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'Futurama' Gets Canceled Again

by | April 22nd, 2013

Comedy Central has canceled Futurama, making it the second time the long-running animated series has been cut off by its network. EW reports that the second half of the show's seventh season, which debuts June 19th, will be its last. Futurama has seen its ratings decline since premiering on Comedy Central in 2010. The show ran on Fox from 1999 until the network canceled it in 2003. Creator Matt Groening and executive producer David X. Cohen say the news doesn't come as a shock as they thought the show was done for good three previous times. Cohen quipped, "As I said three times before, this is definitely the [...]

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Fox Officially Cancels 'Ben and Kate'

by | January 28th, 2013

The Fox network pulled its critically-acclaimed but underwatched comedy Ben and Kate from the air last week, but now word has come in that the network has officially canceled the show. Fox has not said when the final two episodes will air. It's a huge bummer for fans of one of the year's best new shows, but Ben and Kate will now join the esteemed company of critically-acclaimed comedies like Arrested Development, Undeclared, and The Ben Stiller Show that Fox canceled to soon and will hopefully find a second life on DVD.

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'Next Caller' Creator Stephen Falk Writes Good About His Mistreated NBC Sitcom

by | November 19th, 2012

Stephen Falk, the creator / showrunner / executive producer of NBC's canceled midseason sitcom Next Caller, wrote a long, thoughtful piece on his Tumblr about the experience of working has ass off on the show for a year, only to have NBC pull the plug before even giving it the chance to air. It's a revealing look into the frustrations of working in network television and a reminder of how much hard work goes into every single show you see on TV (and some that never even make it to the screen). Here's a taste:

"For if you work hard enough, someday you too may work on your [...]

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NBC Cancels Dane Cook Show Before It’s Too Late

by | October 15th, 2012

In what’s been a season full of unorthodox decisions by NBC, the Peacock Network’s latest maverick move is canceling one of its new comedies before it even airs. In May, NBC ordered six episodes of a Dane Cook sitcom called Next Caller, in which the polarizing standup played a brash, misogynist radio DJ forced to co-host his show with, get this: a female feminist. Now, Deadline reports the network is canceling the show after only four episodes have been filmed (none of which will air), due to being unhappy with the series’ creative direction. Yes, NBC expected a Dane Cook sitcom to have a “creative direction.” [...]

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It's Official: NBC Cancels 'BFFs,' 'Bent' and 'Are You There Chelsea?'

by | May 11th, 2012

Amongst all the great news in TV comedy renewal land comes this unsurprising but still sad news (at least in terms of BFFs): Are You There Chelsea?, Best Friends Forever and Bent are officially not coming back to the peacock. RIP, friends.

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'The Cleveland Show' Has Been Canceled

by | April 17th, 2013

After four seasons on the air, Fox has canceled The Cleveland Show, according to animation site Cartoon Brew. Since premiering to strong ratings in the fall of 2009, the Family Guy spin-off has seen its viewership gradually decrease over the last four years (just like TV in general has) and ratings prognosticators have been expecting the cancellation. By the time the current season wraps up, Cleveland Show will have aired 88 episodes, which is an impressive run for a series these days and enough to get it into syndication, with reruns set to debut on TBS and Adult Swim this fall. Co-creator Seth MacFarlane still has [...]

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James Van Der Beek Says 'Don't Trust the B' Has "Basically Been Canceled"

by | January 22nd, 2013

ABC's second-year sitcom Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 has been in trouble ever since the network put it up in a late October premiere on Tuesday nights last fall, paired with Happy Endings up against stiff competition from NBC and Fox's comedy blocks. Now, one of the show's stars, James Van Der Beek says it's pretty much canceled. Van Der Beek wrote on Twitter, "Sad to say ABC has pulled #Apt23 and will not be airing the 8 remaining episodes any time soon. Translation: we've basically been cancelled." ABC will back-to-back new episodes of Happy Endings in Don't Trust the B's slot until handing the hour over to Dancing with [...]

