Charles Barkley Calls CNN Bosses 'Boneheads' For His Show With Gayle King Failing

Charles Barkley has a problem with his bosses. 

Just days after ripping TNT executives and calling them "clowns" for not coming to an agreement with the NBA to continue their basketball coverage, which includes Charles Barkley's participation on the hit ‘Inside The NBA’ program, the NBA Hall of Famer is now criticizing his CNN bosses for dropping the ball as well.

The issue revolves around a New York Post report that CNN has canceled Barkley's ‘King Charles’ weekly Wednesday program that he did alongside Gayle King. According to Barkley, he found out the show was being canned after reading it in the Post's article.

‘CNN ARE BONEHEADS’

"You know the type of boneheads I work with? First of all, [my show] wasn’t canceled. I talk to Gayle all the time. They haven’t told us we were canceled. That’s how stupid these people are [at CNN]," Barkley said during an appearance on the Mike Missanelli Podcast on Thursday. 

Barkley claims that the program was always expected to be a short run because he was "only going to do the show for a short period, before going back to his NBA coverage." 

Whether that's true or not is up for debate, but regardless - Charles is furious at CNN for dropping the ball and not even telling him that the show wasn't happening anymore.

"If we were canceled, CNN should have at least given us the decency to let us know we were done," a heated Barkley continued before repeating that "the show was not canceled."

HOT SEAT: CNN

"That just shows you how full of sh** the whole thing is with CNN. We had new people take over and we were in disarray. Like, yesterday they put an article out that CNN had its worst ratings ever since 1992."

Barkley and Gayle King's "King Charles" program was a mess from the start. Putting Charles Barkley with Gayle King of all people? Really? It's wild that some exec making seven figures thought that was a good idea. But then again, CNN. 

The Post reports that CNN pulled the show at least a month earlier than they had expected because of its lackluster ratings. Over its 14 episodes, King Charles only averaged 459,000 total viewers. Its competition - including Fox News' Gutfeld, regularly brought in 2+ million each night. At times, King Charles was losing the ratings battle against reruns of Friends and old South Park episodes.

Needless to say, it's been quite a week for Barkley.

But no need to shed a tear for him - there's no doubt that he is in high demand now that the Inside the NBA program is coming to an end. Already there are reports that Amazon or ESPN may reach out to Barkley, Shaq and others to bring a version of it to their networks.

And honestly, who wants to be a part of CNN anyway?