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UPDATED: Fringe got lucky to score an early renewal because no other bubble show got a reprieve at Fox. The network tonight axed all others: the Tim Roth-starring procedural Lie To Me, sophomore drama Human Target and freshmen The Chicago Code, Traffic Light and Breaking In. That is in contrast with last May, when it renewed all three of its bubble dramas, Lie To Me, Human Target and Fringe. While Human Target and Lie To Me had been long shots after soft second- and third-season runs and Chicago Code and Traffic Light‘s fate had been sealed for a while, especially with Chicago Code creator Shawn Ryan moving from 20th TV to Sony, the yanking of Breaking In was very surprising as the comedy launched strong behind American Idol, posting Fox’s highest ratings for live-action comedy series in three years. It has since slipped but was considered a solid contender for renewal as it had shown promise and had done much better than two other freshman live-action Fox comedies, Traffic Light and Running Wilde. Breaking In beat the odds once, when Fox passed on the pilot last season, before getting resurrected with a midseason order. But its luck ran out. And so the Christian Slater curse continues …
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why cancel BREAKING IN, a creative, inventive comedy. so am i only supposed to watch FOX for football? i dont even know if they air football anymore since they dont have a show left to turn to the channel to find out.
shame on peter rice for thinking he knows how to run a tv network. bring back BREAKIGN IN !
send CASH to his house to beam him up
Totally agree. It wwas hilarious! The least the can do is give the fans some closure.
This is awful. breaking in has a great cast all around. every week has gotten better. this is really sad and fox should rethink pulling the plug on this gold.
Even worse is they kept Fringe and all of that reality and animation garbage. Not to mention that they’re wasting another hour on that hack JJ Abrams.
Agreed.
“Breaking In” was too cutesy-unreal-thin in tone and execution, more a sketch than a show. Which is a shame, because it’s failure now makes it that much harder to do something offbeat/unconventional in a TV comedy series.
Soooo awful about The Chicago Code, that show was so stink’in brilliant. Total downer… The networks let crap shows linger on and on but don’t give the smart shows a chance to grow an audience.
Why even watch TV anymore?? Once I get hooked on a show, they yank it off the air! Why even watch the finale of Chicago Code when it is the end? I am really pissed off about Human Target and Lie to Me. I hope someone smart from a cable network will do something with these shows. I could see Human Target with Burn Notice. Not hoping for anything, thanks for nothing Fox!
That’s why I supplement my tv viewing with a lot of British TV shows aside from the American tv shows I watch now. British shows are just as good, many times better and they rarely get cancelled. I loved Breaking In though. Michael Rosenbaum was hilarious.
No, British shows run in 10 to 13 episode arcs. They don’t get cancelled, they finish. There’s a difference.
I must agree, once they realize a show is going nowhere, they modify the scripts so that the plot concludes, and the show ends. There are no cliffhanger, there is a definite start, and a definite finish.
There is also the TV tax that allows BBC to do otherwise too expensive to maintain shows and programs.
I’m mostly sad for Lie to Me, even though a blind man could see that cancellation miles away.
Also for The Chicago Code, which had plenty of talent, esp the cast, but the last couple of eps have shown creative slippage.
So sad about BREAKING IN but I bet Alphonso McAuley will get picked up by another show immediately.
I loved Human Target!! Sorry to see it go.
Wow, Chicago Code, I was really starting to get into it, hopefully they wrap it up in nice bow these last two episodes. I’ll buy the DVD, if they put one together.
Chicago code was the best new show on TV. I’m sad to see this go. Shows that you can’t do anything creative on fox.
I saw one episode of Chicago Codeon HULU Sunday – and have now watched all the other episodes since then. Best dramatic show on TV in years.
I liked Breaking In when it first started, but it always kind of reeked of 40-something uncle trying too hard to be cool with the teens at the family picnic. From its over-reliance on catch phrases to its 90s-era “high-tech” production design. Still, it had promise, and it had a GREAT, GREAT cast.
That said, as I watched, it derailed quickly. It ran out of ideas ALARMINGLY fast — by episode 5 it was already resorting to the jump-the-shark cliché of the non-sequitur celebrity walk-on. The characters weren’t even developed yet, and already a short-term ratings booster hail mary pass?
