So why didnвЂ™t Any Given Wednesday work? Maybe people didnвЂ™t expect a sports talk show from HBO. Soon thereafter, HBO decided the show couldnвЂ™t be salvaged and canceled it. However, the ratings steadily declined from there, bottoming out in late October. The numbers improved the following week, perhaps because viewers wanted to see if the show was as bad as most critics were saying or they were hoping for another celebrity sports tirade. AGS drew an 0.12 rating, finishing 78th among original cable television programming that night in the 10 p.m. Barkley and Simmons also discussed the Hall of FamerвЂ™s top five NBA players of all time.Дespite two star guests, viewers werenвЂ™t curious enough about Simmons hosting a talk show to check it out. Especially right after the NBA Finals, with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers defeating the Golden State Warriors in a seven-game series. The second season of the show was scheduled for 37 episodes, presumably running throughout the year with periodic breaks as the premium networkвЂ™s Real Time with Bill Maher and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver do.Д¬harles Barkley was also a guest on the premiere episode, a choice with which no show can go wrong. Premiering on June 23, 2016, the program was canceled after one season of 17 episodes (fewer than the 20 that were originally planned).ДЄs Simmons said in his podcast interview with Feinberg, Any Given Wednesday was originally supposed to anchor a three-year, $20 million partnership with HBO. This particular week is the sixth anniversary of Any Given Wednesday, SimmonsвЂ™s HBO show that became a curious failure in his career. (KafkaвЂ™s interview includes a funny - or maybe not funny, depending on how you view Simmons - moment when heвЂ™s corrected on the amount of the sale, which is initially mentioned as $200 million.)Д«ut on the way to that enormous success, there were also some notable missteps. He sat down for podcast interviews with both RecodeвЂ™s Peter Kafka and The Hollywood ReporterвЂ™s Scott Feinberg to look back at a very eventful six-year span, which includes selling The Ringer to Spotify for $250 million. During the past week, Bill Simmons has been taking a well-deserved victory lap for the 1000th episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast and the success of The Ringer six years after its launch.

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