Bloomberg TV is scrapping its plan to launch a streaming show based around New York University professor Scott Galloway, reports Lachlan Cartwright and Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast.
Cartwright and Tani report, “‘We’ve reached a mutual decision with Scott Galloway not to proceed with our previously announced Bloomberg Quicktake project,’ a Bloomberg Media spokesperson told The Daily Beast. ‘It will not air as planned.’
“The move comes after Galloway shared a strange promotion for the show earlier this month on Twitter and briefly went viral for it. Posing shirtless in a hardhat while holding a pickaxe, the Vox podcaster made a series of somewhat nonsensical jokes about his sex life, at one point touting his erectile dysfunction.
“‘I like to bring construction into my sex life. I’m a big fan of one-night stands. I call it ‘the nut and bolt,’’ he said. ‘Anyway, bitcoin, bitches!'”
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