No more POINTS! No more Hashtag wars?! Say it ain’t so, Chris Hardwhick!
Deadline reported today that the weeknight comedy series @Midnight will end it’s run on Comedy Central after 600 episodes on Friday August 4th. The move to end the show is said to be a mutual decision by both Hardwhick and Comedy Central.
CC President Kent Alterman spoke on the move saying the following.
We took a big macro look and we started having conversations with Chris. We feel incredibly proud of the show, we think it’s had an amazing run. How many shows can say that they’d hit 600 episodes? It was a little bit of the audience telling us over time, and we mutually thought, “You know what, maybe we should walk away holding our heads high and proud, full of appreciation and gratitude.”
Hardwhick himself cleared the air, making it clear the time is right to sign off on this show which has been consistently one of the funniest on weekly TV.
@midnight has meant the world to me these last four years. It has been a dream to come to work 600 times to make inappropriate jokes about the Internet with my fellow comedian friends. I could not be more proud of this show, staff and crew and at the end of the day, I think we accomplished everything we wanted to accomplish. Spiritually it just feels like it ran its course — I’m not sure we had many more hashtag games in us (which may actually be a relief to anyone whose Twitter feed gets overrun every night). I owe such a huge debt of gratitude to Comedy Central and Kent for taking a chance on the show, always being great partners and allowing us to exit mutually, which is rarely a gift you are given in this business. I will certainly miss awarding POINTS! to people nightly, so please understand if you see me randomly shouting it at strangers in public after August 4th.
