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Breaking In‘s return proved short-lived. The network is pulling the sophomore comedy off the schedule for the remainder for the season. Following Raising Hope‘s season finale next Tuesday, Breaking In was slated to resume airing originals in the 9:30 PM slot after New Girl. Now the network will air New Girl repeats in the time period. It hasn’t been determined when Breaking In‘s unaired episodes will run, with summer considered a strong possibility. Breaking In‘s fate mirrors that of freshman Fox comedy I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which was also recently pulled off the schedule in favor of repeats. Breaking In, which got a second-season pickup after being cancelled last May and a revamp, has been underperforming, opening its sophomore season with a 1.7/4 in adults 18-49 last month and logging a 1.3/3 in its most recent airing, tying a season low. It looks like Fox is looking to bolster its already renewed New Girl by double-pumping the freshman comedy.
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I’m not really sure what happened with this show. The first mini-season or whatever I thought was funny. Light and fun, but I was happy to see it come back. But this season..I don’t know, it just hasn’t really been good at all.
That’s what Fox gets for messing with the original formula… Sorry Adam Goldberg. I love your writing but the machine prevailed
That show blows anyways.
I hate this network, never getting attached to another show on it again. It’s not really a surprise though, they wanted the second season to fail from the start. They only renewed the show because everyone thought they were idiots for cancelling it last season. Now they can say they tried to make it work but there just wasn’t an audience for it… despite doing nothing to really help it increase in the ratings. Hate this network so much.
You know what kills me, my favorite shows have always been on this network. And my favorite shows have always been cancelled. I really liked this one.
loved it first season — but this new (2nd chance) season is way lame. just.not.funny.
also, why do all shows in trouble bring in Megan Mullally as a cast addition? she has talent, but i wouldn’t exactly call her track record post Will & Grace much of a success…
That show blew… but can’t Christian catch a break. He’s a great actor. He news to focus on doing a couple really tight character driven indie film.
Fox is low on shows now what?
No kidding. I guess they greenlight every one of their pilots now. Which is bad news since only one of them sounds like it could be good (the one with Kevin Bacon, natch).
The non-writing EP used to climb mountains.
i’m glad, sad, but not surprised, all at the same time… the original show was quirky and offbeat and had lots of potential to take a story places that were simply absurd and still very entertaining… the ‘reboot’ was broken from the the start, beginning with the completely miscast Megan Mullally (chewing scenery is not a valid ‘choice’) and the detoothing of Christian Slater’s “Oz”. too bad the original show, cast, and premise didn’t get a longer chance to build an audience.
Each episode of the original played like an hour-long caper frantically compressed into 30 minutes. The show had no time to “breathe” and the end result was a mess.
Not counting guest slots:
Christian Slater: 0-3 (Breaking In, The Forgotten, My Own Worst Enemy)
Megan Mullally: 0-3 post W&G (Breaking In, Party Down, In the Motherhood)
Bret Harrison: 0-3 post Grounded for Life (Breaking In, Reaper, The Loop) (all 2 season shows)
The decision to make it more about the office and less about the hacking was stupid. There’s already a show about office antics. It’s called The Office (and other NBC shows, kinda). It had something unique going for it and that was tossed out in season 2. Oh well. Was never high quality, but was kinda fun.
This show was set up to fail. There was zero network support behind it. Saw maybe one or two ads very early on and then nothing. I’m not even sure why they picked in the first place. It was doomed from the start.
Have you ever tried to watch The New Girl? It’s awful. The same stupid scene over and over again. At least this show was different and fun. Mullally was annoying but everyone else was great.
Maybe Fox shouldn’t have forced them to change something that was already working. What’s the point in bringing a show back but then making it a different show? THIS NEVER EVER MAKES ANY SENSE.
What a NOT surprise. Fox KILLED this show. First season was great, quirky fun. Didn’t care for the girl’s boyfriend (in the first season) but the rest of the cast was great, so was the writing. As someone else wrote earlier, they totally detoothed Christian Slater’s character, Oz.
Too bad, there are some great actors on this show that deserve a better chance than the cards they were dealt from Fox.
Okay message to all networks (you too 500 cable channels trying to do scripted programming most of us dont have time to watch though some of it very good): have we seen enough of Christian in pilots and short-lived series for a bit? Not working. A name doesn’t always draw why we’re casting like it’s the 1980′s still is beyond me. But go ahead, keep wasting cash.
WTF???????????? Thats what happens when you bring in Megam Mullally and you don’t know what to do with her character. The series was fine before!!!! Sheesh Fox!!!
sorry ,I sucked from the beginning. One of the most annoying shows ever. I like Slater , but not in this mess
Fox never gives a show a chance to survive. I hope they bring back the rest of this season. At least let people purchase the unaired episodes on iTunes. Fox has killed too many shows by either tweaking what worked originally or not airing the episodes in the correct order. Plus Fox didn’t do enough to promote it!
Like NBC also!
I mean, set up a show with limited audience appeal like Awake has.
Seriously, Fox…you do suck at keeping good shows on the air. It’s little wonder I never watch Fox anymore, there’s nothing to keep my interest that gets to stay more than a season…much less a FULL SEASON.
I disagree. The show was original. Last years episodes were compressed and at times confusing but if Fox wanted to retool why get rid of the characters people liked? Megan Mullally had zero chemistry with the other cast members.
THis show sucked. I am glad it is off the air.
Thank god. What garbage.
Good. Fox took a mediocre show and revamped it into unwatchable, intolerable crap. The tone was always “off” but they just made it worse.
I’m a fan of Christian Slater’s but I have to admit this show did kind of ‘fall off’ and I understand where the network execs are coming from. Ever since I got the Hopper (a whole-home DVR released by my employer, DISH) and have been making use of the PrimeTime Anytime feature where it records all the primetime shows from CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX every night, I’m free to browse much more of the primetime programming than I ever could in the past, and there’s a lot of programming out there that shows more promise than Breaking In. Slater’s had bad luck with the small screen—I was really disappointed with the cancellation of My Own Worst Enemy too—maybe he should just stick with films.
That’s lame!
It’s Fox’s fault the ratings were low. They made the creators retool everything, added females to get a more females to watch (funny, because on an article last year Adam Goldberg said more women watched it then men. Me included. And why wouldn’t we? The show had a lot of good looking guys on it. What’s not to like?), focused on those characters, practically getting rid of Cam completely, who, btw, WAS the main focus of the show. Not to mention the fact that so many characters left, but I don’t blame them. The actors shouldn’t have to wait three months or a lifetime to get a show back on the air. Anyway, like I said before, it’s Fox’s fault.