Exclusive: MSNBC Axes Maury & Connie

MSNBC’s “Weekends with Maury & Connie” is being cancelled, TVNewser has learned. The program, hosted by Maury Povich and Connie Chung, will end its run next week. The husband and wife team taped their second-to-last show on Friday.

“Weekends” launched almost exactly six months ago, on January 7, 2006. It launched to quite a bit of fanfare, and it aired four times a weekend (twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday) but it never seemed to find an audience. There’s no word on whether Maury, Connie, or EP Lizz Winstead will have a future role at MSNBC…

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