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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I am so upset that Happy Town was cancelled. ABC should have given it more time to take off. Summertime is the worst time to look for ratings. People are out and about. I wish that Scyfi channel would pick Happy Town up. This was one of the best shows ABC has had. What a shame they couldn’t see the great potential Happy Town has.
abc are you listening people like happytown. the abc network does not give new shows a chance to develope a following, case in point pushing daisies , dirty sexy money, eastwick to name a few the rating system that is being used is antiquated and needs to be put out to pasture. if you want to know what people like get online and go by word of mouth. its a shame when you actually get a show on that makes you think it get yanked off the air. but i guess part of the blame has to go to us… Read more »
What I think we should have done is create a petition to at least view the last two episodes. ABC wont read this thread, so what we should do is make out frustration known to them and show them that there are a lot of people who like Happy Town and that we actually enjoy being intellectually stimulated when watching a series.
I agree with Glenda. I am getting fed up with ABC. While I understand the need for advertiser ratings, the network needs to understand that all of the viewers are invested in the show. If anything, at least commit to a season and announce it will be cancelled to respect your customers (without viewers and DVD purchasers, there would be no advertisers or DVD ancillary revenue).
dear abc network
hello
i’m just wordning are you guys going to bring happy town back to the tv net work
if not i will just have to wait until that show comes back to the abc network
thank you for listening to me lisa steelman unicorn08@comcast.net i miss happy town
the Mystery Man is the sheriff’s wife(the dad not the son). she isn’t actually dead.
I am so tired of getting involved in a series and then it gets pulled!!!!!!! Give us back Happy Town!!!!!!!
i am very upset that they pulled happy town. this show is amazing, it has you guessing and wanting more. whoever thought it was a good idea to pull it obviously didnt know what he was doing. i dont understand why they always remove the good shows! GIVE US BACK HAPPY TOWN!!!
ABC should stand for A Billion Cuts…cause all they do it cut shows we love and get engrossed in! Seriously, great shows like this one that we as consumers/viewers actually enjoy watching and because we do not have Neilson boxes or something, we do not count and therefore our shows get cancelled. Enough already! Please let a cable network pick this up and run it.
whoever cre8d the show please take it 2 a cable netwk mayb we can get a fresh start w/o missin a beat
I agree…I cant stand getting involved into these shows that make you “think” and then the networks pull them. At least you could of shown the last 2 episodes for those who were watching!
ABC really suck you follow a show, then it’s gone and they don’t even respest viewer enough to announce it. Hopefully ScFi will pick it up. I want answers
they need to put happy town back!!!! I LOVED THAT SHOW!!!!! and the least they can do is show some respect and show us what happened in the last 2 eposodies!!!
I watched every episode and I really got into the show, some of the shows that take some brainpower just dont get the ratings , if you want stupid dumbass programming then watch the ever so crappy Jersey shore with 4ft 7in. orange chick named Pukie. Or you could watch the ever so horrible” Phony Botox ******* of Beverly hills.”they should rename it” Plastic surgery disasters.” Botox should be outlawed. if it wasnt for showtime with shows like Dexter and Weeds, I would be done with TV all together.
why do they cancel the good stuff and keep on every reality show garbage? This show was actually entertaining and a lot of fun to watch and they go and put on something stupid. the least they can do is play the finale!!!