HBO Cancels Sportswriter Bill Simmons’s ‘Any Given Wednesday’
- Simmons joined HBO last year after running Grantland at ESPN
- HBO to continue to work with Simmons on new projects
Bill Simmons
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HBO canceled sportswriter Bill Simmons’s “Any Given Wednesday” less than five months after its debut because the weekly talk show failed to pull in enough viewers.
The show, hosted by Simmons, blended sports and pop culture, with high-profile guests like actor Ben Affleck, rapper Vince Staples and basketball star Kevin Durant. Simmons indirectly acknowledged struggles in recent weeks, often remarking on his podcast about how no one would watch his show live because of competition from major sporting events like the World Series.