Last week, FOX made the decision to pull their new Sunday night sitcom, Sons of Tucson, after just four airings. Several sites have reported that the show has been cancelled but in truth, it’s on hiatus.
Sons of Tucson follows a sporting goods store clerk (Tyler Labine) who lives in his car. He’s hired by three boys (Benjamin Stockham, Frank Dolce, and Matthew Levy) to play their father for a school meeting after their real dad goes to jail for banking fraud. In case of future emergencies, he moves into their tool shed. The series also features Sarayu Rao, Edwin Habacon, and Natalie Martinez.
When it debuted last month, the ratings for Sons of Tucson weren’t good and pretty much got worse every week. That’s not a surprise to those behind the show since they believe it was airing in the wrong timeslot.
A spokesman for the show said, “FOX bought Sons of Tucson in the hope of resurrecting the genre for the network and hoped to eventually build out a live action comedy block night. They looked to Justin Berfield and the [Malcolm in the Middle] creative team to do just this.”
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“They bought the show to put on at 8:30pm and despite initial audience testing results reporting against it, the network top brass decided to put Sons of Tucson on much later at 9:30pm, which draws a much different, less family audience. How does a family show do during a non-family hour? Well… not good.”
With such disappointing ratings, it’s no surprise that the network has pulled it from the schedule. Labine has signed on to another sitcom for CBS but Sons of Tucson is in first position. If FOX decides to renew it, he’ll be obligated to return to Tucson.
The series is scheduled to return on June 6th at 7:30pm. Unfortunately, that’s not a great timeslot either but it’s at least a little more appropriate for the show. If the series is to be renewed, it has an uphill battle — especially since most outlets are reporting that it’s already been cancelled and it won’t return from hiatus until after FOX has already announced its 2010-11 schedule.
Berfield isn’t ready to give up the series and insists that the series just needs time to grow and even offered to donate half his producer fee to charity if the show is renewed for season two.
Though the show hasn’t been officially cancelled, it looks like Sons of Tucson is going to need some serious charity (and ratings) to get renewed.
What do you think? Do you think the show has a realistic chance at being renewed for season two?
Image courtesy FOX.
Great show, sure hope it gets renewed!
Man this show had some serious potential, it’s unfortunate that it has been put on Hiatus. I for one think it deserved a little more time.
bring back sons of tucson waaahhhhhh
If you can’t put it on Sunday then move it, just don’t take it away =[
NOOOOOO don’t cancel Sons of Tucson it’s hilarioussss, I was so sad it wasn’t on tonight I went online to see what was up with that?! Bring it baccckkk cmonnnn
This show is SOOO good. I cant believe Fox. I have lost all faith in them and live comedy. My family really like this show. Good on Justin for standing up for the show! Impressive.
I love this show! I was so disappointed when they canceled Reaper. Please don’t cancel Sons of Tucson. I was looking forward to seeing it tonight. 🙁
My boys are so sad that the show wasn’t on tonight. Why in the world would a network put a family show on at 930 at night? This show is so good! My boys were sad. Sounds quite odd….but its the truth. We miss the SONS of tucson.
seems a great shame to pull the plug so quickly on such a promising show. I can’t remember the last time Fox had a live action comedy that was as good as this one.
My family will be watching in June.
BRING THIS SHOW BACK FOX. What are you thinking? This is the funniest show our family has seen since Malcolm. Its so good! I’m losing faith in Fox and live comedy. This just confirms it.
Was surprised it made it 4 episodes in that slot. Fox has tried to find something else that works on Sunday besides the Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad and everytime they do they end up going back to the previous line up. Maybe someone over at Fox should take the hint and see that the animation domination line up works fine?
I believe it’s had it. They’ll air the eps already in the can & it’ll be history. That’s Fox’s normal course.
I LOVE SONS OF TUCSON AND WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING IT TONIGHT!!!!!!
How sad that a hilarious show has to be put on “hiatus”…
Oh my gosh…finally someone gets it right. Thanks you TV Series Finale for getting the truth instead of feeding into the rumors, it is very much appreciated. The show deserves a season two simply because being pulled so early it never got a chance to grow its viewers, the earlier time slot , while not the 8:30pm it was originally suppose to have, is going to be worlds better for it than the 9:30pm slot behind all the animation shows.
SOT is gr8.