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CBS Pulls the Plug on 'Partners'

by | November 16th, 2012

Deadline reports that CBS is canceling its new Monday night sitcom Partners. The low-rated series, starring David Krumholtz, Michael Urie, Sophia Bush, and Brandon Routh, follows a pair architecture partners/best friends – one gay, one straight – and their significant others. In addition to not faring well in the Nielsen ratings, Partners, CBS's only new fall comedy, also scored low with critics. Deadline suspects that Partners' timeslot will be filled with CBS's old standby Rules of Engagement before the new comedy Friend Me makes its debut in the slot at midseason. Partners is the third sitcom cancellation of the season after NBC pulled both Animal Practice and the unaired Dane Cook vehicle [...]

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IFC Cancels Kurt Braunohler's Game Show 'Bunk'

by | September 26th, 2012

The IFC Network has made it a habit of rescuing critically-acclaimed but unjustly-cancelled comedies like Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, and The Ben Stiller Show by airing their reruns years after the fact, but it seems like IFC has now orphaned a one-season comedy of its own, the Kurt Braunohler-hosted game show spoof, Bunk. During an appearance on The Best Show on WFMU last night, Braunohler announced that the cable network has cancelled Bunk, which aired a 10-episode first (and now only) season this summer. On the bright side, if the show develops a cult following of passionate and devoted fans, IFC will probably start airing Bunk reruns for nostalgia's sake 10 [...]

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We No Longer Live in the Times of The Life & Times of Tim

by | April 23rd, 2012

Variety is reporting that, after three seasons, HBO has decided to cancel The Life & Times of Tim. Created, written, directed, and starring Steve Dildarian, L&TOT focused on the awkward and uncomfortable life of a mid-20s New Yorker named Tim. It was like Girls in a way but animated and about a man named Tim.

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HBO Cancels 'Enlightened'; Somebody Start a Kickstarter Right Now

by | March 20th, 2013

After two excellent but low-rated seasons, HBO has canceled its critically-acclaimed comedy-drama Enlightened. HBO released a statement yesterday saying, "It was a very difficult decision. We’ve decided not to continue Enlightened for a third season. We’re proud of the show, and we look forward to working with Mike White and Laura Dern in the future."

The series, created by White and starring Dern as a woman who returns from rehab and attempts to do some good in the world by taking down the evil company that employs her, debuted in 2011 and earned Dern a Golden Globe for her performance. It was considered a surprise when HBO renewed Enlightened for a [...]

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MTV Cancels 'The Inbetweeners'

by | November 29th, 2012

MTV has canceled its new sitcom The Inbetweeners, an adaptation of the hit UK show of the same name, after one season, Deadline reported yesterday. Inbetweeners starred Bubba Lewis, Zack Pearlman, Joey Pollari, and Mark L. Young as a quartet of guys stuck in the gray area in the high school social strata in between being cool and nerdy. The show, adapted for the US by ex-Arrested Development writer Brad Copeland, ran 12 episodes in its first season, but MTV has opted not to renew it due to low ratings. Critics praised The Inbetweeners, but it didn't receive a huge marketing push from the network and a regime change [...]

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NBC Cancels Monkey Sitcom

by | October 18th, 2012

In the first comedy cancellation of the fall TV season, NBC has axed Animal Practice, its ratings-challenged veterinary sitcom, putting a cast and crew of hundreds of people and one monkey out of work. Animal Practice scored a big audience in a post-Olympics debut in August but saw its ratings slide each time it aired not after the Olympics. This is the first new fall sitcom to be cancelled and the second overall sitcom to get cut this season after NBC pulled the plug on an unaired Dane Cook midseason replacement earlier this week.  NBC is handing Animal Practice's Wednesday 8pm timeslot over to displaced sitcom Whitney, which was put on [...]

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ABC Doesn't Trust Fred Willard's 'Trust Us with Your Life'

by | July 31st, 2012

It hasn't be a great July for Freddie Wills. ABC is taking Trust Us with Your Life off the air and replacing it with reruns of that hilarious comedy about people falling on their respective faces, Wipeout. Though ABC is owned by the prudish Mickey Mouse, it seems like this decision was mostly a ratings call. Trust Us was not doing too well. It seems like people either didn't like the idea of short-form improv games being incorporated into premise based long-form or, more likely, they didn't like all that long-form improv narrative getting in the way of Wayne Brady being a real silly head.

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