As you may recall, ABC recently announced that they were reworking their Wednesday night schedule (in preparation for the return of Fox’s American Idol). That left fans of Day Break out in the cold as the Taye Diggs series would be pulled from the schedule after the December 27th episode had aired. There was some hope and speculation that the series would be moved to another night. We now know that’s not going to happen.
The Lost-replacing series Day Break has been pulled from the schedule even earlier than expected. The ratings for Day Break have continued to fall since its debut and the latest was no exception. The sixth episode, entitle “What If They Find Him,” attracted only 3.1 million households. As a result, ABC has yanked the drama effective immediately. Repeats of George Lopez and According to Jim will fill 8-10pm Wednesdays for the next two weeks (both sitcoms begin new seasons in January on Wednesday nights).
There are seven unaired episodes and, as of now, there are no plans to air them on the network (joining fellow dramas The Nine and Six Degrees). The good news is that ABC has said they will post the remaining episodes online, with a new episode being posted every Thursday for the next seven weeks. They may decide to release the episodes for purchase online via iTunes but I’m guessing that will have a lot to do with viewer demand.
I love this show, and I just wanted to say thanks to those who put it together. Being a Firefly fan, I had hoped that such a fiasco wouldn’t happen again, yet it did. It’s a shame, especially for poor Adam Baldwin, but I still can’t wait to see the finale.
Well at least they have the new episodes online now…
i guess you could call this show a “cult hit” still abc dropped the ball with this decision of cancellation
When are your going to post the last show “DAYBREAK” online. Thats all I want to know. I can’t believe this show was cancelled. (SUGAR.HONEY.ICE.TEA)
What happened to episode 13. I don’t see the new one online today, 2/19.
Check out my Day Break fansite: http://www.daybreak.tk
For the past two months I have been wondering what happened to day break, I loved the show. This weekend I started searching and realize it had been pulled for low audience? Everyone I know was watching the show and they loved it too. What a surprise when I saw that, at least, they posted the remaining episodes, I watched six in one day, it felt good!. Now I am waiting for the last episode, #13, and still wondering who in abc made the poor decision to remove the series.
Day break is great and it suck that ABC is pull a Deja view on its viewers.
This suck that ABC did a Deja view on the viewer….
i have had zero confidence in a network owned by disney, yet shows how a country singer is going thru a painful divorce of sexual infidelity on ‘dancing with the stars.’
what a slimebag network.
no wonder I watch foreign tv and japanese reality shows that they are copying 20 years later anyway…
I just wanted ppl to know how much I love Day Break and how much of a disservice ABC is doing to its viewers. All my friends and I watch it and we were shocked to find out it was cancelled. What a crock of garbage! It’s a riveting drama and anyone I’ve recommended to watch the show has become an instant fan. I think we should petition ABC to bring it back!
Day Break is a brilliant and thrilling show! I still watch it religiously, despite it no longer airing on T.V. I am fine with it airing online, so long as I get to watch it. The problem lies in the fact that there will not be another season of the show. This is a crying shame. I watch a lot of T.V. and know a good show when I see one. Not only is Taye Diggs an amazing actor, the show had a great theme going. Such a shame! ABC, wake up and get with the program!
I just watched the last last streamed episodes. I should be, and usually am, doing something else much more poroductive than watching TV. I fit any possible marketing demographic. ABC, you have missed the boat. My prediction is that Daybreak will become one of the biggest cult hits of the last several years. I’m a Lost watcher — big surprise. But Daybreak blew it away. There has been nothing on TV like it. It was as fresh as watching Sopranos for the first different. Totally different, of course, but just as fresh. The ensemble acting was pitch perfect. Each character… Read more »
This is crazy!! ABC sucks so bad right now.. I love DayBreak.. Got my husband into watching it online. All I have to say is that ABC pulled out the wrong show. A lot of people loved that show!! Its just a shame!!!!
It can’t be ignored how many people want this show back on television. Although watching it online is nice, but we want it back on OUR BIG screens. ABC is toying with its viewers just like whoever is toying with HOPPER! This show is intelligent and revolutionizes where television series could go and ABC is treating it like a piece of garbage…dishonoring it. Sell it to CBS or NBC..maybe those networks will give “Daybreak” and the viewers the respect we deserve. STOP DISRESPECTING THE VIEWERS!!!
Well, well, well… I’d just like to say this… If you haven’t gone to ABC.COM to watch some of the remaining show’s of Day Break, you are truly missing out! I still cannot for the life of me believe that this show didn’t get the love that it should of. I feel that it is literally the best thing on TV, or atleast neck & neck with Grey’s! Such a Briliant show should have NEVER been canceled! Please, if you haven’t started to catch up yet PLEEEEEEASE do yourself a favor by going to abc.com and get on it PRONTO!!!… Read more »