Behar Is Leaving HLN News Channel

The HLN cable channel is ending the comedian Joy Behar’s two-year-old talk show, NYTimes.com reports.

Behar will remain a co-host on “The View,” which she's been on since 1997.

"She was hired by HLN in 2009 as part of an expansion of its prime-time lineup, and her talk show, 'The Joy Behar Show,' helped to propel the channel’s ratings. But it became clear earlier this year that she was not entirely comfortable with the channel’s shift toward crime and tabloid news, in particular the Casey Anthony murder trial. Her show was taken off the channel’s schedule for a full week as that trial neared its end.

“'The network doesn’t fit with her enthusiasms and interests,' an HLN executive said on condition of anonymity on Thursday.