Jesse Grant
The decision to end the show comes on the heels of the announcement that the live show will wrap its six-year run.
The Meltdown With Jonah and Kumail is coming to an end.
The upcoming third season of the Comedy Central series will be its last, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The news comes on the heels of Thursday's announcement by hosts Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani that the live stand-up show on which the series is based will end its run next month. In addition to a lengthy post on The Meltdown's website, Nanjiani opened up about the decision to pull the plug in a series of tweets Thursday.
The final live show, which takes place Wednesdays at the Nerdist Showroom at Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics, is set for Oct. 19. The third and final season of the Comedy Central series will kick off on Sept. 27 and wrap on Nov. 16. Ray and Nanjiani exec produce the series with Emily Gordon, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Debbie Liebling, Mike Rosenstein and Jonas Larsen.
“As the live show is coming to an end, we’ve mutually agreed to make this the third and final season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail," Comedy Central said in a statement. "We look forward to working with Jonah, Kumail and Emily on future projects.”
Over the years, The Meltdown welcomed an impressive lineup of celebrity guests including Marc Maron, Nick Offerman, T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch, Jenny Slate, Paul Scheer, Chelsea Peretti, Jim Gaffigan, Adam Pally, Hannibal Buress, Fred Armisen and John Mulaney, among others. The live show was famed for welcoming stand-up comics in the fly, most notably Robin Williams and Louis C.K.
The weekly live show began in 2010, before Comedy Central picked it up to series in 2013. The series ran for three eight-episode seasons, most recently earning a renewal in Nov. 2015. Since the series' debut, Nanjiani has gone onto fame as one of the stars of the acclaimed HBO comedy Silicon Valley. His other credits include The X-Files revival and the upcoming film Fist Fight. Ray, whose credits include The Soup and Maron, is next to set to host Netflix's Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival.
For Comedy Central, the end of The Meltdown follows the cancellation of The Nightly Show in September, as well as the end of Key & Peele-- which won an Emmy Sunday -- in 2015. Amy Schumer also recently announced that, although her sketch series Inside Amy Schumer has been renewed for a fifth season, it will not be back for the "forseeable future." Earlier this week, the Viacom-owned cable network ordered Moshe Kasher's Problematic to series.
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