If you were waiting anxiously to find out the identity of the mysterious Magic Man on ABC’s Happy Town, you’ll have to wait a bit longer.
Happy Town revolves around a bunch of strange disappearances and murders in a small town. The large cast includes Sam Neill, M.C. Gainey, Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Amy Acker, Steven Weber, Ben Schnetzer, Sarah Gadon, Jay Paulson, and Robert Wisdom.
After a disappointing start in the ratings, Happy Town was pulled off the airwaves for much of May. Before the show could return on June 2nd, ABC officially cancelled the series. Only eight episodes have been filmed but at least answers to some of the TV show’s mysteries will be revealed by the end.
Unfortunately, ABC has pulled the show off the air once again. Happy Town was scheduled to take next Wednesday off but return for June 30th and July 7th with the last installments. The network has decided, likely because Happy Town’s ratings have gotten really bad, to replace them with repeats of Castle.
It’s likely that ABC will get around to airing the last two episodes of Happy Town on a Saturday night sometime this summer. It won’t be soon though. On July 3rd, they’ll burn off the last episodes of the forgotten. On July 10th, the network’s airing the extra two episodes of Eastwick. Could Happy Town return on July 17th? Another mystery that we’ll have to wait to have solved.
What do you think? Are you upset that ABC has pulled the last two episodes of Happy Town? Do you think they’ll ever air?
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Very disappointed. One of the very few network shows I liked. I thought an excellant cast and was very suspenseful. Back to the cable stations.
I had been waiting until my DVR got stocked with Happy Town episodes before I watched, because of my schedule…and now that I am really into it, its gone…VERY disappointing!!
This is so frustrating to say the least. For those of us who have been following Happy Town we deserve to view the whole series before the summer re-runs return. As much as I love Castle, I was anxiouslsy waiting to watch the conclusion of Happy Town.
B.G.
This is exactly why i stopped watching ABC everytime they put a show out that i absolutely love and really get into it gets yanked. Happy town Eastwick and a few others i mean come on. They are going to keep messing around and eventually no one is going to bother watching them anymore.
This is totally not right. Another good program on TV and it gets pulled after just a few episodes. It have been better to have made it a short series from the start so there could have been a conclusion and not leaving most of the story line up in the air.
I love Happy Town! I love mysteries with a twist. It reminded me of last years Harpers Island. I envisioned ABC putting out a mystery series every summer! I can’t believe the episode ends with Dee Wallace and we’re left hanging? I can’t stand reality TV!
I am so upset with ABC. Give a show a chance. Why show reruns of a show, which I personally hated, when we could at least finish out Happy Town with the remaining episodes? I am becoming quite unhappy with ABC’s choices.
ABC is ridiculous…they do not give anything a chance and don’t even use a time slot to finish off shows that obviously have a fan base, e.g. Flash Forward and now Happpy Town. How can a lame show like CASTLE be successful…doesn’t even come close to old shows like Hart to Hart or Moonlighting or even BONES which isn’t great but way better than CASTLE..ugh.. and they will put on CASTLE reruns????
Yes, I am upset. I enjoyed the show and I’m tired of watching shows that get pulled before they even get started.
first Ugly Betty, now Happy Town. and you wonder why I now watch HBO and the other paid networks more than I do with regular tv. Not a good move ABC.
It’s really sad. I feel like ABC didn’t even give it a real try. They would put it on then take it off then put it on and take it off again. No wonder it couldn’t get an audience. Well it had me a lot of my friends. So lets see the rest of it. ABC has a bad habit of doing this with shows. They don’t give them a fair chance. BOOOOOOOO
It’s incredible…. all the good shows are been canceled. I understand that everything in the business is a number competition but Happy Town was one of the good writing series with a good cast, suspense and drama. Reality of everything is that shows well written are been canceled because the low rating meaning that more and more people like stupid shows like the Bachelorette and reality shows that aren’t reality at all because they are all written. At the end TV is directed to the dumb audiences . Instead of putting the bar higher they are lowering the bar on… Read more »
Why is it that they start a show and then stop? At least finish the the show out and let the people who watch it get the satisfaction of the ending. Put it in a different time slot if it is not working out. People can at least record it if it were to come on at 2am or whatever time they could find.
I think what it all comes down to is the money that they are not making.
To hell with the viewers that were watching it! Is that what ABC is saying? You decide.
I’m ticked off. I looked forward to watching Happy Town every week. Seems like every show I like gets pulled. It was quirky and strange but that’s what I liked about it. Are they going to put another freakin’ doctor/hospital show on? Wasn’t Swing Town on ABC as well? It had lots of good music; I and a lot of others thought it was great and it was pulled.
wow,does ABC not care anything about good television any more? I suppose people hurtling themselves onto giagantic inflatable objects over water is their idea of entertainment? Some of your viewers actually have a brain in their head and like to think when they watch t.v. as opposed to having things hand fed to them or watching yet another cookie cutter reality show! Happy Town was creative with a wonderful cast, the story was suspenseful and thought provoking, unlike anything else. Why not give a decent show a chance instead of tossing it out to make room for more of nothing?… Read more »