ABC Family has decided to pass on ordering a second season of its freshman sitcom, Ruby & the Rockits.
In Ruby & the Rockits, former teen icon Patrick Gallagher (Patrick Cassidy) has been living quietly with his wife (Katie A. Keane) and their two sons, teenage Jordan (Austin Butler) and sarcastic preteen Ben (Kurt Doss).
Things change when Patrick’s former band-mate brother, David (David Cassidy), shows up with David’s previously unknown teenage daughter, Ruby (Alexa Vega). David doesn’t want to give up his show-biz life and leans on his brother to help raise his daughter, who’s a rising star on her own.
The show debuted on July 21st to 1.6 million viewers and 654,000 in the 18-49 demographic, making Ruby the second best sitcom launch in the network’s history. It even built out of the audience of fellow freshman comedy 10 Things I Hate About You.
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Unfortunately, those numbers didn’t hold up and the sitcom lost steam in the following weeks. While the network has renewed 10 Things for another 10 episodes, ABC Family has decided to dump Ruby after one short season.
The final episode is scheduled to air on Tuesday, September 22nd. In the episode, titled “Smells like Teen Drama,” Jordan and Ruby compete for the attention of the same girl. Privileged’s Lucy Hale guest stars as Ruby’s best friend and Jordan’s new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Ben is being bullied at school. David and Patrick want him to fight back while his mother has a very different point of view.
What do you think? Should the show have been cancelled or did ABC Family make a mistake?
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There is also a poll right on this page that asks the same question should Ruby and the Rockits be canceled and 83% agreed that the show sould not be cancled it at least should have one more season not all the episodes should have the same problems they are trying to come up with new ideas. I would look forward to tuesday nights at 8:30 to watch this show and even when I would miss it I could watch it on my cell it was an all around great show and should not get cancled because it lost some fans. They should at least get one more season mostly to sum up the first season because it ended when Ruby and Jordan were fighting over some girl. At least they could show an nice episode to end it all like Ruby and the family having a happy ending.
I Loved Ruby and the Rockits and what does 10 things I hate about you have to do with this Ruby was a awesome show that was funny and dealt with teens and their problems I don’t think they should of cancled Ruby and the rockits just think about it would you want them to cancel 10 things either?
I loved Ruby & the Rockits. It was a great show. They are most defiantely making a mistake. Every shows loses viewers due to conflicts of sheduling an such, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to show more than 10 episodes, because the steam will pick back up, if it’s a good show. Which Ruby & The Rockits is. What if ABC family had cancelled Gilmore Girls after it’s first, not very high rated season? They would have lost out, big time. Just as they are doing in this situation. Personally, I think 10 things I hate about you, is a cheep ripoff of the great movie made ten years ago. They cast just, doesn’t work as those people. ABC needs to bring Ruby & The Rockits back.
I think that Ruby and the Rockits was an amazing show! They did have a constant story line..Just different ideas every week! The storyline is that Ruby is living a “rising star” life with her dad’s brother while her dad is staying in the showbiz life. The constant flow of the show cant be the same thing every week! Pretend this is real life situation, everything everyday wouldnt be the same..Different things would be happening in your life and household and that’s what they were doing for Ruby and the Rockits..They were trying to make it like a typical family household life. In a typical family household life, you wont be seeing the SAME EXACT things happening everyday now, would you? 10 Things I Hate About You seemed like a very good show but I just couldnt get my attention caught up into..maybe just because I couldn’t connect myself and my life with the show..But, with Ruby a& the Rockits, I was definately able to connect myslef and my own public and personal life to the show! I know that right now my own dad is working into showbiz and I wouldnt be able to really live with him even though right now I’m in the making of trying to be an uprising star. This is what I mean by being able to connect with the show.
I think the show has potential. Give them another season to figure it out. I know I looked forward to watching it every week because I knew it would get better and towards the last episodes it was on its way. The cast is good and the writing is good; though it could use improvement. It’s not my favorite new show, but I like it and would be a little sad to see it go before it was given a real chance.
They needed to cancel RUBY AND THE ROCKITS it, they couldn’t come up with a good constant story line. I love 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, and maybe they can extend it to an hour!
RUBY was boring, there wasn’t any flow of the the story line, it was downright boring after awhile.
I loved Ruby and the Rockits! My parents and I loved it.
I also loved Ruby’s clothing line. I think they should bring Ruby and the Rockits back!
BRING RUBY BACK !!! IT IS A GREAT FAMILY SHOW, I AM 42 YEAR OLD WOMAN AND I LOVE IT !!!! I LOOKED FORWARD TO IT EVERY WEEK!!
Please bring back ruby and the rockits! It was a really great show! Shaun Cassidy is a great writer. Patrick and David are wonderful.
Dorothy Cavanagh
oh my gosh. they shoud have gotten rid of that show 10 Things I Hate About You instead of Ruby and the Rockits. It was so funny and the best show ever. I cant believe they wouldn’t get rid of 10 Things I Hate About You. It’s so stupid. They try way to hard to be funny and they just make it look stupid and everybody i that show is annoying and ugly. Ruby and the Rockits was actually a good show and not like all those other shows.
BRING BACK RUBY AND THE ROCKITS!
Comeon, I just got to watch the first season and I love it. It was funny, Clean good fun. David your still the one, To bad we didnt get to see any of Shawn on the show. How can we get you back on the air?
Hey, wait a minute,
This was an entertaining show that My 13 year old son, myself and husband all looked forward to. I can’t even think of another show that we all could agree on. As a mother and former David lover from 1971-72, the show gave me something fun to watch. My son, 13 now 14 loved the beautiful Alexa, eyes fixed on her every move with husband even laughing along. I wish ABC would consider a second go at the show. Tampa will miss seeing David–great concert on July 3rd by the way and Miss Vega was so sweet. My son will be disappointed and there went our Tuesday family fun time.
signed,
We love you always
BRING RUBY BACK!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on people,Ruby and the rockits rocked it was a show my sisters and i could watch and jordon was so cute and the little brother ben was funny.Why don’t they give it a chance for kids and teens like us,it was a show that even my parents liked and it was a show that we liked rubys clothes and the parents were funny .cancelling the show after a few episodes whats up with that.Maybe the kids should run the network we would make better choices.Lets all come together and write letters my mom did in the seventies.With so many shows out there NOT for kids it was good to see one for us.
come on how many good new shows are out there for the family my daughters love this show and so do we as parents.Its funny musical and appeals to all david cassidy for women like me who grew up on him and the partriage family and to the kids who love music and style and there arenot alot of family shows out there.Whos running the network anyway.Well we will be watching the old shows on t.v. land until the networks excetives get on it or until another show comes along for the whole family to enjoy.WE SAY BRING BACK RUBY AND THE ROCKITS.
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