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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i am so depressed that the show ended please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! BRING THIS SHOW..."
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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 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.
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 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 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?
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.
ABC Family…………..BRING RUBY BACK!!!
Save the show. You are a bunch of idiots when you cancel ruby and the rockits, I really
enjoy the show. Dump some other stupid show that is horrible.
Dorothy Cavanagh
show was terrible!
Ruby and the Rockits was a really great show to watch
Ruby and the Rockits was a fun show. It had something for everything. My family loved watching it together (a 10-year old girl, a 15-year boy and two forty-something parents). I hope another network picks it up. It obviously has a following considering the poll numbers.
Finally a show that I could sit down and watch with my kids. I loved this show!! To much reality on tv these days. Bring back situation comedy. I love Ruby and the Rockits please bring it back. PPPPPPPPLLLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
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