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There's nothing sadder than a big blank space where your cable show's programming schedule used to be. Exactly what fate has befallen Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller, the Versus series that made America fall in love with elephant polo references once again? It's a mystery (for some reason, Versus isn't returning my calls). All that remains of it on the Versus site is this smoking husk, which includes nary a word on the fate of the series that debuted just a scant two months ago.
My best guess is that the show has been canceled. But instead of mourning, I prefer to remember the good times; guests like Jose Canseco, Pete Rose and Warren Sapp (did Miller ever land someone who was actually still active?). Segments like "Ask Dennis," and "Photo Captions." The commercials for bull riding. Good times. It's also possible that Dennis just ditched the whole thing to concentrate on his next big enterprise: NBC's Amne$ia, the game show. Yep, that's a dollar-sign you see in place of the S ... so you know it's going to be good.
Oh well, at least we can count on Friday Night Lights being around forever and ever.
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Looks like Dennis joined Rudy, if you know what I mean...
I hope it measures up to Arli$$!
It is a good thing he has that MNF gig to keep paying the bills
What the hell's a rant?
Kevin Hart announced he was taking over for Dennis Miller.
He's being replaced with "Subliminal Sports with Kevin Nealon."
Bordello of Blood, Part II, babe.
Friday Night Lights! NOOOOOOO!
He was probably depending too much on the ratings in Flordia to make up for low numbers everywhere else.
But... but Denny can't fail!
Oh whither, I thought is said whiter.
Jimmy Fallon wishes he could have a show of his own canceled.
@Carlton_Whitfield: now that, I would watch.
I don't want to get off on a rant here, but if they ever sell "punch Dennis Miller in the mouth" tickets. It'll make crack look like Sanka.
Hmmm...more buck hunting or a nightly NHL studio show...buck hunting...hockey show...buck...puck...aw, fuck it: Rodeo Cagefighting it is!
Easy solution: Sports Unfiltered With Dennis Green.
Oh come on, you wouldn't leave Versus to do a strike-caused prime time game show?
Amne$ia
Who produced the segment embedded on the show's webpage, Phillip Glass?
@Tuffy: I thought it was Rudy who couldn't fail.
/clash'ed
@Dieter: Jan's imaginary boyfriend is not amused!
Versus should replace this show with Everybody Loves Hypnotoad.
Can you remember the last time I was relevant for $100, Babe?
This reminds me that I miss Luis Bunuel references on Monday Night Football.
I haven't been so upset over a show cancellation since they canned The Critic.
Sports Unfiltered is finished like Napoleon at Waterloo.
/Dennis Millerized
Maybe if they would have put the show's content through some sort of sieve, even a coffee filter, things may have turned out better.
Shoulda been you, Frank TV.
[making big loops with a pen on a piece of paper]
Well those are dollar signs, and I ... AM ... OUTTA HERE.
He can be funny in the right element, but that show was missing something...he's a bad interviewer though some other stuff on that show worked pretty well.
Oh yea, it's on VERSUS! More rodeos!
@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: What is this Frank TV you speak of? I've never seen any promos for it or anything.
You mean Dennis Miller couldn't hold on to the huge ratings provided by his lead-in? Say it ain't so!
@TheStarterWife: Is the lime in your gin and tonic showing too much nipple?
@Marth:
Versus are who we thought they were!
@The Fan's Attic: Sorry, you're at least three archaic sub-references short for that to qualify as Miller-ized.
His show blew up faster than the Teapot-Dome scandal, babe.
/wiggles head side to side
Dana Carvey is inconsolable. The "Dueling Dennis" segment was to tape just next week.
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
Miller's show was weaker than Rommel after his loss to Montgomery at the Second Battle of El Alamein.
What the fuck is a skein?
@David Hume: you are crude and feckless, drinkin' brew for breakfast
/Special'ed
Why didn't Gold Case get a chance?!
Well, at least this frees up the Outdoor Life Network to air more NHL games that non-subscribers like me won't be able to see.
Let me tell you youngsters something... Back in the day, the Man was funny. Then he became horribly unfunny, and a Republican.
What network will he be one next? HGTV, NBA TV, MOJO?
@TheStarterWife: Is that a special "Lent Edition" of the avatar?
@Stev D:
Versus Desportes
@Raskolnikov: This game doesn't work!
Shut it down!!
This guy is still alive? Oh, thats right, he's only career-dead.
@Chief Wahoo: @The Legend of Vincent Tremblay: It is the final passing of Defamer editor Lisanti avatar.
/Threadjack
Screaming A Smith has no way to post on his blog anymore.
[www.cnn.com]
End threadjack/
@Carlton_Whitfield: Norm MacDonald blames the cancellation on O.J.
@Stev D: Logo?
Maybe with a little luck they can resurrect his character for The Net 2: Electric Boogaloo.
@TheNorvFace: It was yesterday and it sucked giant balls. Thought I was having a nice quiet afternoon, and then it came back to life with a vengeance.
@strong like bull smart like tractor:
That one fizzled out like Georg Hegel reciting the "Cross of Gold" speech after the 2nd Punic War, babe.
That show met its demise faster than Rudy Giuliani at a Florida...oh wait. Nevermind.
This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank, babe.
@TheStarterWife: Ah. No sprechen zie Defamer
"Let's face it. Sports Unfiltered is Fredo sitting in the boat saying a Hail Mary."
"Sports Unfiltered" is being replaced by "Chris Berman Deaux, Deaux, Deaux".
This reminds of me of the time when the Athenians and the Mennonites fought for the hand of Plato at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1453.
The cancellation of his show is as puzzling as Andy Rooney dancing on the deck of the queen elizabeth II while listening to Barney and Friends sing a Pavarotti rendition of Love Shack, babe.
They might have thought of a better tagline than, "From the producers of The Chevy Chase Show."
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