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The Axe Falls – The First Cancellation Of The New Television Series

Published Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:30:52 -0500

by Dan Wickline

Last updated Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:41:12 -0500

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It only took two weeks last year before the cancellation axe fell and took out the ABC drama Lucky 7. That's how long it took the series to his the dreaded 0.7 L+SD rating level. This year it took five weeks, but the axe has fallen and the first cancelled show is… ABC's Manhattan Love Story. The ratings for the show hit a low of 0.72 L+SD (roughly 2.65 million viewers) and that was all she wrote.

MLS was tucked in between the John Cho and Karen Gillen comedy Selfie and Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. The lead in show did a 1.1 rating (3.81 million) and SHIELD pulled a 1.5 (4.29 million). This means that after Selfie, almost 1.2 million people switched the channel to something else except there were no other half-hour shows on at that time. So they either jumped into the middle of the Voice or the World Series or caught the last half hour of NCIS or The Flash. And then 1.6 million came back for AoS (a lot of whom probably came from The Flash).

I don't think you can blame ABC on this one. They gave the show a decent shot to survive. The question now is what do they do with that open slot? Next week they plan on doing two episodes of Selfie, but the show is not doing great and two comedies geared toward female viewers seem like an odd lead in to SHIELD and Forever.

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