Dec 18, 2006
This is one bad day Taye Diggs' character won't wake up to discover hasn't happened yet.
ABC has pulled struggling drama Day Break from its schedule, effective immediately.
Drama, which was filling in for sibling Lost during its 13-week imposed hiatus, was expected to depart from ABC's lineup at the end of December, but after severely dismal ratings this week, Day Break was given the chop late on Friday.
Day Break's current timeslot will be filled with repeats of comedies. Given that ABC doesn't have that many comedies on the air at the moment, I'd imagine they would be of the According to Jim or George Lopez variety. (No word on what will happen to those playfully coy Lost Moments that have been popping up during Day Break; the last one was quite a shocker in fact.)
But it's not the only announced casualty at ABC, either: game show Show Me the Money, hosted by William Shatner, has been canned as well, effective immediately. It will be replaced with (shudder) America's Funniest Home Videos.
Stay tuned for news on whether or not Day Break will eventually conclude its run online.
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Jace is an LA-based television development and acquisitions junior exec who watches way too much television for his own good and would love a TiVo for every room in the house. (He’s halfway there.) His blog, Televisionary, can be found at televisionary.blogspot.com.
Televisionary has been named a finalist for Best Culture Blog in the 2006 Weblog Awards.
