After two seasons on the air, CBS has pulled the plug on their Wednesday night sitcom, Gary Unmarried. The TV show won’t be back in the fall for season three.
Gary Unmarried revolves around a newly-divorced house-painter and dad, Gary Brooks (Jay Mohr), who’s readjusting to the single life. Others in the cast include Paula Marshall, Ryan Malgarini, Kathryn Newton, Keegan-Michael Key, and Brooke D’Orsay.
The sitcom debuted in September of 2008 to a mediocre 2.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.84 million viewers. The first season’s 20 episodes ended up averaging a 2.2 in the demo and 7.06 million viewers.
Those numbers put Gary Unmarried on the bubble for renewal. It ultimately escaped cancellation, likely because CBS co-produces the sitcom and decided to keep trying to make the Wednesday night comedy block work.
This season, the show’s ratings didn’t improve, averaging a 2.2 in the demo and 6.8 million viewers.
That wasn’t good enough to earn a renewal this time around and CBS has cancelled the series after 37 episodes. The network has also canned The New Adventures of Old Christine and Accidentally on Purpose.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that Gary Unmarried’s been cancelled, that there won’t be a third season?
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Gary Unmarried was one the funniest shows on TV. Nice job CBS, maybe he should have been Gary Unmarried CSI or Gary NCIS. What a joke.
TOO bad, another goog comedy gone. whats the matter with cbs???????
Gary Unmarried and New Adventures of Old Christine were two of our favorite shows and we will miss them both very much. Bring them back. If for some reason we coouldn’t watch them live, we taped and watched later with no stupid commercials. Down with the reality shows. We hate the reality shows.
do the networks not realize that the ratings simply from tv do not dictate the shows actual popularity, i loved this show and end up watching 90% of episodes online, this has got to be the case for a lot of people and now the network has cancelled yet again another good show because people don’t tune it to it like the do reality shows, which are horrible for the most part. i wish these guys would get their head out of the a$$.
This show was ****** awesome, so was accidentally on purpose. **** CBS, **** them up their stupid asses.
**** them it was one of my favorite shows to see
I am applaud that they will not bring gary unmarried back. The show was funny. Please change your mind!!!!
That’s too bad, the show was epic!
I loved this show! I can’t believe it is cancelled.
This blows my mind, that show was hysterical – loved all the actors on it and the comraderie that all of them had together. Definetely bummed about this and hope that they do bring it back – wish we could vote and write to CBS directly!!!
BOOO CBS! I loved this show. Cross another good show off the list. Pretty soon I will throw my TV out the window before I watch the crap they are keeping on the air.
I can’t not believe that this show is off. I just went through a divorce myself and watching this was the only thing that made me laugh in my bad times. This was a great show and I don’t believe that CBS even had a clue what they had. I want this show put back on the air; anyone out there agree?
I agree. Loved Jay’s character. Paula was kind of a fox.
I am very bummed about this. This was a great show. Every episode was fantastic. Please bring it back. Maybe try a different night?
Are these people crazy ??? It was one of the classiest comedies i have seen. How on earth can they stop it. Please bring that show back ……. please please
Another good show gone. I really dont think networks have a clue what people like. This was one of the best sitcoms on tv