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ABC has done the inevitable, pulling the plug on midseason comedy Work It. The critically panned cross-dressing comedy opened with a so-so 2.0 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.1 million viewers and plunged 20% in Week 2 to a 1.6. Work It joins such other recent comedy to bite the dust after 2 airings as NBC’s The Paul Reiser Show and CBS’ How To Be A Gentleman (thought the latter got one extra outing on Saturday.) For the time being, ABC will air Last Man Standing reruns in Work It‘s Tuesday 8:30 PM slot but the network has a half-hour series ready to go, the long-delayed third season of Cougar Town. During ABC’s TCA executive session held just before the premiere of Work It, the network’s chief Paul Lee said that he and his team “have an idea” where Cougar Town would go. The single-camera comedy with a female lead, Couteney Cox, is not an ideal companion to the traditional sitcom Last Man Standing toplined by Tim Allen, but a time slot is a time slot. “Hoping CT’s premiere date will be announced Tuesday. Fingers crossed,” Cougar Town co-creator Bill Lawrence wrote on Twitter last night following word of Work It‘s cancellation. Added co-creator Kevin Biegel, “You should all hear very soon about Cougar Town‘s return date. Everyone gets a kiss, a hug and a handshake for waiting patiently.”
GLAAD, which had waged a campaign against Work It, deeming it offensive to transgender people, issued a statement welcoming the news of the show’s cancellation. “While many of ABC’s positive and groundbreaking portrayals of LGBT people have been critical and popular successes, the public had little interest in this outdated show,” GLAAD’s Herndon Graddick said.
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Ahead of its time…
actually it’s behind the times,,,,haven’t you ever heard of or seen “Bosom Buddies”???????
The LGBT group is sooo bitchy! Get over it! Plus, CT is awful.
Now, if we could only get Glee off the air.
You bigots really should S.T.F.U! You don’t get it and you never will. So just keep those traps shut. If you had a show depicting some outdated ignorant caricature of your lifestyle you might bitch too. This show was early 70′s material and even then it would have been out of touch with society.
Oh please, while I agree the show was terrible and just reusing a tired old premise it had NOTHING to do with being transgender. Two guys diguised themselves as women to get jobs, it was not a lifestyle or a statement on one. If they are tranny’s then I’m a college basketball player when I’m wearing a jersey. This country needs to learn the value of telling the loud minority groups to sit down and shut up, they are oversensative whiners who are out of control.
Oh, shut up GLAAD. This show was not in the least offensive to transgender people. It has nothing to do with being transgender. The only people it offended were viewers of quality television. Go jam your heads back up Neil Patrick Harris’ ass and quit making fools of yourselves.
GLAAD is a responsible group that tries to counter the bigotry so frequently displayed and even endorsed by heterosexual society. This tired show was dead before it was aired. Like Amos & Andy it had no place on network television. This was proven by the poor ratings and worse ratings the 2nd week. So bigoted fool, S.T.F.U!~
Sigh. I really wish ABC would resurrect Better Off Ted.
Second that!!
Agreed! I’ll take well done and quirky over a boring rehash anytime.
THANK YOU, ABC! Please learn from this rehash mistake.
Cool, a bad episode of Cougar Town is still ten times the show that the dross of Work It was.
“bad episode of Cougar Town” is redundant.
Paul Lee has picked up some wonderful shows like Revenge, Once Upon a Time, Suburgatory, Apartment 23 and The River. But, Work It and Pan Am and Charlies Angels were awful.
I will agree 99%. Did you watch “The River” pilot? One of the most boring, unispired hours I have ever seen. I don’t have high hopes for that one.
It’s getting some great reviews like this one. http://io9.com/5804805/oren-pelis-the-river-best-pilot-weve-seen-in-years
Did you see the River pilot? You are making an assumption on a show that has not even aired yet. It could very well fail. I thought it looked boring and not interesting at all from the previews and won’t be watching. However, I’m not going to say its awful. There are people that actually like or liked the shows you claim as awful. Take Pan Am for instance. Pan Am does well over seas and does have a loyal fan following. Its not awful as you claim. Its all personal preference. I personally will say I like Pan Am and thought it was an original idea over the usual cop/murder dramas or reality. It may have not caught on with Nielsen ratings (which is flawed anyways), but that is another story.
