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.
This is just another reason to save your money by not spending it on things advertised on ABC, then wait to see what shows get to complete the plot and then use your saved monety to buy them on DVD. It’s not just ABC. All broadcast television is run by idiots, I assume.
No more new shows for me. This is just insane.
PLEASE put this show back on the air. It is a high quality show and one that we watched every week.
ABC pulled this same bull with Invasion also. If they are going to pull all of these good shows off the air, those corporate dumbs**ts can at least let us now what happens. I don’t trust ABC (American Bull Crap) anymore. Death to all new ABC shows.
I was disappointed to find out that Daybreak was cancelled. It is too bad that you did not give this series its full 13 weeks. I remember when Fox first aired 24. That show was on the verge of being cancelled, to the point that they filmed a closing point to the show at the 13th episode (rather than waiting until the 24th), but as things look better, they added a twist and the show continued. Now look it it. The point is not to say that Daybreak is going to as big of a hit, but it is to… Read more »
Daybreak rocked! It was made for people with ADHD and I know there are many more than 3.1 million!!!
Bring it back- finish the season as there are so many worthless shows and heck- the eps are in the can so run them instead of reruns!!!
Absolutely rediculous. Yeah, perhaps the viewing figures were getting low, but there is no reason not to shift it to a different timeslot so that the regular viewers can watch it! Movie studios make films that are absolutely crap, that they cant put out in theatres they are that bad, but put them out on DVD cheap BECAUSE AT LEAST PEOPLE GET TO SEE THEM!!! what idiot decides to blow off a few million regular viewers and not even announce if we’re going to be able to see what happens. For Gods sake! I reckon the most likely scenario is… Read more »
Ewww I am so angry with ABC, so angry in fact that I will *NEVER* watch any show that airs on ABC again. You guys seem heartless and cruel to suck in an audience and then cancel that show in mid stream.
By doing this you have LOST many viewers now! Forget “LOST” it is too dragged out. I say FORGET ABC!!
it takes the piss because i live in england and wont be able to watch it if its on abc.com im sooo angry.
what happened? this was my favorite new show! it was smart and made me think! i want to know how it ends!! why abc why???
I mostly watched this show online due to work schedule. Hopefully it will be released on dvd or the remaining episodes posted online.
WOW, I went to stream another great episode of Daybreak and saw that it was missing. I thought it was a fluke but after doing a little bit of searching I still could not find it. I went straight to Google and found this site which confirmed that Daybreak was indeed gone… ABC, What the heck is wrong with you??? This was one of 3 shows that I would watch (the others being Lost and Prison Break, though they both have been losing some appeal) and now it’s been canceled. They are really idiotic to have canceled it, hopefully another… Read more »
Why would you stop such a great show…i am so mad! bring day break back! Even if you have to play it late afternoon!
What a great show!!! I will not watch ABC until it returns…
WOW .. I have not watched TV for the last 4 years. DAY BREAK was the only show that made me turn on my TV every Wednesday. I guess the people who didn’t like the show couldn’t even understand the plot.
It better come out on DVD. If not in stores at least online where they won’t have to worry about how many to produce and what not. This is ridiculous to have a show like this that they already put so much money on thrown away leaving viewers hanging. You try to look on ABC’s website and it is like daybreak didn’t even exist. I finally found a show that I could watch and I get screwed because of aholes thinking about money money money. AHHHHHH