ABC Family has decided to pass on ordering a second season of its freshman sitcom, Ruby & the Rockits.
In Ruby & the Rockits, former teen icon Patrick Gallagher (Patrick Cassidy) has been living quietly with his wife (Katie A. Keane) and their two sons, teenage Jordan (Austin Butler) and sarcastic preteen Ben (Kurt Doss).
Things change when Patrick’s former band-mate brother, David (David Cassidy), shows up with David’s previously unknown teenage daughter, Ruby (Alexa Vega). David doesn’t want to give up his show-biz life and leans on his brother to help raise his daughter, who’s a rising star on her own.
The show debuted on July 21st to 1.6 million viewers and 654,000 in the 18-49 demographic, making Ruby the second best sitcom launch in the network’s history. It even built out of the audience of fellow freshman comedy 10 Things I Hate About You.
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Unfortunately, those numbers didn’t hold up and the sitcom lost steam in the following weeks. While the network has renewed 10 Things for another 10 episodes, ABC Family has decided to dump Ruby after one short season.
The final episode is scheduled to air on Tuesday, September 22nd. In the episode, titled “Smells like Teen Drama,” Jordan and Ruby compete for the attention of the same girl. Privileged’s Lucy Hale guest stars as Ruby’s best friend and Jordan’s new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Ben is being bullied at school. David and Patrick want him to fight back while his mother has a very different point of view.
What do you think? Should the show have been cancelled or did ABC Family make a mistake?
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PLEASE BRING IT BACK! THIS IS A HUGE MISTAKE!
BRING IT Back!
This was my favorite show! why is it cancelled? thats retarded! BRING IT BACK!
Come on! Bring the show back! I love it!!!!!!
I figured it would be starting soon, so i searched to see what i would find…
and i found this… >:(
WHAT THE HECK?????
THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!!!
Way to ruin it for me abc family— by the way.. your channel is CRAP! i hate ALL OF YOUR SHOWS NOW! First you take away Kyle xy, and now this??? WTF!
Way to loose a lot of viewers what a mistake!
ruby and the rockits was awesome you shouldn’thave cancelled it
HOW COULD THEY CANCEL THAT SHOW???????????????
ITS MY FAVORITE SHOW EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no!!
they should not cancel it
that show is totally great !!
is really hilarious
🙁 plz don`t cancel the show
plz!!
thats bull im from ireland and it did not even come over here and every week i used watch it who ever uploaded it.i loved that show its so mean………i was looking forward ta the next
I think it was totally stupid to cancel that show. It’s a hilarious show. And if it brought in so much money, what the hell are they thinking by cancelling it?
I am so sad to hear that ABC have cancelled Ruby and the Rockits. I live in the Uk and have not been so lucky as see an episode but was hoping that when I heard that it was so popular that hopefully it would be shown in the Uk.
I would love a family show that all the family can watch, certainly not many in the Uk are like that.
Such sad news.
Will the first series come out on DVD and will it work on british machines !!!!
I would love it to come back, but doesn’t look like what we say will do that. Since that is the case, will there be a dvd coming out for this fantastic show that I miss!! I would buy it!!
what the heck there stupid for canceling ruby & the rockist becuz its a good relize a lot of things they should cancel greek that show is really boring so when make it or breakit is over i turn off the tv
i am really mad that they canceled this show. it made me lol. it was so cute! <3! and they canceled roommates 2. ugh. all the good shows get canceled. huh.
This so totally sucked and was a last desperate attempt by all the characters, including Alexa Vega, to hold onto some type of “stardom” while in reality they just dont have that “star power” to stay relevant. Way to ABC! I was sick of the annoying episode preview commercials anyway.
What the heck were you thinking! Ruby…. was the best show on earth. Whoever did it is retarted!!!!!!!!!