Sad, and a waste of potential. Hope to see everyone involved go on to better things.
So sad about Chicago Code. So much talent on that show; very well written, too. Damn….
I’m very upset to hear Chicago Code is being cancelled! What can we do to prevent this?
USA should pick up Human Target– it would be great with Burn Notice! I loved Human Target, but could never remember when it was on, so only saw it online. Sad to see it go.
I can’t believe FOX would cancel Lie to Me. MY family loved that show. If FOX is so stupid to cancel it, I hope that USA picks it up. USA could replace Covert Affairs or Fairly Legal (both useless).
Covert Affairs started great as a summer series, but I must say that it ended not quite as high as I would have pictured it.
This is disappointing. I was really loving Breaking In. Please don’t cancel it. It would be awesome if this was a prank, and the next headline was “Boom goes the Dynamite” Breaking In is back. I would be down with that.
I actually liked Traffic Light a whole bunch, and when I didn’t see it earlier was holding out hope it would keep going. Tonight’s episode was a fitting ending if they don’t air the one remaining next week…
BREAKING IN was garbage. The pilot was so bad I never bothered to tune in again. Thankfully the ratings dropped apparently enough so that it wasn’t carried into another season.
too bad about The Chicago Code, was really getting into it too. That guy Patrick something who played “Killian” was just awesome! He gave Delroy a run for his money. Going to miss this show was really digging it. Breaking In started growing on me too!
Noooo, love Chicago Code.
this is the craziest thing ever. breaking in is a completely fresh and original show and is one of the few live action comedies fox has launched in the last decade to actually have any buzz. the show is good. very good. they are idiots if this true.
Bummed about Human Target, but I get it. Found its stride, but not an audience. The crazy one is Breaking In. That show was FUNNY. Seriously funny — and good ratings too. Can someone explain it to me please?
breaking in was so good! Those fox execs are idiots to not see the potential this show had. Solid cast and ratings. What more can you ask for?
I want Lie To Me!!!! And I totally can’t understand why I can’t get the season 4 of it?!??!! It’s THE BEST SHOW IN THE WORLD, that I’ve ever seen!! With brilliant actors & interesting story-lines!!!! I’m angry – finally & VERY VERY VERY sad…
I expected Lie To Me to be cancelled after reading different things, but The Chicago Code! That is a great show. The acting is very good. Jennifer Beals will have to find something else since she cannot go back to Lie To Me and play Tim Roth’s character’s ex-wife.
While I think that Finder shows some promise based on the Bones episode, even that promise doesn’t hold a candle to Human Target because of the USA-Network-ness of the Finder premise. Fox should really change their minds, renew Target for 13 episodes and arrange with USA (home of other Fox Studio shows) for an eventual transition of Finder from the network to the channel. Say, double-bursts of the first six episodes on Fox and then USA while Emily Deschanel is on maternity leave and then, when Bones returns, Finder goes off to USA for the second half of its season. Target should air at either 9pm on Mondays or 8pm on Fridays. I know, I know, Kiefer’s show has the 8pm Monday slot tied up — but that show’s just waaaay too passive in concept to work long term. (The kid is the one who’s autistic and not Kiefer? C’mon, way to be indecisive about the focus.) They need an open-ended, episodic action series in 24′s old slot and so far, nothing they’ve got among the pilots is going to work in that timeslot even close to as well as Human Target could. And mind you, I *don’t* think that Target is the best thing since sliced bread. There’s just no good reason to cancel it.
OTOH, I take it that Target was developed during the regime of a previous development head? If so, then there’s even *less* reason to cancel it.
The failure of Human Target should be put squarely on whoever ditched the first season runners and writers and installed Matt Miller & crew. Never has a show gone from a brilliant first season to a mess of a second season as dramatically as HT. Everything that made the show watchable was changed from the cast to the writers to the music to the overall look. They ruined the show and then wonder why nobody was watching anymore?
I mean, a show for which each episode’s music was played by an orchestra has a certain cachet. After the first episode of the second season, you felt the different vibe. I would have loved to see HT continuing to season 4, or even more, for the original HT crew (season 1) to pursue the show.
I thought Traffic Light really found a really original funny vibe/tone/sensibility.
Bummer.