After just two weeks on the air, ABC has decided to pull Happy Town from the schedule. The TV show will be back but, for how long?
Happy Town follows the residents of a small town in Minnesota. After being plagued by kidnappings years ago, it seems the mysterious “Magic Man” has returned to start a killing spree. The cast includes features Sam Neill, M.C. Gainey, Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Amy Acker, Steven Weber, Ben Schnetzer, Sarah Gadon, Jay Paulson, and Robert Wisdom.
The series got off to a poor start two weeks ago with a 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 5.25 million viewers. Last week, for episode two, viewership took a nosedive to a 1.2 in the demo and 3.79 million viewers.
To no surprise, ABC has pulled Happy Town for the remainder of May sweeps. After tonight’s episode, the series goes on hiatus for two weeks and will return on June 2nd.
While this wouldn’t necessarily be a sign that the show will be cancelled, the ratings are. They’re terrible and there’s every expectation that they’re just going to get worse — especially with warmer weather coming and people spending less time in front of the TV.
After tonight’s episode, there are just five episode left. With numbers like these, fans of Happy Town will be lucky if the network shows the rest of them, never mind a second season.
Next week’s episode will be replaced by an edition of Primetime: What Would You Do?. On May 26th, ABC will present the network premiere of the Transformers movie.
What do you think? Why isn’t Happy Town performing better? Is it just not a very good TV show or are viewers just missing the boat?
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NO WAY!!!! I really like this show. Now that Lost is almost over I am in need of another good show to watch. You are sooo right Mary. They need to put it on at 9pm so they can see how well it will go. I’m bummed now. 🙁
I love this show ! It’s only been on 3 weeks, people don’t always catch on to things immediately. All the new shows have been coming on and others are cancelled, it may take a few weeks for people to get it. I’m hooked, I love it. I’ve never used Hulu before tonight because I was pissed I couldn’t find Happy Town on last night, so I came online today. I love love love this show
I’m very disappointed they are pulling Happy Town! It doesn’t seem like it got much of a chance at all. Its hard to stay up that late if you work in the mornings. Also, there are lots of shows that have ended up doing really well in the ratings even when their first season wasn’t all that great. I think Happy Town has a good script and good actors, this first season is much better so far than season one of many successful shows. This course of action by ABC doesn’t make me want to give their fall lineup a… Read more »
This show is awesome! It’s just not being marketed properly. There’s no way once people bother to watch it even one time that they won’t be hooked!
Show was getting interesting but who can really tell after two episodes! Big shocker though. Networks expect stellar ratings right off the bat or they cancel a show. Viewers refuse to watch until a show has been on for awhile because they are so sick of shows getting cancelled after 2 episodes. Abc is the worse about this. Good luck abc. With netflix and the ability of viewers to wait for a show to be on a season before devoting their valuable time to a show dlypu might cancel after two episodes you will need it. Brilliant model. No wonder… Read more »
Love this show!! Dont pull it!! ABC does this to decent shows sometimes…. Maybe another network can pick it up!! This pisses me off!
Way to not give Happy Town a fighting chance ABC! First you give Cougar Town a TERRIBLE name and then throw a show on immediately after with a similiar name that you don’t even give viewers the chance to watch! Shoddy footwork on this one Disney, oh I mean ABC. Thanks for giving me one more reason to watch NBC from now on.
I am disappointed that ABC is canceling the show. Just when things were getting good, they kill it. It seems every time I find something on ABC that I like, they cut it which is why I don’t switch to ABC too often, this just confirms it. I will keep my DVR scheduled for the show with hopes they change their mind. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other stations that have sci-fi shows available.
They need to put into account the internet views of the show. I for one won’t make time to sit in front of the TV at a specific time to watch a show when it’ll be on Hulu the next day.
Great show
I love Happy Town! I was really getting into it. Please don’t let it go!
I really got into the show. I think its interesting and was disappointed when I went to watch the 3rd episode and it wasnt on. THE REASON IT HAS POOR ATTENDANCE IS THE FACT ITS ON AT 10:00 AT NIGHT.. YA THINK? HELLO ABC IF YOU PUT IT ON AT 9:00 IT WILL DO BETTER!….. GEEZUS WHOS RUNNING THIS PLACE.. YOU MUST OF ALL WENT TO CLOWN COLLEGE!
This is horriable. I was just getting interested and they pull it! That is CRAZY!
I love this show!! im so disapointed!!!
I love Happy town. I was getting into this show. I am PISSED at the fact that they stop showing it.