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Another one bites the dust: NBC‘s Jimmy Smits vehicle Outlaw is the third casualty of the Fall 2010 season.
The legal drama aired on Fridays, but will burn off its last four episodes on Saturdays. NBC is filling the open Friday night slot with a second hour of Dateline.
ABC gave its fake documentary hour-long, My Generation, a prime spot as Grey’s Anatomy‘s lead-in on Thursday nights, but it wasn’t enough to generate ratings for the fledgling show. Its plug has officially been pulled, making it the second casualty of the 2010 season.
The show fell 39% in its second week on the air, which was deemed too poor to recover from by ABC execs.
Does anybody even remember the days when new shows had one or more entire seasons to find its audience, not to mention its creative footing?
The first casualty of the Fall 2010 season is one that no one expected: the critically-acclaimed Fox drama Lone Star. Only two episodes of the show have aired, and five filmed, but production has ended on the show and Fox has no plans to air the remaining eps at this time. The show, about a con man married to two women, did not meet ratings expectations.
According to THR, other shows in danger of early cancellations include ABC’s The Whole Truth and My Generation, and NBC’s Outlaw. The latest iteration of The Apprentice is also showing abysmal ratings this season, indicating that viewers have finally figured out that it outlived its usefulness years ago.
After conflicting reports that a final fifth season was on-again and then off-again for Heroes, the final word is in. And that word is canceled. Although NBC has left the door open (just a crack) for a made-for-TV movie to give the show a proper wrap up, the network ultimately decided that even a truncated season simply wasn’t worth the investment.
All but the most hardcore of fans gave up on the show after its memorable first season ended with a whimper instead of a bang. Heroes was never able to repeat its Season One success, and struggled with meandering storylines that often ignored rules and events that past episodes established.
HBO has announced that Entourage, the pay-cable network’s longest-running show, will be ending after its eighth and final season. The show is currently filming season seven, and HBO has negotiated with Entourage creator Doug Ellin for a shortened eighth season, which will likely comprise about six episodes.
There’s also talk of a film to follow the series, a la Sex In the City, but nothing is official yet. Meanwhile, HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo tells The Hollywood Reporter that he expects his network to sign Ellin for a brand new show of his own creation in the next few years.