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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they say they are a new kind of family abc does,i guess it is true.they only want shows that promote kids to have sex,pop out babys,lie,be hateful and self centered and to do all the drugs you like to be cool.no wonder a good,fun,clean family show like r.a.t.r didnt make it.maybe if ruby had tons of unprotected sex and the boys got wasted all the time and beat the parents then abc cr.paly would of keep the show on.my tv no longer has this junk station on it.when they want to remove a fun clean family show i can watch… Read more »
i hate Abc family for removing it!!! they suuuck!
Bigggg mistake. That was a good clean show which are hard to find these days…but maybe in the future they will have other shows just like Ruby. I am sad to see it go though 🙁
i loved that show so much it was an AWESOME SHOW they should’nt cancel it that was a big mistake because it could’ve earned more after a while but i still wish that they get it back on tv 🙁
Alexa Vega wuz GREAT in this show, she was a kid star and many kids loved this show cuz they could see one of there favorite stars from Spy Kids
ABC made a mistake.2 me 10 things i hate about you is BORING.I keep waiting for something funny too happen. Ruby was great. and i will miss it.
well it goes to show,now days it is all about the fast buck and how to teach kids to be the worst they can.ruby was a clean,fun good show the whole family could watch,but no abc family(yeah right0wants shows about sex,unprotected sex,being rude and dont worry if you pop out a kid mommy and daddy will take care of it go on and have sex all you want.since they took r7the rockets off my tv no longer gets tuned to abc family(a real joke thaT)and my grandkids can not watch it while they are here.abc family will be glad when… Read more »
Oh yeah, ABC screwed up again! Same thing but a NEW year.
I don’t think ABC reads these comments. Their not very smart, canceling Ruby pretty much shows you. I won’t let any of my girls watch any of the NEW shows they have on now. I thought it was a Family Channel! Oh wait we’re talking about ABC they wouldn’t know. Aren’t they in last place. This show had 5 million people watching, one day their going to wish they had that many watching. There’s plenty of cable stations that are glad to get 5 million people watching. Their day will come when everyone is watching My TV, Nick, Disney even… Read more »
no this was my fave show i just had other things to do so i never got time to watch it now that i do have time to watch it i cant cause it got canceled ABC family big mistake.
I don’t think that it should have been canceled because that was my favorite show and I watched it more all the time and I really loved it.
i do not think it should have been cancelled! that was an amazing show. the show was showing what happens between families. sure, its no secret life but at least its kid-appropriate. secret life is just teens having sex and getting pregnant. this show is one of the best shows i ever seen. abc family is making a mistake by cancelling it. its called abc FAMILY for a reason. teens can watch secret life with their parents but i have a family and they love ruby and the rockits. my background is like ruby’s. i didnt know who my father… Read more »
I really liked that show so sad to see it go. 🙁
well i think its sad that they did that, i realy liked the show, and i wanted to find out if jordan finally gets ober his crush, or if they both will start to date, ABC you suck for doing that
i know they shoud bot cancel the show that show was one of my favorite shows and it had lots of viewers
Really? Geeze. No surprise from the major networks. Keep in mind this is the same brainiac network that had “Monk” in their grip, and let it go. wikipedia //Quote//Although ABC originated the show, the network handed it off to the USA Network. USA is now owned by NBC (NBC Universal).[10] Monk was the first ABC Studios-produced show aired on USA Network instead of ABC.//End Quote It was a fun show that brought young viewers in with some old school viewers as well with Cassidy. Nice job ABC. You blew it again. It’s always instant gratification only with you nuts. Season… Read more »