“Lou Dobbs Tonight” was canceled after a decade

Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” whose host has touted unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, has been canceled. Fox News said in a statement Friday that the move was part of routine programming changes it announced in an announcement last fall.

Fox News “regularly considers programming changes and plans have been put in place to launch new formats after the appropriate election, including on Fox Business – this is part of those planned changes,” the company said.

Whether the cancellation ends Dobbs’ career with Fox News has not been addressed, and the company has no further comment. The former CNN host started his show on Fox in March 2011.

The statement appeared to put off the end of the broadcast of a multibillion-dollar libel lawsuit filed against Fox and three of its hosts, including Dobbs, by election technology company Smartmatic. In an earlier statement, Fox News said it would “vigorously defend itself against this baseless trial in court.”

The replacement for “Lou Dobbs Tonight” will be announced shortly, Fox News said. The show last aired on Friday, with a guest host for Dobbs, who did not have an immediate statement.

An interim show, “Fox Business Tonight,” will air starting at 5 p.m. Eastern Monday with rotating hosts Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman and will repeat at 7 p.m. ET.