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UPDATED: Pickup news flashes are flying fast and furious today, so some have fallen through the cracks as I try to stay afloat. Here are some notable renewal/cancellations: As expected, Body of Proof became the second ABC freshman series after Happy Endings to make the cut for a second season. Better With You, Off the Map, No Ordinary Family and Mr. Sunshine are canceled. Also dead is NBC’s freshman comedy Outsourced.
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Too bad about Mr. Sunshine.. Kinda liked that one more than I thought I would.
I will miss the theme song. loved it!
Boo, definitely displeased by Better With You getting the axe. especially with the rise in ratings it’s had. A good show that deserved better.
You must have worked on that piece of crap.
Seriously. I watched the entire first half of the season before I finally took it off my DVR schedule. The one and only show this year I stopped watching mid-season. Not to knock any of the actors, but good riddance to bad rubbish.
Nope, but I enjoyed the show. Heaven forbid someone enjoy something you don’t.
no surprised about any of them…..especially off the map…..like tramam hawaii style or miami style or the last med shows to bite the dust….
Better With You deserved better! And I did not work on it. It was not crap.
Happy Endings was a mistake to keep. The fact that isn’t done moderately well and is not a breakout hit like Modern Family only means that next season it will get less ratings as there are a large amount of traditional format sitcoms taking the air and this single cam comedy will just feel out of place since it doesn’t have a loyal audience already.
I think Happy Endings is hysterical – it just needs to get a better time slot.
Wow, BETTER WITH YOU was starting to get funny. The actors were playing off each other nicely and the pace was finding itself. Too bad. This show was bland at first, but it really proved itself by the end, discovering it’s voice and hitting all the right marks. Could have been an ace in syndication after just a couple seasons, where shows like this thrive. Should’ve stuck with it, ABC. But I’m glad HAPPY ENDINGS will return.
Really wanted to love MR. SUNSHINE, but I didn’t even like it. Perry was fantastic as always, but the supporting cast, both the actors AND their characters, were beyond terrible. I found the show so very boring.
I actually felt the total opposite about Mr. Sunshine. I loved Allison Janney and Nate Torrence. It was Matthew Perry I found insufferable. Though, yes, Andrea Anders is as bland as ever. Seriously, why do people keep casting her? SHE’S DULL AS HELL AND NO ONE LIKES HER.
Why did She House I mean Body of proof get renewed?
That series is terribad with a lead absolutely devoid of any screen charm.
A shame about Better with you, with a second season it could have grown to be a good new thing. They should sell it to CBS, they are desperate for a sitcom that won’t tank and won’t have Chuck Lorre’s lunacy in it (we know Ashton Kutcher is just gonna put nails on 2 1/2 men like that horrendous 9th Scrubs season)
I completely disagree, Body of Proof deserved to be renewed. The plot concept is unlike house who deals with medical cases while BOP deals with criminal cases by evaluating the dead body thoroughly to collect evidence someone could have never found.
I like that show, and I am also a huge Jeri Ryan fan.
How did Happy Endings make the cut and Mr. Sunshine, which is actually original, clever and adorable, get cut. I swear I am the kiss of death to all new shows or shows on the bubble. Every time I like something, they cancel it. Matthew Perry should hate me. Sorry, Matt! Sorry Joan of Arcadia, Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone and the many other shows I destroyed! My DVR is a veritable graveyard of innovative shows that got canceled once they made my list. I am sure others will follow.
Oh, I don’t think it’s your fault that Mr. Sunshine was terribly unfunny.
I think the fault it’s on the fact that Matthew Perry actually think that jerk character are funny.
I still lament Pushing Daisies. What an inexcusable and unforgivable mistake. Who do you think you are, ABC? Fox?
I couldn’t agree more, I feel exactly the same way. Shows like Pushing Daisy and Choas are so entertaining and set in imagination as opposed to those reality shows. Reality shows are awful and are leading our society down a bad road. Shows like Mr. Sunshine, Chaos, Outsourced and Pushing Daisies gave us something to enjoy and use our imagination, even if only a little….What’s going on!! I don’t get it.
I have said the exact same thing about myself.
My thoughts exactly. Different network, but do you recall NBC’s JOURNEYMAN? We loved that show and it was just getting really cool when they chopped it. We felt the same way, don’t get interested in an intelligent show with potential because those are the ones that get killed. I guess they want us to stick with the fluff. We actually cut off our cable and just watch Hulu.com we get all the shows we want and even some older series that were canceled along the way.
BODY OF PROOF was the only quality show in the bunch (love Dana) so very pleased that it was finally picked up for a second season and the dreck was put out of its misery so I’m not forced to endure more terrible previews for them.
Outsourced was an endless cliche, Mr Sunshine might have been halfway decent in 1992, and Better With You had some decent episodes–especially the racist little kids book about the bad brown puppy–but was mostly mediocre. But so is Mike and Molly and yet it somehow magically draws people.
