No season five for PJ and the guys. As expected, TBS has cancelled My Boys after four seasons on the air.
My Boys revolves around Chicago sports writer PJ Franklin (Jordana Spiro) and her close group of male friends. Castmembers include Jamie Kaler, Jim Gaffigan, Kellee Stewart, Kyle Howard, Michael Bunin, and Reid Scott.
It’s been suspected for awhile that TBS wasn’t going to bring the show back for a fifth season but the cable channel wouldn’t confirm it. Speculation was that TBS execs feared that, by admitting the show was ending without a true series finale, not as many viewers would tune in. As it is, an average of only 784,000 people tuned in to see the last two installments.
That decision ultimately cost Spiro and Howard jobs on new NBC shows, Love Bites and Perfect Couples. They were under contract to TBS and NBC wasn’t willing to risk having to recast and reshoot if the cable channel brought My Boys back. Jim Gaffigan left after last season to focus on his stand-up.
What do you think? Are you satisfied with the way My Boys ended? How would you wrap up the series?
Image courtesy TBS.
I really liked this show. I always had to look for it, and usually watched it on demand, but it was very well written and i loved the actors. I think it would have caught on had it been given more advertisement and a regular time slot. Sad to see it end!
Hi, i’m from latin america, i loveee this show!!! can’t believe it’s over!!
Typical network blunders again. A great great show, well-written, superb acting, real-life situations, everything for a top 10 show. But no network support, promotion, consistency in scheduling. Right up there with SportsNight, American Dreams, Life On Mars, Ellery Queen for the network shooting itself in the foot and losing out. And oh yeah so do us fans…..
It was a great show, I never watched it on TV, only through iTunes so the changing time slots didn’t bother me. I am just sorry to lose another great show built around realistic characters and friendships. There are so many crap shows on filled with violence or that just showcase the worst in people. This was was one that always left a warm glow.
Typical. It seems like the networks want some of their shows to fail. How can you expect any show to survive when you keep changing time slots. What a bunch of morons.
But I guess who needs good quality shows when the networks have their reality crap to spew out to the viewers.
TBS: You suck! You screwed fans of a good show, as well as the very people (actors & writers) who would have made you successful. Spiro & Howard (& the rest of this fantastic cast & writers): You’ll be fine. You deserve better than TBS! I don’t know if using the DVR to record shows counts as “tuning in”, but that was the only way I could ever find out when this show was going to air. Everyone else: Vote with your wallet & boycott TBS! Everybody will get the karma they deserve. I gotta go put my tv on… Read more »
I liked the show from the very beginning but then again, I tend to watch more TBS, TNT and USA Network shows than I do any of the big three. I actually thought My Boys was already canceled THIS year as I could never find it or knew when it was supposed to be on. Thanks to Fios’ Video on Demand though, I was able to catch up on all of this season’s episodes except for the finale. I was actually really beginning to like a lot of the interpersonal relationships the writers and actors were exploring this year –… Read more »
I agree with Danimar the show moved time slots and aired nine episode seasons that is hard to keep up. Doing 13 episodes seasons is the norm on cable and what other original programming does TBS have? I like the show but they never aired enough episodes per season which lead to some odd story lines this past season. I have the show on dvd and it is a funny show, and I thought at least a season 5 was coming because TBS did some decent promoting and that the characters JP and Bobby had backed out of those NBC… Read more »
It’s a darned shame. It was simple, well-acted, written, and fun. It was never pushed (ads for it only aired during episodes) and the only fortunate bit is that they knew early enough to end it with some closure.
I only wish another network would pick it up, or they had decided to air it after Conan later this year. A little pull (read, “any” pull) would have helped.
This show was set up to fail. TBS never aired it regularly, only had a few new episodes at a time, and never bothered to advertise heavily for it when it did finally come back on. Fans of the show had to go searching for it in frustration to find out if and when it would be coming back. It’s a really good show that got the short end of the stick from the network, and as a result, will go unnoticed by most of the “fans” it could have had. What a pity – especially if TBS was crappy… Read more »
loved this show/ sorry to see it go
The fact that the show always had a new date and time slot each season and never lasted more than a few weeks obviously had NOTHING to do with it failing to succeed, did it?
The writting on the show was never as good after about the first 15-18 episodes. Loved this show when it started!!
I kinda had a feeling after watching the finale that it was over. Sad day. With the last episode being called “my men” I had an inkling that this might have last episode written all over it. Sure enough Mike gets married equals end of the show. Great while it lasted though.
Never heard of this show.
Most of the world hasnt heard of this show.
It has a small following but never had the push it needed in order to be a great series.
I was always meaning to watch it but i could never find it.