Up Late With Alec Baldwin Calls It a Night

Show's disciplinary hiatus becomes permanent

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Up Late With Alec Baldwin has been canceled, Baldwin's publicist Matthew Hiltzik and the network, MSNBC, said on Wednesday. The show's run on the NBCU news cabler was brief but undignified: Baldwin was caught on camera by a papparazzo attacking the photog with an apparent anti-gay slur (Baldwin contends he said "fathead," which seemed unlikely to GLAAD) after just a few weeks on the air. The show premiered on Oct. 11; Baldwin was suspended Nov.

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