To no surprise, ABC’s Better Off Ted has been cancelled after two seasons on the air. Though it was a hit with critics and a devout group of fans, it just never found a mass audience.
Better Off Ted follows Ted Crisp (Jay Harrington) and his fellow employees at Veridian Dynamics, a strange and heartless technology company. The rest of the cast includes Andrea Anders, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Barrett, and Portia de Rossi.
Last May, ABC decided to show some faith in the freshman sitcom and renewed Better Off Ted for a second season. At that time, the ratings weren’t great and they got even worse after the renewal announcement.
When the network began airing the remainder of season one during the summer months, they averaged a terrible 0.74 in the 18-49 demographic and 2.09 million viewers.
For season two, Ted debuted with a 1.5 rating in the demo and 3.82 million viewers. As bad as those numbers sound, they got even worse.
Paired with Scrubs, ABC decided to burn off the remaining episodes of Ted in January. Despite campaigning from some loyal fans, viewership hit a new low for the season — a 0.8 rating and 2.17 million viewers.
The writing’s been on the wall for a long time and realistically, based on the numbers, the TV show shouldn’t have been renewed for a second season. Many in the cast have taken other jobs and the series has now been cancelled by ABC.
What do you think? Many really loved this show but it never attracted a big audience. Why?
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I am so angry about this! Now I have to watch the show over and over.. I love it
It’s too bad that it was canceled really great and funny show
Loved BoT,
I live in the UK and it’s the funniest current sitcom around, came across it watching fox one day sad to see it had been canned, i think its main reasons for being cancelled was lack of promotion and advertisement, I think a lot of people have missed out on by not seeing the show for them selves.
I am so dissapointed that this show was canceled. i should have watched it when it was on but i didnt get a chance. Better Off Ted was so my type of comedy, I couldn’t be;ieve how hilarious and refreshing. The cast and writting was excellent really totally awesome. Very sad to know its no longer aired I laughed so hard it about made me cry. That doesnt happen often.
I loved it too, found it by accident. Had never seen an add or any promo & poof it was gone with the duest of fast horses!
Such a wonderful show.
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