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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

ABC's "Life on Mars" Canceled


Following the November slaughter of its sophomore dramas "Pushing Daisies," "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Eli Stone," the Alphabet net has pulled the plug on its freshman series "Life on Mars," too. The final, 17th episode will air April 1.


The US version of the same-titled UK time-traveling cop drama launched last fall in the troubled post-Grey's Anatomy slot on Thursday nights at 10pm, premiering to a decent audience of 11.33 million viewers with a solid 3.7 rating among adults 18-49.

Following the initial sampling, the show lost 3 million viewers, but remained stable at 8 million viewers (and a 2.6 demo rating).

Then the network decided to cancel the above-mentioned dramas and try to save Shonda Rhimes' medical series "Private Practice," by moving it next to its parent series "Grey's Anatomy."

For this reason, "Life on Mars" was moved to Wednesday nights at 10pm, replacing "Dirty Sexy Money" and leading out of a new season of "Lost."

But the network decided to wait for the return of "Lost," thus putting "Life on Mars" on a 2-month hiatus. When the show returned in late January 2009, it immediately lost an additional 2 million viewers.

A recent episode of the show bottomed out at 4.63 million viewers, pulling in a very weak 1.6 rating among adults 18-49.

That means "Life on Mars" did worse leading out of "Lost" than "Dirty Sexy Money" did leading out of "Private Practice" last fall.

For this reason, the show will end on April 1. A week later, ABC will premiere in its place new midseason drama "The Unusuals" about a female NYPD homicide division detective played by Amber Tamblyn ("The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants").

The producers of "Life on Mars" were allegedly given sufficient time to give its show a proper series finale.

Labels: ABC, Cancelled Shows, Life on Mars

posted by Justin Van De Kamp at 7:00 AM

5 Comments:

Blogger The Rush Blog said...

And yet . . . LOST will be returning for another season.

Right now, I'm too pissed to say anything further. I hope that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindehof's career fall off a career after that lousy show ends next season.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 8:50:00 PM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

EVERYONE PLEASE write to ABC to protest the cancelling of Life on Mars----one of the FEW DECENT shows ABC airs-----at the address below:

http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html

Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 4:47:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous loan said...

yes you are right there carrier has been fall off now...and its nice post

Friday, July 3, 2009 at 5:45:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Michael Scott said...

Hey! your post is really very informative. I hope that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindehof's career fall off a career after that lousy show ends next season.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 5:35:00 AM EDT  
Anonymous Facelift Abroad said...

Aww..bad news.

Monday, May 2, 2011 at 4:57:00 AM EDT  

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