It's a wrap for Dr. Drew Pinsky's show on HLN. 
 
 CNN executive vice president Ken Jautz announced Thursday that "Dr. Drew and I have mutually agreed to air the final episode of his show on September 22." 
 
 "Dr. Drew and his team have delivered more than five years of creative shows and I want to thank them for their hard work and distinctive programming," Jautz said in a statement. "Their audience-driven shows, in particular, were innovative and memorable TV. And Dr. Drew has been an authoritative voice on addiction and on many other topical issues facing America today." 
 
 It's the latest in changes at HLN, which is CNN's sister network. 
 
 In June the network announced that Nancy Grace would be ending her very popular show and leaving after a dozen years as one of HLN's biggest stars. 
 
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 "Dr. Drew," which according to its site "explores the behavior behind the headlines and addresses the fundamental issue, 'why we do what we do,'" never reached the heights of Grace's show. 
 
 Pinsky is well known for some of his other work including VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" and the syndicated radio show "Loveline." 
 
 "It has been a privilege working at HLN," Pinsky said in a statement of his own. "My executive producer Burt Dubrow and our outstanding staff and contributors were consistently exceptional. I am very excited to stay within the CNN Worldwide family as a contributor." 
 
 HLN will air reruns of "Forensic Files" and episodes of CNN originals in the "Dr. Drew" 7 p.m. ET time slot. ||||| Drew Pinsky arrives at the MTV Movie Awards in Burbank, Calif., on April 9. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) 
 
 Drew Pinsky’s six-year-old HLN show, “Dr. Drew On Call,” has been canceled by CNN, effective Sept. 22. 
 
 In a statement, CNN executive vice president Ken Jautz said he and Pinsky “have mutually agreed to air the final episode of his show on September 22” but gave no specific reason for the cancellation. 
 
 CNN Money, in its reporting of the announcement, connected it to a broader shakeup at HLN, including the end of Nancy Grace’s flamboyant show devoted to criminal court cases. 
 
 But the decision came eight days after Pinsky’s comments on a radio show on Aug. 17 questioning the health and medical care of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president. After looking at bits and pieces of Clinton’s health-care records she made public in 2015, he said he was “gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care.” 
 
 His comments came as the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, along with its surrogates and supporters, including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Fox News host Sean Hannity, have attempted to portray Clinton as lacking “the mental and physical stamina” demanded by the job, as Trump has put it. 
 
 Twice this week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went after Democrat Hillary Clinton for her physical health. Here's how that claim checks out. (Sarah Parnass,Julio Negron,Osman Malik/The Washington Post) 
 
 Pinsky’s views, which he said were shared by another physician with whom he had consulted, aired on KABC’s “McIntyre in the Morning.” 
 
 The episode has been removed from the station’s website, but a transcript was published by the conservative Washington Free Beacon: 
 
 Based on the information that she has provided and her doctors have provided, we were gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care …. What is going on with her health care? It’s bizarre. I got to tell you. Maybe they have reasons, but at a distance, it looks bizarre. There ought to be some sort of standard for people that are going to lead the country or are going to making these important decisions. Again, Hillary may be fine with all of this. I mean, it’s dangerous and it’s concerning, but you can see—and by the way, there were two other things that gravely concerned us. When she hit her head, she had to wear these prism glasses when she came out. …. That is brain damage, and it’s affecting her balance. Now clearly, it hasn’t affected her cognition, but tell us a little more about that. That’s profound. And then number two, when they screened her for heart disease, again, they did an old-fashioned screen. It just seems like she’s getting care from somebody that she met in Arkansas when she was a kid, and you’ve got to wonder. You’ve got to wonder. It’s not so much that her health is a grave concern. It’s that the care she’s getting could make it a concern. 
 
 He based his comments on a July 2015 letter from Lisa Bardack, an internist in Mount Kisco, N.Y., who has served as Clinton’s doctor for 15 years. The eight-paragraph letter described Clinton as “a healthy 67-year-old female whose current medical conditions include hypothyroidism and seasonal pollen allergies.” 
 
 Twice this week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went after Democrat Hillary Clinton for her physical health. Here's how that claim checks out. (Sarah Parnass,Julio Negron,Osman Malik/The Washington Post) 
 
 As The Post’s Fact Checker noted, the letter disclosed that Clinton suffered from deep vein thrombosis in 1998 and in 2009, an elbow fracture in 2009 and, most notably, a concussion in 2012. (The elbow injury and concussion, when she was secretary of state, were extensively reported at the time.) The letter says her concussion symptoms, including double vision, were resolved within two months. The letter concluded that Clinton “is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States.” 
 
 It was Pinksy’s second foray into the subject of Hillary Clinton’s health, and the first one ended badly, as well. In January, he made reference on-air to Clinton’s late return to the stage in a debate and cited a Breitbart News story, attributed to a “strong source,” suggesting that it was due to “a flare-up of problems from” a “brain injury.” In fact, she had only visited the restroom. 
 