At least ABC is trying. CBS has no idea what real comedy is. CBS doesn’t even factor into a discussion about what should and shouldn’t be on television. I honestly don’t know a single person under 40 who has ever seen more than one episode of a current CBS sitcom.
Oh man, Matthew Perry cancelled again. It’s really too bad because he’s a good guy, but every pick he’s made since Friends has been worse than the next.
Pretty sure you mean “worse than the last.”
Good riddance to No Ordinary Family.
AGHHH! NBC hated Outsourced.
The show was the only consistently funny show that wasn’t trying too hard to be hip. It was just…nice. And silly. And always funny.
More so, when NBC tried to kill it by pushing it to 10:30, the following two weeks Zap2it reported it was the ONLY Thursday show that saw its audience rise. Then they pulled it for three weeks.
NBC hated this show.
“…just…nice. And silly. And always funny.”
Exactly – I always enjoyed watching Outsourced – all the preceding shows were trying so hard to be clever. Oh well.
Kplan? Think this is the creator?
NBC may have hated it, but I loved it.
Shame about Outsourced. When I first heard about it I thought it would be offensive. Over time I have added it to the DVR and enjoy it. It wasn’t the best comedy out there on Thursday but it was decent. Why can’t they just let some shows be a decent show.
it was a steaming pile of racist garbage. and the cast thought so too. THANK GOD it is gone.
I have to admit, I just don’t get this show. I watch NBC’s entire Thursday night lineup and have seen every single episode of Outsourced, but I never thought it was funny. I don’t think I ever laughed out loud once. Not sure what that means about me, then, that I sat through 22 episodes of it lol.
“The Office” is so last-decade tired. “Outsourced” was fresher, funnier and had a heart without being overwrought. NBC is mired in the past with choices like this. My prediction is that whatever replaces “Outsourced” will be less funny and will be cancelled within the year. And for what?
NBC isn’t the only network that hated the show — I hated it, too. So did everyone else. My hostility stems from the fact that moderately racist piece of crap cut the Parks and Rec season in half. The preceding shows weren’t “trying too hard” to be clever — they WERE clever. And hip. Community sometimes breaches my tolerance, but really expanded this year. The Office still chugs along at a decent clip, but Parks and Rec is the best show of the night — by far.
Outsourced replaced Parks and Rec because Amy was having her baby.
The network giveth and the network taketh away.
Definitely a mixed-bag from the Jamie Tarses-run Fanfare this past season. Happy Endings lives on (quality show, terrible timeslot), while Mr. Sunshine and her brother’s Mad Love are not long for this world (more Judy Greer for Archer is okay in my book).
Jury is still out on Franklin & Bash, but if those promos during the NBA playoffs are any indication, that will be another swing and a miss.
To quote Wile E. Coyote, “Well, back to the old drawing board.”
Wile E. Coyote is a mute.
Really sorry to see Outsourced go. It was a consistently funny show with great characters and a lot of heart.
I loved Outsourced. The cast was fantastic. It was funny with heart.
Reminded me of 30 Rock.
is it dead?
One show had capable writers and one show did not. Mr. Sunshine is a perfect example of what happens when a good cast meets bad writing.
“You must have worked on that piece of crap.”
I did. What a relief to see it go. Long hours, and the director using a mic which was much, much too loud. That was some serious pain. Good riddance.
I have to say that despite every bad review of “Outsourced”, I loved it. It was great to see a non Caucasian cast on TV. I found it very funny, and am sorry to see it go.
Yes to Happily Ever After, No to Mr. Sunshine? Good grief. Seriously?
No Ordinary Family finally got to the freakin’ point in its last episode, but I think my husband and I were the only two people on earth who actually waited around to see it happen. How can anyone create a show where the viewers care – deeply care – about every character on it, yet absolutely HATE every single episode’s storyline?
off the map was great. too bad its cancelled.
Uh…quality show is what your talking about? Can anyone say Detroit 187? There’s your quality show.
Mr. Sunshine had an original plot, super cast (his boss was hilarious) and I thought was a great match up with modern family. That network got lucky with modern family, and seems to be screwing up again, canceling quality comedies. Abc= winning*
So sorry to see Outsourced go… can’t it be resurrected elsewhere? Clearly even NBC was on the fence about keeping it, if they waited this long to decide.
“Mr. Sunshine” was irredeemably bad, from the casting of the secondary characters to the misbegotten opening theme. It almost appeared to be a primer on how NOT to make a sitcom. “Hey, let’s not be funny.” “Hey, let’s be arch and ironic.” “Hey, let’s waste the talent of the stars.”
Matthew Perry and Allison Janney, while both talented actors, came off as unsympathetic and, worse, boring. Her power-mad boss was a loose cannon for no discernible reason other than to give Perry’s sad sack manager an epic case of heartburn. He wore desperation each week like dime-store cologne.
This show made “Wings” look like “Masterpiece Theater.”