says spokeswoman Karen Cassell, but has no current plans.
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