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?
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I liked the show. It was never given a chance. I love fox sundays, huge animation domination fan, and I was very pleased when sons of tucson was thrown in the mix. Just confused me when sometimes it was before simpsons, and then sometimes it was after american dad. Keep mixing it up, you will lose followers, the concept was good. It needed time to blossom and maybe some further direction.
Hope to see it again sometime.
How totally LAME was this show? Another ****** program by a ****** network. Good riddance!
This is a funny show. The interplay among the characters is funny, their personalities are distinct, and I would watch repeats of this show over and over again before I would waste time watching some reality show garbage.
It might be too late since this us from back in Spring; the article that us. But please don’t make the same mistake that was made with the Earl” sitcom. This show deserves time to grow.
Cheers
I love this show. Just showing support. Want to see more.
Very Funny, Fox definately doesnt give shows enough time to grow a fan base. Keep this one .
Your right about fox not giving to much time for shows. I just recently got married but drew her into the show. Hey fox: find the time for the show.
Come on FOX bring sons of tucson back that is my number one show because its really interesting come on if the show comes back you should name it “Rons back”, its not bad
its a great show bring it back great comdy, and family show
I just started watching this, I live in Australia and as such I thought perhaps there were more episodes and we were watching them delayed. So i googled it and found that it has been cancelled (or in hiatus). That’s BS, this show is hilarious, it screens on the comedy channel over here and I don’t care about the slot thanks to the PVR in my pay tv box.
Bah, don’t cancel it you fools!!
dont cancel the show its good and start making season two
love it
I think its a great show… its funny.. and just different.. don’t cancel it.. It will do great.. just find the right slot !!
I cant believe that this show is already off the air. Ive been looking for it since I seen one episode and couldn’t find it. Now I know why and I hope it comes back on. I know that I will be watching!
Yea my family loves this show also it just comes on too late
dont cancel more ads this show is the best my family simply loves the show