Actor Stanley Tucci’s Emmy Award-winning CNN show “Searching for Italy” is looking for a new home.
The star of blockbusters equivalent to The Big Night and The Devil Wears Prada has confirmed that his food and travel-centric show has been hit by CNN’s cost cuts this month.
“Unfortunately, CNN has canceled all of its original shows, so hopefully we’ll find yourself on a different streamer network, we do not know,” Tucci revealed to Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.”
The series aired on CNN on Sundays at 9 p.m. and was one in every of the few eye-catchers on the down-rated network, attracting over 1.5 million viewers when it debuted in 2021.
Tucci recorded 14 episodes over two seasons – feasting on regional cuisine from the heel of the country to the mountains up north – and won Emmys for Best Hosted Nonfiction Series in each years.
“I liked it a lot,” Fallon fawned. “I would like to get into the whole lot – all the details, but I enjoyed the whole lot.”
“When the show got here out… it was during the pandemic. During the lockdown. So we had a captive audience,” Tucci replied. “People were eager to get out they usually were sort of living vicariously through us.”
Fallon pressured the star to proceed the series.
“I even have plans to do season 3. So keep looking for more,” said Tucci.
“So “Searching for Italy” is looking for a new network,” Fallon joked.
“Not so appetizing,” Tucci retorted.
Along with the original programming, CNN also cut a whole lot of cable news network jobs and gutted sister network HLN.
