Mark, all the networks have trouble starting up new shows except CBS. The thing is, networks never give shows a chance to succeed and gain an audience especially ABC. I know they are the worst and i hope they stop cancelling shows. Still mad they cancelled Samantha Who which does do better than Better Off Ted.

And Shows like Greys Anatomy and Desperate Housewives can easily last another 10 years. Look at ER which lasted 15 years on NBC.

i think abc has more of a problem in finding shows that can immediately perform as well as their well established shows.

Americans laugh at Two and a Half Men and Seinfeld reruns.

i personally really like BOT a lot (especially the commercials) but i wouldn´t say that it is a concept that everybody has to like.

i just hope that the show at least survives another full season thanks to cheap production.

Oh and NBC’s got Talent and ABC’s got nothing? Wait until the Fall when NBC struggles to get a 2.0 18-49 rating and ABC has Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Private Practice, Brothers and Sisters, and who can forget how good Greys Anatomy does.

cant believe how some people watch 1 episode and determine how good it can be. people are such retards. u gotta give a show a chance, then if u still dont like it, then dont watch it!

daniel, the Cylon breakdancing was on last week’s show. You can probably find it on Youtube.

It probably needs a more grounded format as well, America tends to never like a show that is off the wall and live action, I can only think of one that has been accepted(Scrubs) and Srubs has never been a huge hit…Until last year According to Jim has had higher ratings every season.

If they tone down Ted and turn it more into Newsradio/Less Than Perfect…it could probably make it another Season or 2….Less Ted talking to the Camera and The funny comercials(that I like)but confuse the normal viewers…while the show.

I would give Ted a competitor that constantly one ups him(John Cho would be perfect for the roll)

Josh, give BOT another chance. Has greatly improved over pilot.

Wow, most of NBC’s regular season shows don’t get the ratings AGT does.

The network has picked up Fox TV Studios’ 13-episode adventure drama starring Ron Livingston.

The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC, hails from familiar ABC auspices: creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an exec producer on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty,” and exec producer Michael Edelstein, former exec producer of the network’s “Desperate Housewives.”

“Gravity,” whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.

The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.

“Gravity” is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year, along with “Mental” and “Persons Unknown.” It is the second after “Mental” to land a U.S. distributor and the first to go somewhere other than a Fox-affiliated network.

“Since we originally pitched “Gravity” to the international marketplace as ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ in space, getting the series on the network that has ‘Grey’s’ and makes the most successful sci-fi show on TV in ‘Lost’ is a good fit,” FtvS executive vp David Madden said. He describes the show as “having a sci-fi premise but being told in a female-friendly way.”

At ABC, the deal was championed by senior vp Quinn Taylor, who added acquisitions to his longform duties during the network’s recent executive restructuring.

FtvS is in advanced talks with cable networks for “Persons,” with a sale expected during the next couple of weeks.

Unlike “Persons” and “Mental,” which were existing pilot scripts at FtvS originally developed for other networks, “Gravity” was developed specifically for the company’s international producing model.

“We’re excited about being pioneers in doing television a different way,” said Edelstein, who got the ball rolling on the project more than three years ago when he caught a repeat of the BBC docu-drama “Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets” on Discovery Channel, about an international crew of astronauts on a trip through space.

He acquired the rights to it from British producer Impossible Pictures and approached Parriott, with whom he worked on ABC’s drama “Threat Matrix.”

If “Gravity” goes well on ABC and FtvS’ foreign broadcast partners, the two hope to do more seasons of the show.

“I have the first three seasons blocked out, and I know the ending of the series,” Parriott said.