NEW YORK (AP) — With Ariana Grande hitting it big in the music world this summer, her time as a star on children’s television is about to become history. Nickelodeon […]
Executive producer Harvey Levin, of TMZ fame, told family members on Tuesday’s episode that not enough people were watching to keep the show going. It debuted June 3 and was supposed to run for three months.
Why The Arsenio Hall Show Was Canceled
Arsenio Hall was supposed to spend the week of June 2 in New York City, touting the upcoming second season of his late-night talk show on The View, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show and Late Show with David Letterman. Instead, he was in Los Angeles, packing up boxes, bidding adieu to his staff and sharing via social media his disappointment over his show’s cancellation. What happened?
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The rookie latenight talk show from CTD and Tribune had struggled in the ratings since debuting strong last September. Its weakening performance had led to time slot downgrades
Class Dismissed: NBC Cancels ‘Community’
NBC just placed the biggest possible roadblock on the road to six seasons and a movie: The network has canceled Community after five seasons.
ABC Cancels ‘Trophy Wife,’ ‘Mixology’
Marcia Gay Harden announced that the critical darling family comedy would not return for a second season, while Mixology co-star Frankie Shaw confirmed her high-concept entry is also canceled.
Fox Cancels Three Comedies
Fox cleaned the comedy deck today, pulling the plug on freshman series Dads, Enlisted and Surviving Jack and passing on half-hour pilots Fatrick, Dead Boss and No Place Like Home.
J.J. Abrams may have hit a home run with his Star Wars announcement Tuesday morning but the multi-hyphenate’s new Fox drama Almost Human wasn’t quite as lucky. Fringe‘s J.H. Wyman executive produced and created the show, which starred Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as a cop and a human-like android partner in 2048.
There will be no second season for conflict talk show The Test from CBS Television Distribution and Tribune Broadcasting. And Tribune’s Serch with MC Serch, which it tested on some of its stations earlier this year, will not move forward.
The syndicated show hosted by Trisha Goddard will not be back in the fall for a third season.
Fox’s low-rated midseason series Rake will end its run sooner than expected and on a different night. The drama, which originally aired on Thursday, was bumped to Fridays where it was to air its final two episodes this and next week. Instead, Rake‘s last two episodes will run back-to-back this Saturday, April 5.
It’s the end of the road for Fox’s quirky family comedy Raising Hope, with the upcoming fourth season finale serving as series finale. The blue-collar will bow out with an hourlong farewell on Friday, April 4, featuring back-to-back episodes from 9 to 10 p.m.
The current, fourth season will be the last for the syndicated lifestyle show. Raycom is now shopping two new half-hour strips: Fix It & Finish It and Flip My Food with Chef Jeff.
There will be no second season for Bethenny, Bethenny Frankel’s syndicated daytime talk show executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres. So far this season, Bethenny is averaging a 0.7 rating among women 25-54, tied at No. 11 among talk shows with this season’s other rookie, Sony Pictures Television’s Queen Latifah, NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution’s Jerry Springer and CBS Television Distribution’s The Doctors.
On the heels of ITV’s announcement that The X Factor creator Simon Cowell will be returning to the UK edition as a judge this year, Fox has announced that the U.S. version of the singing competition will not be renewed for a fourth season.
Michael J. Fox’s return to the small screen is over. NBC has pulled The Michael J. Fox Show from its lineup. Hollywood Game Night will air in place of the series, which also starred Breaking Bad alum Betsy Brandt, in the network’s Thursday-night slate.
It’s the end of the road for NBC comedy series Sean Saves the World, which Tuesday stopped production on its freshman order.
ABC has canceled its low-rated miniseries The Assets after two very poor airings. It will be replaced by Shark Tank repeats in the Thursday 10 p.m. hour.
NBC says it’s canceling two freshman shows, Ironside and Welcome to the Family.
With its Monday lineup seeing a steep drop after How I Met Your Mother, CBS schedules Mike & Molly for a November return to replace the low-rated freshman after two episodes. In the meantime, 2 Broke Girls will move into Men‘s 8:30 p.m. slot.
ABC’s ‘Lucky 7′ Canceled After 2 Episodes
We have the first casualty of the 2013-14 broadcast season. ABC has pulled freshman drama Lucky 7 after two episodes, the second one posting that unlucky 0.7 adults 18-49 rating on Tuesday. Starting next week, ABC will air repeats of red-hot Scandal — which hit series highs in its third-season premiere last night — in Lucky 7‘s Tuesday 10 p.m. slot until settling on a permanent replacement.
The summer drama starring Rachel Griffiths fizzled on Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
