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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I loved the show!!!!…How can they do that…We must get the last 5 shows!…You have my vote…
i like happytown.bring it back !
This show is so good! FINALLY a show thats really suspensefull. You never know whats around the corner, so it keeps you guessing, but still gives you some answers, so you dont lose the story and get pissed off. GREAT SHOW!!!!!!
Total Bs, they always pull em when they are getting good!
Bring back Happy Town! Tired of those Reality Shows they are a bunch of JUNK!
To many comedy shows on, lets have a mystery show once in awhile, something
different. Let them finish the series, it is just for the summer or for a few weeks
anyway, what harm is in that, bring it back, so we can try and solve the Mystery !
I don’t know why they can’t finish the series of Happy Town, it was to be a short
series just for the summer for a few weeks, not an on going series, so just put it back
on and wrap up the show and go on from there. Dee Snyder
ABC has some new shows starting this season with some good actors for past shows. I say we boycott them to show ABC who pays there bills. Even if you watch the new ones they would just get pulled off the air as soon as you started to get interested in them. I say down with ABC.
I am going to stop watching network television; as soon as you start watching their new programs they cancel it. The network executives need to be educated in the fine art and understanding of allowing a program to “catch on” with the public at large.
Happy Town! It never fails. I like the show !!! Please finish what you started!! Yeah the Gates good also…….
GREAT SHOW. YOU HAVE TO RUN THE NEXT EPISODES.
they should just post the remaining episodes online…true fans will watch!
I really liked H T I looked forward to it each week i only watch the best shows Vampire diaries, The Gates, Supernaturals, Smallville, Moonlight, True Blood Happy Town included thats why I went on line to see what happened you didn’t give people enough time to discover it please put it back on
It is a really great and wonderful show!! I was always on the edge of my seat watching it and was always surprised and upset when it was over!! I wanted it to go on and on!!!
I haven’t even watched happy town yet, but scared to even start, tired of getting interested in a show only to have it pulled, maybe thats part of abc’s problem, pissed off to many people!
You know the Gates is starting to get really good. Maybe ABC will pull it also.