My personal guess, based on nothing, is that the network sees COVID as the perfect cover to get rid of the boys as they are starting to really age and replace them on New Years with something that would attract younger audiences.

So they’re willing to take a ratings hit now so that they don’t have a problem in 5-10 years.

We’ll see how that works out, but I am certain we’ve seen our last No Laughing Batsu special.