Losing More Laughs

Last March I lamented the loss of some of my favorite comic strips. The Boondocks, Fox Trot, and Big Top had all come to an end. And now I come to find out that another comic strip that I’ve become attached to in order to fill this comic void ran its last strip this past Saturday. Lucky Cow is no more.

Cartoonist Mark Pett has decided to pursue other ideas in other forms instead of continuing with Lucky Cow. The humorous happenings in a Lucky Cow fast food franchise actually got funnier as the strips kept coming in. With Claire trying to avoid work, Leticia the vegetarian working to sell the burgers, and Neil the loveable idiot, there were many characters to enjoy.

Yet another bit of fun taken from our everyday lives. What’s going to be left on our comic pages? The unfortunately unfunny stalwarts such as B.C., Cathy, or Shoe?

One New Series Officially Over

We now have our first official cancellation of the 2007-2008 television season.

I recently posted that Fox had pulled the reality drama Nashville, but it was not officially cancelled. Fox is still saying that Nashville will be coming back sometime this season.

So, the honor of first cancellation of the new season goes to the CW’s Online Nation. This program, from it's first week, could barely get one million viewers. That spelled death for it from the beginning.

Maybe it’s me, but if we want to see videos from online sites such as YouTube, won’t we go to YouTube? What’s the extra appeal of seeing them on television?

But some congratulations should go out to some freshman series that have received full season episode orders. These are definitely the shows to look out for since they appear to be succeeding. Shows that will definitely be with us until at least next May are the CW’s Gossip Girl, ABC’s Private Practice, and CBS’ The Big Bang Theory.

First Once Bites the Dust

It didn’t take long. While just a few shows have been on for approximately two weeks, for most series we are only in the first official week of the new television season. Some series aren’t even debuting until October.

And we now have our first casualty.

After to airings to dismal ratings FOX’s Nashville has been pulled. This reality-soap, in the same vein as Laguna Beach and the Hills, just didn’t earn enough of an audience on Friday nights to warrant a longer run.

The network has said that Nashville will return at a later time. But that will be to just burn off old episodes. But that’s the end of it. Once pulled like this it’s 99% sure that Nashville is heading to official cancellation.

Cancellations in the New Year

Happy New Year all. I have two program cancellations to report.

Fox's prime time soap, The O.C., has been cancelled after being plagued with low ratings. After a promising start the ratings started to fall. Then Fox moved it to Thursday's at 8pm, which happens to be an incredibly competitive time slot. It really had no chance to survive. The series final episode will air in February.







The Megan Mullally Show, a syndicated talk show, was also cancelled. It will air repeats through January. Mullally, former co-star of long running sitcom Will & Grace, seemed like a shoo-in for talk show success. However, she barely garnered 1 million viewers a day.