Comic actor Kyle Bornheimer has found a new job. He’s signed on to a new series for ABC, along with Alyssa Milano and Eric Christian Olsen. What does this mean for Worst Week? Is it cancelled?
Worst Week is a quirky, single-camera sitcom that follows unlucky Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer) as he tries to make a good impression on the family of his pregnant fiance. Though he’s very well-intentioned, things just go from bad to worse when Sam’s around. A remake of a UK sitcom, the regular cast also includes Erinn Hayes, Nancy Lenehan, and Kurtwood Smith, with recurring roles played by Scott Beehner, Nick Kroll, Jessica St. Clair, Hayes MacArthur, Parris Mosteller, RonReaco Lee, and Brooke Nevin.
Bornheimer and company premiered on September 22, 2009 and followed CBS’ most-watched sitcom, Two and a Half Men. The sitcom debuted to 10.87 million viewers and a 3.8/8 rating/share in the 18-49 demographic. The following week, it dropped to 8.96 million and a 2.9/7. The season, which finished on February 16th, averaged 9.83 million.
Those numbers look good on their own but aren’t as impressive in light of the size of its lead-in. Week typically loses about 35% of Men’s audience. Last season, both The New Adventures of Old Christine and Rules of Engagement retained a larger percentage and the network seemed barely satisfied with that.
Now that Week has completed its freshman season of 15 episodes, Rules has returned to the post-Men timeslot. A more logical lead-out, Rules’ return attracted 11.82 million and a 3.9/9 in the demo, significantly outperforming all but a single episode of Week.
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CBS hasn’t given any official indication about whether they’ll be renewing Week for another season but most believe it won’t be returning. With a new deal at ABC, it seems Bornheimer and the alphabet network believe so as well. Bornheimer’s still committed to Week if it returns but ABC wouldn’t cast him unless the cancellation was very likely.
In the end, the network’s decision will likely come down to two scenarios. CBS has been only moderately successful with its Wednesday night sitcom experiment. If CBS gives up on the idea, then Christine would likely return to Monday nights, killing Week.
If the network decides to keep two nights of comedy, CBS execs might renew Week or could decide to take a chance on a new sitcom. In the end, Week’s chances for season two are minimal at best. In the end, we’ll likely have to wait until May to find out if Week’s luck has run out.
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ok,seriously?worst week is the BEST comedy show on television!!This show is as funny as Three’s Company,which has become legendary!My wife and I DEPEND on the show for out-loud fun and laughter,and we,along with the rest of America,need that escape for sanity in an insane world.Please do your network a favour and keep it on!
Everyone likes the show here in Spain. I still haven’t met anybody who disliked it after watching a couple of epidsodes.
If it did not get a good share audience in the US, it MUST be because it was not properly “sold” to the audience, because the show it’s simply great.
Just like the Spanish TV1 did with ER: also a great show, but they continuosly changed the day, then the time, then made mistakes by repeating some of them without any sort, not announced on Tv…and finally the dare say it has no audience…NO WONDER! if the last time I watched it I had to record it because it was broadcasted at 3 am! This is what I mean when I say a show is not properly “sold”, not because the show itself is not worth it, it’s just because some buttheads destroy a good show by not properly managing it.
I can’t believe CBS canceled this show, as it was the best comedy I’ve seen in a long time. It was lough out loud funny but with terrible ads around town. No one understood those big billboards that looked like a guy wearing a diaper. Maybe with better marketing, the show could have survived. What a shame, I’ll truly miss that half hour of laughter.
i have been watching sitcom for over 30 years and i must admit that this show was a rarity. any show that can bring me to tears of laughter week in and week out has to be renewed. i cant believe they will let it go by the waistside when there are worst shows out there. please cbs give it a chance. cheers took awhile to find an audience and believe me if you give it a chance so will this show
my husband and i watched every episode and loved them all. my kids also love the show. my son ask me today when it would be back on. i look up and was disappointed to find out it maybe cancelled. please don’t cancel the show. there is not alot of funny comedy on tv now. this show is hilarious……… put it on fridays or saturdays nothing on these nights. but don’t cancel………….
My husband and I talked about Worst Week the other day – wondering if it would be returning. There is so little on television that causes us to laugh out loud. I cannot stand reality tv. I really do not like the whiny Old Christine show – I think I’ve watched one episode and the previews do not lure me back. Worst Week was very clever and refreshing. Shame on ABC if it is canceled.
I miss Worst Week.
This show captured us as we were flipping through channels. I love funny videos of people hurting themselves in unexpected ways so I gravitated to this show immediately. It was a looked forward to fix. A subject we talked about while drinking beers on Fridays… Just a damn good show dammit. It’s hard to believe something this sideslittingly divine is getting pulled.
Watched the whole season on netflix.. Very funny and creative, I hope it is going to be back for more seasons.
i can’t believe they cancelled it! it’s currently the best comedy show on TV!!!
So sad that it’s gone. This show was so funny and well written. All of the cast worked
great together and i believed it could last a long time. It’s another WRKP that was taken
off tv way to soon.
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