Oh good, Cougar Town is back. TV is saved.
So I guess I’ll just have to go back to watching Bosom Buddies reruns.
Too bad they didn’t drive an orange Charger with a Confederate flag painted on top. The outcome might have been different.
Cross-dressing rednecks? You may be onto something…the problem with this show is that it was grotesque, but not grotesque enough.
Spelled my be right! Bam!!
Cougar Town tends to drown in its own smugness. I like it, but the self-satisfaction of the show and cast push me away. Stop phoning it in.
It’s a pity. I’ll never know what happens to the two guys next. Will they embrace that womanhood is a part of them, will they be able to silence the office bitch from “Lost”, why do they hang on at the bar with the bad Patton Oswalt impersonator, there are so many unresolved questions. I haven’t felt that way since “Deadwood” wasn’t renewed.
What, ABC? You won’t pay me money anymore to promote your show on every message board? No, really, no?
Thanks, God. This one was really really crap. Goodbye, promises of “Girl Fight”, “Breast Awareness Week”, “Close Shave”, “Immaculate Deception” and “Surprise Package”, which were titles of actual episodes already in the can.
Now, if such a fate could occur to “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” or “¡Rob!”, I could die a happy man.
is I hate my teenage daughter anywhere near as awful or bad as rob or work it? seems like a bad sitcom, but harmless and not offensive like the other 2
Really, that Rob! mess is in a class of its own. CBS should be thankful that Work It was distracting critics, as Rob! seems to be, based on the pilot, the worst new show of the season.
Hate My Teenage Daughter has great acting talent, but you wouldn’t know it from the scripts they’re working with. Work It wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be — but it was bad.
What I don’t understand is how some shows get off the hook. I’ve tried Mike and Molly many times trying to see what people see in it. The male lead is grating, and Melissa McCarthy is doing the best she can with an unfunny, meatless (no pun intended) role.
God bless Tim Allen. He cracks me up.
@kieran – thank you! So sick of this stupid PC nonsense – take me back to the 60s and 70s where anything goes.
Sure, when women knew their place and earned less than 1/2 of men. That pesky equal pay the way women always complain about it is so too bitchy. Yes that PC stuff like women not wanting men groping them at work and wanting abortions legal. Just too PC.
Men dressed as women. Wow. And the things they get up to, my goodness. I saw the first promo for this and wondered fabulous drug was served at the meeting where someone said, “This is a great idea. Let’s put a few million dollars into it.”
The Exec Producers on this have been living off their mediocre contributions on Friends for far too long. Hopefully canceling Work It after 2 eps will put an end to their charade.
Can someone explain how it got on the air in the first place? Who owed who a favor? I certainly don’t think it came from a tyro scribe who broke into the business with this crappy idea.
Congrats to the powers that be at ABC to know when to cancel a show. The jamooks at WNNNNNNNNNNNNNNBC need to learn a lesson and start chopping some of their own trash like WHITNEY.
“Work It” was groundbreaking, important, unifying and unique television– from GLAAD to the Christian Coalition, from the 99percent to the 1 percent, from the SEIU to the Tea Party, the nation was united in our repulsion toward this awful programming. We may never be so unified again in our lifetimes.
I hated it too….. and I am a Twilight fan!
What a waste of time and effort for anyone involved. Did anyone really think this piece of crap would get eyeballs? Work It is total crab and Cohen & Reich should go to sitcom jail for creating this garbage. It was hacky for hacks.
Cougar Town is Seinfeld compared to Work It.
I think you meant crap, not “crab” although I’d rather get crabs than have to sit through that piece of shit.
Unequivocally the biggest waste of money in TV history. Whoever green lit Work it should be forced to watch the pilot and all episodes produced on a loop for a full year and the creators should have their WGA membership cards revoked. This show is a war crime.