The peacock network has decided they’ve had enough of Jason Lee and his show about karma. They’ve cancelled the My Name Is Earl sitcom after four seasons on the air.
Revolving around a petty criminal (Lee) who’s hit by a car and decides to atone for his long list of wrong doings, My Name Is Earl also stars Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, and Eddie Steeples.
The show began as a moderately successful show for NBC with 10.9 million viewers in year one. That audience has eroded over the years and currently averages about six million people per episode.
The cancellation move doesn’t come as a huge surprise. NBC held talks with the show’s studio, 20th Television, about renewing the show at a reduced price but it didn’t work out. Suplee twittered to fans, “Just got the call that My Name Is Earl has been canceled. They sure did take their time with that decision or rather informing us of it.”
Now that the show’s been cancelled by NBC, the studio is trying to cement a deal with another network to pick up the sitcom for season five. The show heads into syndication this Fall and, though there are already 98 installments, additional episodes would really pay off for the studio.
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shocking news…whats gonna happen to chuck and 30 rock then, best not get too attached to these great shows
this is stupid, my name is earl is my favorite tv show. and its reasons like this that theres nothing ever on tv! bring it back! its hardly fair ending a show when its last episode features the words “To Be Continued”. at least give us one last series so we dont have to wait 30 years for someone to make it up for us in a competition like they did with the Italian job.
IT’S A SHAME…
I’LL BE POSTING MY REVIEW ON THE MAJOR SITES IN HOLLAND VERY SOON.
THIS NEWS IS STILL KINDA FRESH TO ME. NBC IS ONLY GONNA GET BAD REVIEWS IN HOLLAND FROM NOW. NOT THAT I CARE ABOUT THAT STATION ONE BIT, BUT I DO CARE ABOUT GOOD SHOWS LIKE “MY NAME IS EARL”.
FIRST THEY MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE GET ATTACH TO AND WAIT FOR EVERY WEEK. THAN THEY JUST TAKE THAT PART AWAY FROM THOSE PEOPLE AND LEAVE THEM FEELING EMPTY INSIDE.
THAT’S NOT RIGHT!
NBC AND OTHER AMERICAN COMPANIES ONLY THINK ABOUT GETTING MONEY IN. THEY DON’T WANNA SPEND ANY MONEY ON THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
I HOPE THAT ONE DAY AMERICA WILL COPY THE DUTCH SYSTEM OF HEALTH CARE AND TAX SPENDING. IF IT WORKS FOR 16 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN THIS LITTLE COUNTRY, WHY NOT FOR ALL USA. (307,006,085)
GOOD LUCK…
‘Earl’ stays fresh after four seasons, ‘30 Rock’ goes downhill in a major way (not only predictable, but even within those stupid plots I was writing better jokes off the top of my head) in it’s second season, but it’s “Earl’ that gets cancelled??? That makes NO sense.
Earl is off and Parks & Recreation is on? The world is a ball of confusion.
They should just release my name is Earl season five to viedo they cant just leave us hanning.
my thirsday night will never be the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!my dad looked like earl when he was young.
MNIE is more of a reality show than all of the other “Real” Reality shows. Alot of us common people can relate to Earl. I can honestly say that it’s the only show I watch on NBC. I can think of a bunch of other shows NBC should cancel instead of Earl. Well, I guess it’s Good-bye to Earl for now and NBC—-Forever.
Can we at least agree the acting in “My name is Earl” was better than parks and recreations? and the twists of karma are funnier than a middle government entity getting a permit…. I mean a date. If I wanted to see dating problems I would just watch 30 Rock.
yeah it sucks i wish they would at least release the season 5 completed episodes on dvd. i eally wanted to see if Earl Jr. was really Earl’s LOL. that is so wrong leaving it to be continued
It’s just another example of how a tv show that is based in the south and has a huge following in the south gets cancelled too soon!!!! These tv execs think that only the large northern markets and the west coast markets are all that matters, well those of us in the south are bored with those same old, same old shows. It’s actually surprising it lasted 4 seasons, just ask Rodney Carrington, Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall.
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