To no surprise, ABC’s Better Off Ted has been cancelled after two seasons on the air. Though it was a hit with critics and a devout group of fans, it just never found a mass audience.
Better Off Ted follows Ted Crisp (Jay Harrington) and his fellow employees at Veridian Dynamics, a strange and heartless technology company. The rest of the cast includes Andrea Anders, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Barrett, and Portia de Rossi.
Last May, ABC decided to show some faith in the freshman sitcom and renewed Better Off Ted for a second season. At that time, the ratings weren’t great and they got even worse after the renewal announcement.
When the network began airing the remainder of season one during the summer months, they averaged a terrible 0.74 in the 18-49 demographic and 2.09 million viewers.
For season two, Ted debuted with a 1.5 rating in the demo and 3.82 million viewers. As bad as those numbers sound, they got even worse.
Paired with Scrubs, ABC decided to burn off the remaining episodes of Ted in January. Despite campaigning from some loyal fans, viewership hit a new low for the season — a 0.8 rating and 2.17 million viewers.
The writing’s been on the wall for a long time and realistically, based on the numbers, the TV show shouldn’t have been renewed for a second season. Many in the cast have taken other jobs and the series has now been cancelled by ABC.
What do you think? Many really loved this show but it never attracted a big audience. Why?
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Big mistake when they cancelled this… Big Mistake
Good. Bored to death is much better !!!!
I loved this show, I was proper gutted that it was cancelled. Bring back Better Off Ted NOW…. Pleaseeeeee
I found better off Ted on Netflix! This show is so amazing I’m so so so disappointed it was cancelled! Such a witty cast and fun plots! Bring it back on the air with better marketing and time slots please!!!!!!!!! Better off Ted season threeee c’mon!
I didn’t know about this show until Netflix and can’t believe it was cancelled. It’s one of the funniest, cleverest shows to be on for years. I am so disappointed and angry that the network did such a terrible job of promoting it.
i enjoyed this show very much
it was bever reakky adversised enough I saw it on netdlix and loved it.
How disappointing — I FOUND this show on Netflix too, why didn’t ABC do a better job marketing it when it was on? I LOVE it and two things come to mind. Some of the humor is gutter but much of it is elevated hi-jinks, sarcasm and snark. I think it’s over a lot of people’s heads in today’s environment. And if you don’t understand corporate America from an inside perspective or even an outside perspective, you won’t get this humor. America is in the process of breeding itself dumb, idiocracy is happening now. This show would have soared on… Read more »
I never even heard of this show until I found it on Netflix a couple of weeks ago. When I went to search for more info…so disappointed to find out it was cancelled after season 2.
I loooooved this show! I also found it via Netflix and have watched all the episodes. I’m really sad it was cancelled it was hilarious 🙁
i found the show on netflix and loooooved it too. the writing was fantastic. when i started to look for season 3 and discovered it was cancelled, i was heartbroken. i love ted. he hot. i loved his acting. veronica- amazing…and linda too of course. the only thing i didn’t like was the lack of continuity between shows and it took way too long for ted and linda to get it on….well, they didn’t even get it on, they just had a simple kiss. it should have happened at the beginning of season 2 and it should have been a… Read more »
We LOVED Better off Ted! It always seems like the best TV shows are taken off the air! 🙁 Chuck, Heroes, Better Off Ted… all brilliant! all cancelled! it sucks!
The reason this show was canceled was do to ****** time slots. Its the same thing that happened to arrested development. When a good show does poorly they blame people but when they have no reservations shoving half the stuff on air down our throats. The problem is a lack of commitment. When you only back a project with 10% that is exactly what you will get out of it. Bad marketing plain and simple. Shame on you ABC.
Was major disappointing to find, there was to be no season 3, I just had a whirlwind relationship with “Better off Ted” via Netflix, Season 1 & Season 2, in 2 days, I loved it, to say the least, now heart broken, I say good bye to Veronica, Ted, Linda, Rose and the rest of the Cast. I will miss that sexy ass Portia de Rossi.
I loved this sitcom, I also found it on Netflix, I was so hooked that i would stay up until like 3 am watching this. It never even had a real ending! For those who have Netflix another good show is arrested development but it was also kinda cut of, they say they were making a movie that was a while ago.
I cried when this was cancelled 🙁