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.) Beginning in early January, the slot will be taken over by the launch of new midseason comedies Knights of Prosperity and In Case of Emergency.
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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Here's some advice, ABC. Don't order serialized dramas if you don't intend on airing all of the episodes.
Morons.
I mean it wasn't enough for them to cancel The Nine now they cancel this too, and they don't even have anything to fill the slot with, I hope whatever reality/news show they replace it with tanks.
Too little focus on character for a good story, too much production effort for a first run. Diggs sounded like an android. (I laughed whenever his Hopper yelled or expressed concern or quiet frustration, so maybe the show wasn't totally humorless.) What a tremendous waste of $$$. Bye bye, Day Break.