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ABC‘s 9-10 PM comedy block, which was slated to air until the Dancing With The Stars result show returns March 29, is being dissolved effective immediately. After a month-and-a-half break, the only surviving member of the block, Happy Endings (its companion, Don’t Trust The B— was recently cancelled) will move to Fridays. Beginning February 26, reality series Taste, which airs at 8 PM, will slide to 9 PM, and a limited run of Celebrity Wife Swap will take over the 8 PM hour. (A Bachelor: Sean Tells All special airs at 9 PM next week.) Celebrity Wife Swap will be replaced with new diving reality series Splash on March 19. As for the remaining Happy Endings originals, ABC will air them back-to-back from 8-9 PM on Friday beginning March 29, after the Friday night comedy block of Last Man Standing and Malibu Country will have aired their season finales. This marks the third time slot for Happy Endings this midseason. In January, ABC slotted originals of Happy Endings and Don’t Trust The B— in the Sunday 10 PM hour in addition to their Tuesday runs but pulled them after two airings. The February 26 season premiere of Celebrity Wife Swap features Splash contestant and Playmate Kendra Wilkinson and reality mom Kate Gosselin of Kate Plus Eight fame switching families.
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For me the most horrifying news is that Kate (The Harridan) Gosselin is returning to TV! Where’s the gas pipe?
“Celebrity Wife Swap will be replace by diving reality show Splash”
Ladies and gentlemen, network television! If you need me, I’ll be over on Netflix.
Exactly, and it is going to stay this way as long as the networks program for Wall Street and its insistence on NOW, NOW, NOW instead of focusing on shows with a real following that will generate far more revenue than another celebrity-themed reality show once they hit syndication.
It’s not that simple. Of course it’s getting pulled because of low ratings. But, the point is that this is another example of a network screwing up a very good show with a) bad/no promotion and b) inconsistent scheduling. Have you watched it? It’s hilarious.
USA Network, please continue this show & help us out. Thanks.
This is really one of those times that the network gets all the blame. They have managed to screw this show up and the audience won’t know what to do with it when it comes back. It’s amazing how they have shown that teir skills as programmers have been crap in just two months with just one show that they can’t manage to accomodate.
And to think that this is all in favor of a horrible show like The Taste and embarrassing shows like (of all things) a celebrity diving show (!!!) and a celebrity wife swap show. Those two things matter more than a quality sitcom on a network that has only two truly excellent comedies (The Middle and Happy Endings)?
It’s your move TBS, go ahead and pair this up with the other great show ABC managed to screw up.
ABC is insane. They seem to seriously be hell bent on becoming the next NBC.
By all means, let’s run every comedy that’s not broad and obvious (*cough*modernfamily*cough*) into the ground.
But let’s make sure we have a bajillion hours of Shonda Rhimes on at all times – TV for people who like their plot points obvious and telegraphed 45 minutes before the end of the show.
Consistently the funniest, punchiest comedy on TV. But it unfortunately has never connected to a mass audience, regardless of timeslot. Like others, I’m hopeful a cable net would swoop in to save it, but given TBS isn’t exactly seeing huge numbers with Cougar Town, cablers may be shy to make a such an investment…
You can’t fault abc for trying, they want this show to work. Wish this was on NBC, then it would be on for years
Personally, I never had any interest in watching Happy Endings or Don’t Trust the B….No sweat off my back.
Happy Endings is garbage. Good riddance!
I will continue to watch Happy Endings until you pry it from my cold dead hands.
I love Happy Endings, love the actors and love the characters. I’m genuinely invested in them and I hope someone can save the show. It’s a clever and always hilarious show that, honestly, doesn’t belong on ABC. It’s far too edgy for that network (Celebrity Wife Swap??? – pathetic!)
the stupidest thing they did was air this and Dont trust the B late in the season with ZERO promotion. great shows need to be nurtured. not left out to die alone. good luck with your reality shows ABC cuz thats all you got. RIP Dont trust the B- funniest show on TV. RIP happy endings.
What a laundry list of ignorance that has been posted in support of the garbage comedy hour that America hated. I actually watched HE several times and The Bitch at least once. ABC promoted the hell out of these shows, even giving them DWTS as a lead-in show. When you plummet from a lead-in show with +12million viewers and a +2 demo, down to below 4 million viewers and a 1 demo, then it’s because people don’t find your show to be funny and don’t want to follow it. Characters with questionable morals, and lowlife codes of conduct may be funny to some, but most people clearly are not amused. Furthermore, if the show can’t become a hit in the Friday night at 8pm hour, like Last Man Standing and Malibu Country are, then it’ll never be a hit. To say that no one ever knows when the show is on or it recieves no promotion, all while detailing its moves from different timeslots, means you and everyone else knew exactly when it was on and still didn’t like it enough to watch it. At least be happy ABC gave it these courtesies. Guess what Cougartown got for its success on Wednesdays? …… delayed starts, multiple preemptions, pulled off the schedule, a shortened season with double episodes, and a move to Tuesday at 8pm in front of DWTS, not behind it where it would have actually benefitted.
Of course the real problem is Disney/ABC and the people that make the big decisions, aka; Paul Lee. Why you keep purchasing filth for the American audience, only to play the shuffle, move, and cancel game again and again is the arrogance of a fool. If he had the moral fortitude to purchase decent comedies that were actually funny, he might be able to build a comedy block on the network. But with his mentality, ABC will never build a successful network comedy block.