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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This is why dvr’s are so good. I am going to start recording an entire season before I watch the first show just to make sure they wont cancell in the middle and leave me clueless. ABC is abolutely the worst about cancelling good shows in the middle of the season and leaving us lost. if you start something stick with it dumb@#$’s stop leaving us in the cold.
“Life on Mars”, “Dirty Sexy Money”, “Flash Forward”, and NOW “Happy Town” !!!
All GONE!!!!
I am sooo disappointed in YOU!!! I watched and enjoyed the shows above only to see them cancelled, ABC I give up!!!
VERY DISSAPPOINTED IN TEXAS!!!!
SO-oo upset! I LOVED Eastwick and Happy Town was getting good. I think it is stupid to not finish what you started. I can not believe the ratings were that low for either show! I don’t know if DVR’s make a differance in ratings cause I DVR almost everything I watch. Who sets the rating standards?
Really? Happy Town is being cancelled? How can ABC do this? As someone else posted this isn’t a sitcom we’re watching here! Its a mystery show! You can’t leave us hanging like this. I’ve never been a huge fan of ABC, always thought that they had a very weak lineup, with the exception of LOST!, so I guess this is no surprise, just very disappointing. Needless to say, I will NOT be watching ABC any longer. Why? Just so I can get hooked on a show and then they cancel it. No thanks!
Disappointed they cancelled Happytown. I love mysteries. Why don’t they give shows a chance, you can’t gain an audience if you keep pulling them. I will stick to cable. Everytime networks lure me in they cancel and I have had enough.
I absolutely loved this show. Like nothing else on tv. I was absolutely addicted to it. I cannot believe that it was cancelled. Why do the networks always cancel the bad shows? Is the viewing public that blind to the good shows? Do we have such bad taste? Or do the networks yank the good shows too quickly? Remember Seinfeld had bad ratings and Family Guy was cancelled and brought back thank God. ABC bring back the show. Best show you have produced in a decade. Sorry “Lost”! Bring Back Happy Town!!!!!!!! Lets get organized, start a Facebook page! Something.… Read more »
we really liked watching happy town and were sad to see it not come on and have to wonder if it was going back to crap programming and repeats of repeated episodes for other shows.. wednesday night was the only night we tuned into abc but ever since they took happy town off we haven’t watched programming on abc.
i am very dissaponated that happy town is no longer own. i was looking foward every wedsenday night to watch it, i wish they would bring it back who wants to watch re-runs of castle?! thanks alot abc for cancelling out of the best shows on your network
(BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!)
you think that the tv stations would at least be loyal to their audience! they would rather show a rerun of another series than the final episodes of a current show, the ratings may have been bad, but for those of us who watched it, its like a slap in the face to not finish it.. guess we just arent important to the station owners huh?
I started watching Happy town and I thought it was a bit weak, but the quirkiness of the characters drew me back every week. I am annoyed that ABC dropped the program everything was beginning to gel. By the way I do not watch Castle instead I watch cable.
ABC sux for doing this!!!! This is a mystery show not a sitcom, you cant pull Happytown off the air in the middle of getting us hooked, its not like were watching seinfeld!!!!!wtf!!!!!
You tell em J Z.
my entire family was watching this show! We are so upset they took it off when it was getting so good!!
I’ve been waiting and watching for “Happy Town” to return. I hadn’t realized it was cancelled until I decided to go on line and Google it. Thanks a lot ABC !!!! You can put on ridiculious “Reality Programs” but take off something people really enjoy. What are you thinking??? You didn’t even give it a chance. Goodbye ABC.
I to finally figured out something was wrong and got online today……to find out my favorite summer mystery has been cancelled!!!!!!!!!!!!. I am so VERY UPSET about this. I loved this show, and have been waiting inpatiently for it to come back on. Have been checking my recordings weekly, but to no avail. At first I thought something was wrong with my DISH DVR……then, I just figured everyone was taking a break…….but hellooooooo, CANCELLED, ARE YOU KIDDING ME. ABC, I am so dissapointed in you guys!!.
I loved the show and I am extremely disappointed with ABC.
In the past five years ABC has put out a lot of great shows: “Pushing Daisies”, “Life on Mars”, “Dirty Sexy Money”, “Eli Stone”, “Happy Town”, “Flash Forward”, “V” and “Lost”. With the exception of “Lost”, every one of those shows got cancelled without even completing a second season. “Lost” is the only good show ABC has put out and kept out in the last decade. Instead ABC seems to be determined to win the “Trashiest TV in Amercia” award, with brainless, tasteless, and no doubt cheap “reality TV” that has absolutely no basis in reality. I told myself I… Read more »
Actually, V was renewed (which is unfortunate because it’s one of the few shows that seemed to do worse as it continued; all the others just got better (Happy Town included), and that got them canceled).
You’re also forgetting a few more of ABC’s good shows. Castle and Modern Family are definitely among the good ABC shows, and they’ve both been renewed. Cougar Town and The Middle are on that middle ground where you could argue that they’re good or bad, and they’ve been renewed as well.
However, pretty much everything else you’ve said is spot on.