First Oprah, now Bill Moyers

By GottaLaff

Oprah gave us two years' notice. Bill? Only a few months, and I'm way more upset about this one:

Veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers has announced that he will be ending his Friday night public affairs show “Bill Moyers Journal” as well as “Now on PBS” on April 30, 2010:

Mr. Moyers said he had been planning for some time to retire the program on Dec. 25, but was asked by PBS to raise the funds to continue through April, which he did.

“I am 75 years old,” he said of the decision to end the series, which began in April 2007. The program has recently been having a “good run of it,” he added in a telephone interview on Friday, “so I feel it’s time.” He said he was not quitting television work, although he has no new projects planned.

He's one of the most engaging, well-informed journalists on the Tee Vee Machine. Maybe he'll do specials? Please?