 He apologized after the broadcast. “Earlier tonight, I mistakenly raised an anonymously sourced report about Hillary Clinton’s health. By doing so, I violated HLN and CNN’s editorial standards and I was wrong to have mentioned the unsubstantiated report. I regret the error and will make sure, in the future, to apply the rigorous editorial standards we have in place here. I apologize to our viewers and Secretary Clinton for falling short tonight.” 
 
 “Dr. Drew and his team have delivered more than five years of creative shows and I want to thank them for their hard work and distinctive programming,” Jautz said in a statement Thursday. “Their audience-driven shows, in particular, were innovative and memorable TV. And Dr. Drew has been an authoritative voice on addiction and on many other topical issues facing America today.” 
 
 Drew’s website describes him as “America’s most trusted physician” who “explores the behavior behind the headlines and addresses the fundamental issue, ‘why we do what we do.’ ” Until earlier this year, Pinsky also hosted a nationally syndicated radio show called Loveline. ||||| CNN is reformatting “Parker Spitzer” as an ensemble program with Eliot Spitzer — and without Kathleen Parker, who has been his co-host for the last four months. 
 
 Effective Monday, the program will be renamed “In the Arena.” Several people will join Mr. Spitzer in the arena at 8 p.m. each night, including E. D. Hill and Will Cain and “others within and outside the CNN family,” the executive in charge of CNN/U.S., Ken Jautz, said in a memorandum on Friday afternoon. 
 
 Ms. Hill, a former Fox News anchor, and Mr. Cain, a former columnist for National Review, are both conservative. Ms. Hill was the subject of attention in mid-2008 when she asked on Fox if a gesture by Senator Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, had been a “terrorist fist jab.” 
 
 The new plan for the 8 p.m. hour on CNN, a unit of Time Warner, reflects the channel’s continued struggle to increase its audience share. Almost since the day it started in October, “Parker Spitzer” was mired by backstage clashes and disagreements, and was never able to generate ratings traction. 
 
 Ms. Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, will continue to appear on CNN occasionally, a CNN spokeswoman said. Ms. Parker did not respond to a request for comment on Friday, but in a statement provided by CNN, she said, “I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings.” 
 
 Last fall, she reduced her column schedule to once a week from twice a week. She continued in the statement, “While I am extremely proud of the show we created, and the subject matter and level of discourse ‘Parker Spitzer’ promoted every night, it was a difficult decision to scale back my column a few months ago and, with the show going in a new direction, it is a good time to move on.” 
 
 The new direction will try to feature many points of view, Mr. Jautz indicated in his message on Friday. Through a spokeswoman, he declined an interview request. 
 
 Privately, CNN executives emphasized that they were not turning the 8 p.m. hour into “The Eliot Spitzer Show.” But it is almost certain that the reformatted and renamed program will further elevate Mr. Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned in 2008 after being caught up in a prostitution scandal. 
 
 Mr. Spitzer said in a statement that he wished Ms. Parker “all the best in continuing on with her spectacular career,” and added, “It has been a joy working with her as a teammate.” In her statement, she did not mention him. 
 
 “Parker Spitzer” was conceived last fall by a CNN executive, Jonathan Klein, who was dismissed two weeks before it had its premiere. The show was a hot topic in media and political circles because it represented both Mr. Spitzer’s return to the public spotlight and CNN’s attempt to bring liberal and conservative political talk to prime time. 
 
 Almost immediately, television critics noted that Mr. Spitzer seemed to overpower Ms. Parker on the show, and some recommended that he have the time slot to himself. Ms. Parker acknowledged some tension with Mr. Spitzer in December, and the animus between them never faded, according to staff members at CNN; if anything, it intensified as media reports about the show’s problems piled up. The staff members, who insisted on anonymity because they had not been authorized to speak, said the reformatting had been under consideration for several weeks. 
 
 Both the Fox News Channel and MSNBC tower over CNN at 8 p.m., as they have for several years. In January, “Parker Spitzer” averaged only 125,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, the demographic favored by cable news advertisers. In February to date, the hour has averaged 189,000 viewers in that demographic, a rise that has been attributed to the channel’s coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East. 
 
 CNN’s new name for the hour, “In the Arena,” expands on the name of a debate segment within “Parker Spitzer.” The notion of an ensemble talk show immediately conjured up comparisons to “Crossfire,” the long-running debate show that CNN canceled in 2005, and “The View,” the popular daytime talk show on ABC. 
 
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– Dr. Drew Pinsky's run at HLN has come to a close. The network says in a statement that CNN and Pinsky "have mutually agreed" that after six years, Dr. Drew On Call will air its final episode Sept. 22. No reason was given for the move, but when CNNMoney reported it, it painted the cancellation as just "the latest in changes at HLN," which also recently announced the cancellation of Nancy Grace's show after 12 years. Pinsky will stay "within the CNN Worldwide family" as a contributor, he said in a statement, per the AP. The Washington Post and other media note the move came a week after Pinsky went on a radio show and said he's "gravely concerned" about Hillary Clinton's health, as reported by the Washington Free Beacon at the time. There's no indication the timing was anything other than coincidence.