Comedy Central reverses 4-season renewal & cancels Tosh.0 after 12 seasons

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Tosh.0 becomes the latest casualty of Comedy Central's bid to end its relationship with live-action entertainment in favor of adult animated content. The network has decided that the upcoming 12th season of the show will be the final run of the popular pop culture series.

The news of the cancellation stings a bit more because it was only back in January when Comedy Central actually handed the show a four-season renewal that would've carried Tosh.0 through its 16th season. Comedy Central has been making a hard shift to adult animation over the past few months and they have pared down their live-action slate with its only remaining original live-action series being breakout Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. The plan is to build its original animated slate around South Park and this led to them ordering reboots of Beavis and Butt-Head and The Ren & Stimpy Show, along with the Daria spinoff,  Jodie.

Tosh.0, which is executive produced by Tosh, Charlie Siskel, Nick Malis, and Christie Smith, was a breakout hit when it premiered on June 4, 2009, and it managed to remain steady in the subsequent 11 years, becoming the second-biggest Comedy Central show on Facebook behind South Park. The show, which looks at the ever-changing social media landscape, is Comedy Central’s longest-running weekly live-action show. Including the 12th season, which begins September 15, 2020, it will reach 300 episodes, having run for 11 years. The final season will feature 10 episodes with its finale on November 24, 2020. Created and hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh, ViacomCBS and Tosh plan to shop the series to other networks and digital platforms.

The Tosh.0 cancellation comes a day after the network decided to cancel their other popular live-action series, Drunk History, after six seasons. As stated previously, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens is the lone live-action series left on the network and it was renewed for an early season two some time ago. Earlier this month, Comedy Central moved two of its other live-action shows — The Other Two and South Side— to HBO Max.

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