After two episodes, The CW has canceled Ashton Kutcher's scripted drama "The Beautiful Life."
Wednesday's episode was seen by just 1 million viewers and generated a 0.5 rating in the adult demo.
via THR.
And the Renew/Cancel Index hasn't even begun!
No word on what will air in The Beautiful Life's timeslot, but the CW has used the last few Sundays to air repeats, and that option is no longer available since it's no longer programming Sunday nights on a network basis.
Update: Melrose Place repeats will air in TBL's timeslot for now.
This greatly disappoints me. I wanted to see how low it would go next week.
But I guess this means the season really has begun!
Already?! Wow, that’s weird.
I wonder if the networks will ever get so impatient, they’ll cancel the show while the pilot is still airing! XD
Not surprised by this. It was a bad show, the ratings were even worse. I wonder what they’re going to air in its place.
Lol?
Wow that was quick. A lot quicker than I expected. Looks like Beautiful Life joins, Head Cases, Smith, Online Nation, and Do Not Disturb as the first to be axed for the season.
That was a fast cancellation even by CW standards, I wouldn’t be surprised if Vampire Diaries repeats fill the slot until Life UneXpected is ready.
Haha so much for the CW doesn’t cancel shows fast, like someone else posted. This show stunk anyway, glad it’s gone.
I’m going to guess the CW will go with repeats in the short term. They used the last two Sundays to air repeats, but that’s not an option any longer since the CW no longer programs Sunday nights on a network basis.
Not surprising at all.
The CW doesn’t have much backup programs, so I read Melrose Place repeats could fill the hole. An extremely unlikely scenario would be moving Smallville to this spot.
Bill – Maybe The CW will replace it with Vampire Diaries/Melrose Place repeats. And they still have Blonde Charity Mafia and Fly Girls. They can go from now until ANTM ends and air either series in its entirety.
Jon, it’s a very fast cancellation *particularly* by CW standards. In the two years we have been running this site they haven’t cancelled a single show early like that.
SNAP! That was fast and swift…
Another option is to bring Smallville back but then The CW would lose viewers having a completely repeat friday. With The Beautiful Life axed its almost 100% that The Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place will both get full seasons.
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I think the docusoaps will replace ANTM when it’s on hiatus, Vampire Diaries still more logical as the ratings for Melrose Place are bad and are likely to be bad in repeats.
The CW never cancels shows like this. I have a feeling they decided to cancel it so they could show repeats of the terrible Melrose Place to boost ratings. (Which won’t work) kinda like they did with 90210 last year when that aired repeats after Next Top Model.
It’s a fickle audience CW targets. Hard to nail exactly what females 12-34 want to watch consistently. Looks like the need to put vampires in ALL the CW shows.
Bill, the earliest in the past few years was FOX’s Do Not Disturb which was axed on September 26, 2008 nearly exactly a year ago.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Now if they’d thrown Dawn out with the show too. Maybe they should try getting the Game back before BET closes the deal.
Jon – yeah but Vampire or Melrose repeats for 9 more weeks in that slot? I would have thought TBL wouldve gotten another week but this is the earliest The CW has ever cancelled a series. The latest was last year’s entire sunday lineup.