Shouldn’t be too tough to explain. “We paid a lot of $ $ to bring John Stewart out of retirement, but nobody watched the first two seasons, so we didn’t make a third.”
I’m just saying, this wasn’t The Daily Show, either in quality or in viewership. It would be a much cleaner case to make if the show was at all popular, but there were like 12 people still watching. A 3rd season would have been a real stretch.
It's one of the few things on Apple TV I actually watched... and as a talk/news show it's not like it was terribly expensive. We know exactly WHY they cancelled it, and they deserve any vitriol directed at them, not that it will matter.