Last week, ABC pulled Happy Town from the schedule for the remainder of May sweeps period. Though things didn’t look good for the mystery TV show, the network didn’t officially cancel it. Now they have.
Happy Town follows the residents of a small town in Minnesota who are terrorized by a killing spree from the mysterious “Magic Man”. The cast includes Sam Neill, M.C. Gainey, Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Amy Acker, Steven Weber, Ben Schnetzer, Sarah Gadon, Jay Paulson, and Robert Wisdom.
On April 28th, the show got off to a bad start with a disappointing 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic and just 5.25 million viewers. For episode two, viewership took a nosedive to a 1.2 in the demo and 3.79 million viewers. ABC announced they were putting the TV series on hiatus and the third episode’s numbers dropped further still, to a 1.1 rating and 3.04 million viewers.
This week, ABC announced the new 2010-11 schedule and, not surprisingly, Happy Town wasn’t on it. The show has now been cancelled though the network still plans to run the remaining five episodes. They’ll start airing on June 2nd.
What do you think? Are you surprised that Happy Town has been cancelled? Will you still tune in to see the remaining episodes?
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I’m not happy about this show being cancelled. I got hooked right from the start! Very disappointed with this decision:(
What! thats insane…I want to know what happens!
Loved the show! ABC needs to bring it back!!!
this sucks it was just starting to get really good
It was Amazing how could they cancel it. my whole family loved it and watched it every wednesday!!!
NO, I liked that show
NO, I am not happy they were cancelled. I enjoyed that show
I can’t really understand why they would cancel such a great show. I LOVED IT!
I also loved Eastwick and they dumped that one too.
No! I loved this show! I’m just so sick of ABC coming up with amazing shows just so nobody will watch them. I tried to get all of my friends to watch this show and after weeks of begging I got one of them to watch it and he still was never very comitted to it. I just don’t understand what was bad about this show at all. Almost every episode had a twist that kept you guessing on the edge of your seat and the characters we’re great and easy to relate to. ABC just did this with another… Read more »
happy town was an awesome show they need to bring it back
I Look forward each week to this show. They aired it for a couple weeks and got us hooked, then it was off for a few weeks, then back on for a couple weeks, then off again. I am sure ratings dropped because they get you started on a show and leave you hanging, then after a few weeks of it being off the air; when they finally decide to put it back on you kind of lost interest. THe SHOW was GREAT!! Taking it off the air for a few weeks and then putting it back on, really hurt… Read more »
I loved the show! I HATE it when they get you into a show and then just leave you hanging! It’s like beginning a good book and someone just decides to take it away and says, “Oh well! Too bad!”.
Happy Town was a great show. They should bring it back.
I think that was a big mistake .. It may have got off on a bad start but I was actually starting to get really into it! Weird enough it was addicting and they definitely should’ve kept Happy Town on the air! Its different from so many shows. Ugh .. I just think it was a huge mistake.
The gates is a great TV show, but knowing ABC…..it will get cancelled!