Busy Philipps Slams Network Over 'Busy Tonight' Cancellation Alongside Tearful Selfies

Busy Philipps' late night talk show, Busy Tonight, was canceled by E! this year, and now she is [...]

Busy Philipps' late night talk show, Busy Tonight, was canceled by E! this year, and now she is slamming the network over it, alongside some tearful selfies shared to her social media. This week, Phillips took to Instagram and shared a screenshot of her texts with an E! executive, wherein they had texted about meeting up to talk. Shortly after, she found out about the series cancellation and messaged the exec, "Cool last text to me," to which they replied, "[I] Know you're out of town…I'm available to talk whenever you would like." Philipps replied swiftly, "Nah dude. You're bad at your job. Do better."

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The post also featured the aforementioned crying selfies, as well as a letter that her daughter wrote to the network, criticizing them for cancelling her mother's show.

In the post caption, Philipps wrote, "Final round of #almostgrams 2019! The Busy Tonight was cancelled round!! On APRIL 5, 2019! I flew to Dallas to shoot commercials over the weekend for Michael's. When my plane took off, the song that came on shuffle was my favorite Deerhunter song He Would Have Laughed. I felt like it was a good sign.

"When I landed, my manager texted me to call her. Which I did," she continued. "And she told me E! would not renew my show after the order was finished in a month. It was effectively cancelled. I was blindsided, especially since the last text I had from the head of E! (who's now gone) was about marketing for busy tonight that he was excited to tell me about.

"Anyway. I did what anyone would do. I sat in the lobby of the hotel in Dallas and ordered three tequilas and called Marc, Caissie, Eric, Tina, Caissie again and I cried. I waited for a call or email from someone at E, which never came so I sent a text to the head of the network that truly makes me lol to this day(slide 3)," Philipps added.

"Then I took some selfies(first 2 pics), got a text from Marc reminding me about the Deerhunter song(slide 4), made a music video in my hotel room to it(which I posted to my stories at the time), then I went and got a tattoo on my ankle; the illustration from my book from the chapter where I got super f—ed over by some dudes in this business(slide 5), THEN before I went to bed, I saw it was a new moon and what that moon meant(slide6)," Philips also wrote. "And. Anyway. It all started to become clear and I knew things were going to be better than fine.

"Right before the show was finished, I found a letter my daughter wrote to E! and I feel like as this year is almost over, the decade is closing, it's the right time to post the letter(slides 7,8,9). And all the rest of it from April 5. Because here's the thing. The moon was right, the song WAS a good sign, my girl knows something about her mom- I work hard AF and love to prove people wrong and finally, the men will always try to f— you over so f— em and figure out something else. Which is exactly what Caissie and I have been doing," the post concluded. "And next year; in 2020 we will finally be able to share it. So Happy New Year everyone!!Goodnight you guys! I love you SO much!!!"

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