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NBC's Prime Suspect Ordered To Shut Down Production

NBC’s mid-season shake up has caused quite a stir. Some shows left off of the schedule warranted a bigger outcry than others, but no show goes unnoticed. Freshman cop drama, Prime Suspect was left off of the line-up and now cast and crew were notified to shut down production.  read more

Roger Ebert's At the Movies Could Be Canceled

Chicago-based film critic Roger Ebert told fans that his show Ebert Presents: At the Movies could end soon unless he gets some financial assistance.  read more

How To Be A Gentleman Moved to Saturdays, Effectively Cancelled

Over the weekend CBS announced that its underperforming freshman sitcom How To Be a Gentleman would be sent to the television graveyard, Saturday night. The announcement was coupled with news that the episode order would be cut from 13 to nine.  read more

Langerado Canceled Once Again

Langerado, South Florida's premier music festival of the 2000s, appears not to have eluded its recent curse: On Saturday, Boros Entertainment announced the cancellation of the 2011 festival, which was supposed to be held Oct. 8-9 at Markham Park in Sunrise, Fla.  read more

Starz Cancels Party Down

Despite our last-ditch efforts to save Party Down, including six reasons you should watch Party Down and an extra few reasons with the airing of the finale last week, the show has been axed by Starz....  read more

City of Reno Tourism Agency Launches Online Campaign to Save Reno 911!

Cancellation of Comedy Central's Reno 911! has provoked one unlikely organization to step up and lead the show's revival: the city of Reno's tourism agency. ...  read more

What does ABC's cancellation of Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone mean for network TV?

The fact that I hadn’t ever really seen anything like Pushing Daisies should have been my first clue it was headed toward the graveyard. In this day and age—where crime shows, hospital dramas and reality TV dominate the Nielsen’s top tier—there isn’t much room on network television for anything outside of the status quo. Pushing Daisies was just too inventive, too ingenious, and just too damn cute to survive in these turbulent TV times. So it goes....  read more

What does ABC's cancellation of Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone mean for network TV?

The fact that I hadn’t ever really seen anything like Pushing Daisies should have been my first clue it was headed toward the graveyard. In this day and age—where crime shows, hospital dramas and reality TV dominate the Nielsen’s top tier—there isn’t much room on network television for anything outside of the status quo. Pushing Daisies was just too inventive, too ingenious, and just too damn cute to survive in these turbulent TV times. So it goes....  read more

Dress Sexy At My Funeral: Why did NBC axe Lipstick Jungle and spare Kath & Kim?

TV heaven got a bit more cramped last week as NBC announced the cancellation of two of its prime-time dramas: My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater as a double-life-leading former CIA agent, and Lipstick Jungle, starring Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price as rich white women making bad choices in the Big Apple. Having never seen an episode of My Own Worst Enemy, I can only attest to the quality of Lipstick Jungle (and read on, I will), but by now we should all know that even the best showssnagged enough viewers to stave off the executioners blow...  read more

Dress Sexy At My Funeral: Why did NBC axe Lipstick Jungle and spare Kath & Kim?

TV heaven got a bit more cramped last week as NBC announced the cancellation of two of its prime-time dramas: My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater as a double-life-leading former CIA agent, and Lipstick Jungle, starring Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price as rich white women making bad choices in the Big Apple. Having never seen an episode of My Own Worst Enemy, I can only attest to the quality of Lipstick Jungle (and read on, I will), but by now we should all know that even the best showssnagged enough viewers to stave off the executioners blow...  read more