It’s closing time for Chelsea and her pals. NBC has decided to cancel the low-rated sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? after 12 episodes and one season.
Based on a book by Chelsea Handler, Are You There, Chelsea? follows the life of an opinionated and unapologetic young woman (Laura Prepon) who lives life to the fullest as a cocktail waitress. She’s many things to many people — friend, daughter, sister, and sexually dynamic “advanced drinker.” Others in the cast include Lenny Clarke, Lauren Lapkus, Jake McDorman, Mark Povinelli, Ali Wong, and (occasionally) Chelsea Handler.
The sitcom had a decent start — registering a 2.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.18 million viewers — but things went downhill from there.
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Subsequent episodes of Chelsea saw big drops in the ratings and, over the course of the season, went as low as a 1.1 rating in the demo and 2.88 million. It aired opposite American Idol on FOX but these were numbers were poor even if you take the stiff competition into consideration.
The season ended up averaging a 1.5 rating in the demo with 3.76 million. Had the season gone on longer, the averages would have dropped further. On our NBC Ratings Report Card, which measures the relative demo success of shows on the network, the show has a “B-” grade.
To no real surprise, NBC has cancelled Chelsea. The last episode aired on March 28th. The peacock network has ordered several new sitcoms for 2012-13, hoping they’ll last longer than Chelsea did.
What do you think? Are you sorry that NBC has cancelled Chelsea? Do you think the show was better than what the ratings indicated? What would you liked to have seen happen in season two?
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Please bring it back. I thought it was a great show..
Maybe if Chelsea was the lead….. Just saying
Excellent acting/plot. So sad it was canceled
Let’s face it the show was cancelled because the idiot yankee fans did not like that chelsea was a met fan and those retards who keep watching american idol year after year. Godammit a good sitcom gone! Death to Idol already and disgusting yankee pride!
Such a great show seriously u need to bring it back
Honestly I like the show prepon and handler where the reason for me to start watching and yes maybe something on the show wans´t right but with some new writing staff the show could actually be great iit was ok already and it didn´t get the chance it deserved a second season yes in did make a petition people it work for chuck for a while. NBC is not a surprise at all they finish chuck with a last season of 13 episodes WTF and they will finish FRINGE with the same amount they spend time respecting some of the… Read more »
This is a big mistake!
This show was awful. Rather stick my finger into an outlet
Sorry I meant to say I CANNOT believe they cancelled Chelsea. I would like to also add that who ever it is that picks what programs stay and what programs get cancelled is a moron. It sure seems like the good programs are the ones that end up cancelled. The stupid programs that have absolutely no comedy, no sense, and no real acting in them are the ones that stay.
I can believe they cancelled a great program. That was a new program that I really enjoyed watching. Whenever new programs come on, I can’t even get past 5 minutes of watching them before a turn them off. Chelsea was one of the 3 newer programs that came out in the past 10 years that I can enjoy watching and look forward to watching every week.
Can’t believe Chelsea was cancelled!! It was one of the funniest shows on tv! My husband and I loved it! All good shows get cancelled anymore. Heroes is another show that was great, bring that back please!!!
[…] TV show dates: January 11, 2012 – March 28, 2012 Series status: Cancelled […]
One of the funniest shows on the air, so of course it was canceled. I noticed that a lot of people didn’t quite understand the humor so no surprise it went this way. Only the great shows get yanked these days, so hopefully the people behind the show at least can get that.
soooo true!!!!
excellent show!!! it’s a shame that it was cancelled!!
Thank God!! Somebody at NBC woke up and saw what they were airing! With shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones on, how could the execs at NBC lower the bar so much? Are they really that stupid to just throw so much money at such a stupid waste of time like “Chelsea”? Hopefully all of the money (and loser ratings) will show NBC and E how much they wasted on her shows. Maybe it will make them realize that people want more. What a waste of time and money spent-this time slot could have been used… Read more »
HOW is E “wasting” money on her show????? if anything she brings in droves of new viewers who otherwise would not give a **** about the garbage that is aired on E! NBC, fine, I agree, they can bring far more enriching shows to the table. ***** all you want that Are You There Chelsea didn’t fit in with the other shows the masses love on NBC, I get that.. but E?!?! WHAT on EARTH could E air that “resonates with the American people”? more episodes of the kardashians?!?! LOL
i have to dissagree. DISS : Your comment is unfair, you are comparing different genres, therefore dissssscrediting you’re entire comment and forcing me to make this useless unheard COMMENT: this was a great comedy series, it did deserves a second season i completely support ms. handler and many other comedy artists making people laugh is not easy and something everyone possesses. it needed work, it needed cleaned up. no studio audience : it works for Chelsea lately but the masses cant handle it in a sitcom format Laura Prepon’s character required better timing a lot and again, that studio audience… Read more »
I will miss Dee Dee. She was the best part of the show.
Yessssss! Love Dee Dee!!!!
We actually really liked this new show…was so happy to see Prepon in another sitcom! 🙁
i love laura prepon!!! so sad it didn’t worked out 🙁