New TV Show Cancellations

Another week and another crop of shows have bitten the dust.   And now as that Queen song ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ bounces around my head, it will become apparent to most why a couple of these shows got the axe.   It’s always hard to see a bunch of shows go, even if they more than rightly deserved it.   To see something fail that people put time and effort and love into is a sad thing to have to witness.   So let’s get on with it and pay our respects to a few more fallen shows.

1. Hank- There was really no hope for this middling laugh track infested sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer about an executive who has to move his family back to the town he grew up in.   I’m not sad to see sitcoms facing death after death while more cutting edge comedies, with zero laugh tracks to hear from, thrive on and upwards.   Maybe it’s just I’m not a big fan of Grammer but I think his time for leading sitcoms has come and gone.   I found Back to You to be that not that bad but nowhere close to his glory days of Cheers and Frasier.   This show dies as well as his possibilities of ever getting another sitcom.

2. Eastwick- A few more people might care about this show because it at least had a bit more of an interesting concept than Hank did.   Basically inspired by the book and movie “The Witches of Eastwick”, the show followed a group of women living in New England with magical powers.   The show got very mixed reviews and apparently couldn’t attract a decent following even though it had the incredibly hot Rebecca Romijn leading the cast.   Even worse is that the show was so quickly yanked from the schedule that the few fans there were won’t even get a decent wrap up episode. Witches just aren’t as in as vampires right now I guess.

3. Doll House- Now here’s the one I really hate to have to report on.   I love Joss Whedon and really anything he did for TV was very special and inventive and never pandered to formulaic concepts.   Hmm, I wonder why this show got canceled then.   As Firefly before it, Doll House has is now facing the chopping block, but at least it got a better un out of it then that beloved sci-fi opus.   Eliza Dusku will be missed as she ran around in tight out fit after tight out fit and smart, edgy sci-fi takes another hit, which I fear Fringe might not be too far from sharing.   Potentially this show could’ve been saved if it hadn’t been relegated to its Friday death march, but there was probably nothing that really could’ve saved this very liked cult followed show.   It just doesn’t have the appeal of D-list stars dancing and making fools of themselves that apparently is the only thing people want to see right now.   FOX will graciously be airing the rest of the season come the beginning of December so enjoy this gem while it lasts.