Okay, show of hands from those people who are absolutely, totally surprised that Weekends with Maury and Connie is being canceled by MSNBC. No one, huh? Well, that's because you are a such a smart audience.

In a move that everyone saw coming from several miles away, except perhaps Maury Povich and Connie Chung, the cable news network has canceled the show, which premiered on January 7th of this year to much fanfare. After the premiere, the audience never re-materialized, despite the fact that the show aired twice on both Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, Povich was slapped with a sexual harassment suit from a producer of his syndicated talk show, which probably didn't help his chances of renewal over at MSNBC.

The last Weekends with Maury and Connie will air this upcoming Saturday at 10am. On Sunday, with plenty of free time on his hands, Maury will begin his task of making sure every single man and boy has a DNA test to prove that he is the father of their own child.

I'm so glad that last night Mad TV did a takeoff on Weekends With Maury and Connie (Bobby Lee as Connie - ha!). This has got to be the worst show on television. At least Wife Swap has kids you might feel sorry for.

This show so badly wants to be The Daily Show it's embarrassing (Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead is the executive producer). It wants to take current events and politics and give them an irreverent spin, while also tackling some serious issues with serious interviews. But the result is horrifying. Maury Povich gave up his membership card many years ago, when he started his sleazefest morning show, and Connie Chung continues to be the most laughable, incompetent newsperson since Ted Baxter. I still cringe when I think about her first CNN show a several years back, when she had Jon Stewart on and seriously told him he could be a major network news anchor. Stewart was stunned she was serious, as was all of America.

I also hate how at the beginning of the show, one of them actually says "Welcome To Weekends With Maury and Connie," 10 seconds after the announcer has already mentioned the title twice. Couldn't they just say "welcome to the show," instead of referring to themselves like that?

This is a show that could actually work - maybe even with a husband and wife team - but they have to get rid of Povich and Chung and retool it.