Yesterday, CBS cancelled Friends with Better Lives after just five episodes. That’s a pretty quick decision. The studio thinks it’s too quick.
Friends with Better Lives revolves around six young people who are at various stages of their lives — married, divorced, newly engaged, and single. Each wonders if the others have it better. The cast includes Majandra Delfino, Kevin Connolly, Brooklyn Decker, Rick Donald, Zoe Lister-Jones, and James Van Der Beek.
The sitcom premiered to positive numbers (following the series finale of How I Met Your Mother) but the ratings have fallen quite a bit in subsequent weeks.
The numbers were too low for CBS but 20th Century Fox Television, the studio that produces the show, has decided to try shopping the series elsewhere.
CBS will presumably air the rest of the original 13 episodes so it seems like this would be a very tough sell. Still, you never know. If the studio is motivated enough to make a deal, we may see a second season of Friends with Better Lives yet.
What do you think? Would you like to see a second season of Friends with Better Lives? Would you follow the series to cable or some other outlet?
I really hope this show finds a home somewhere else. It is really funny!
This show is amazing!
best Comedy of the moment!
PLEASE IT HAS TO BE SAVED!!!!
Please save FWBL five episode is not enough to determine its future. SAVE FWBL!
Don’t cancel FWBL! It is so funny! Please rethink this decision!
I agree! Great new show… how can you cancel it after 5 weeks?!
Save this hilarious new show! I don’t care what network it’s on. I will continue watching it!
This show is amazing. The humor in this show is finally capturing the “younger” crowd as well as the “older” crowd and honestly, is better than HIMYM and probably going to be funnier than Friends. I have never laughed so hard at a TV sitcom in my life and canceling this show is a mistake. Dumb, dumb, DUMB move CBS. I hope this one bites you in the ass and another channel picks them up and makes millions.
Best new show! So funny! Please save!!!
I’ll watch it on any channel. It’s the funniest show I’ve seen in a long time. CBS are a bunch of idiots for canceling it. It will do well on another station.
Soo funny!!! Save this show!!!
My mom, husband and I watch Friends with better lives and absolutely love it. I watched HIMYM from beginning to end and think Friends with better lives is much funnier. I really would hate to see it get cancelled. Every episode has made me laugh. I have been telling everyone I know to watch it. Please save it!
Five episodes is not enough to decide the fate of a new show, ESPECIALLY one that began so late in the viewing season. Renew FWBL for the fall and give it the chance to secure a strong following…and if it does wind up on another channel, put some ****ing effort into promoting it so those of us who enjoy it can know where it’s going.
I will follow this show anywhere! It’s so funny!
Seriously hope this show will continue, too good not to.
Save the show. Its eventually be at its top.
This show is awesome! Another network/cable should definitly pick it up!