To no surprise, ABC has cancelled freshman sitcom Hank. The Kelsey Grammer show failed to catch on with critics or many viewers.
Hank revolves around a Wall Street CEO who’s kicked out of his own company and must relocate with his family to his small hometown in Virginia. Aside for Grammer, the series stars Melinda McGraw, David Koechner, Jordan Hinson, and Nathan Gamble.
The sitcom got off to a slow start on September 30th with a 2.1 rating in the demo and 8.34 million total viewers. The numbers got worse from there and last week Hank hit a series low of a 1.3 rating and 5.09 million viewers.
It’s been assumed that the show would be cancelled for awhile now, especially since ABC handed out full season orders to all of its other freshman sitcoms; The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougartown.
ABC confirmed the cancellation of Hank today and said that production is being halted after 10 episodes. The sitcom’s end comes on the heals of the cancellation of another struggling Wednesday night show, Eastwick.
Five episodes of Hank have been aired so far and it’s unclear whether or not the network will get around to showing the remaining five at some point in the future.
For now, Hank’s timeslot will be filled with repeats and specials.
What do you think? Was this show as bad as so many people think? Was there anything that could’ve been done to fix it?
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Hank was the worse show by far on this “sitcom night”… I’m actually glad it’s gone… Cougar town should follow… I mean, Courtney Cox tries to hard and without her 5 “friends” she just can’t pull it off… I like Christa Miller, her sarcasm is fantastic, she was always awesome on Scrubs, and is actually the only good thing in Cougar Town… The Middle is sort of weird, but I kinda like it, even though Neil Flynn’s not using all his potencial… But the little kid cracks me up… Anyway, the only sitcoms I give a thumbs-up to are Modern Family, and also Community and Accidentally on Purpose, even though they air on different nights… I hope those 3 last… The others, well, won’t be missed…
Hank WAS a show that was flawed in concept, writing and delivery. Although the concept of fish out of water story line is been done successfully on other TV shows in the past, the creators/writers of HANK created a character that was truly unlikable and unrelateable to most viewers. Most people that watch HANK had zero empathy for his character. When Kelsey Grammer acted in Cheers he was tolerable snob, when he acted un Frasier he was a whiney, pitiful snob, in HANK he was a whiney snob. That is not entertainment. Two ways this show could have been redeemed # 1) HANK loses it all and actually has to take a blue collar job — and/or #2) utilize the story telling devise of showing how life WAS for HANK rather than simply telling- Kelsey Grammers interpretation of the character , HANK , was like Frasier on Whiney Steroids. ABC didn’t cancel this show , poor choices doomed it.
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