I confess in the case of Blonde Charity Mafia, I thought CW had made that decision long, long ago. But I guess no reality show cancellation before the show even airs is ever officially official until the cast has received an e-mail saying the show's not going to air on the CW, which according to the Washington Post's Lisa De Moraes is exactly what happened:
Participants in the much-ballyhooed reality series about Washington do-gooder celebutants got the bad news in an e-mail Tuesday from "BCM" producers: "We just heard from the CW that they have officially decided not to air BCM. They have been very supportive and complimentary of the project, but they now have two other shows that are 'home grown' that they are choosing to air instead," said the e-mail, a copy of which was obtained by The TV Column.
BCM also said they are shopping the show to two other networks, and you have to figure if that doesn't happen, some web video site will wind up buying it on the cheap.
Meanwhile Comedy Central confirmed that it would not be renewing The Jeff Dunham Show for a second season. Dunham still has a deal with Comedy Central though and is expected to produce another special that would air on Comedy Central in late 2010.
Now remember kids, this is why when a network exec says, “We love the show so much that we want to save it for later!” you should never believe them.
Why would they cancel Dunham? Didn’t he have great ratings in the premiere? Was the drop off that great? Or did he just get greedy? Color me confused…
Jeremy, I don’t have a lot of data for Dunham beyond average viewers, but there the dropoff from the premiere (~5.3 million) was significant. Recent episodes have all been under 2 million, with some under 1.5 million. Still not “bad” by Comedy Central standards and money certainly could’ve been an issue whether greed was or not.
I wish we had some good explanation on Dunham’s cancelation. The show’s funny. I thought it would last!!!
This show airs on MTV Australia, so I wonder if MTV US will pick it up?
Why they dont just burn off the episodes and put it instead of some repeats!! so dumb!!!
CW’s Senior Vice President Paul McGuire said that ”The show is still in development at the CW, and no final decision has been made,But you know that decision will probably be made this month, I’m just not sure when.”
here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Not-so-fast_-_Blonde-Charity-Mafia_-fate-still-in-limbo-8660095-79352182.html
Like GEORGE 11, I’m too puzzled that The CW is not burning off ‘Blonde Charity Mafia’ over the holidays. They had an atrocious week last week averaging 0.3 in A18-49 with their repeats tieing the tiny ION network, and they fell behind ION in households and P2+ viewers.
That’s the first time ever going back to August 1998 that ION, i or PAX has beaten either of The CW, UPN or The WB in the weekly Nielsens.
The only broadcast network that The CW surpassed last week was the Spanish-language Azteca network.
The CW decided not to pick up Body Politic, but instead picked up a watered down, VH1 reality trash version of it?
It sounds like a stupid show anyway, so I dont think we’re missing out on anything! However I agree with everyone else, the CW needs to be airing original episodes of shows, even bad ones. They do not get good enough ratings to be airing week after week of repeats! Instead of the stupid VD week they should have just aired all their remaining epi’s of the beautiful Life and if shows like the one above have episodes already completed or in production they should just burn them off as mini-series! This has got to be the most poorly organised network I have ever heard of! Stop coming up with lame concepts for shows for that matter too!
I don’t remember where
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I don’t remember where I read it, but I believe Jeff Dunham was cancelled over the lower rated Tosh.O because of the cost.
I tried watching the Jeff Dunham show and it was just not funny at all.
@ RJ, actually by the end of the run, Dunham and Tosh.0 were getting the same ratings, so it makes sense to cancel Dunham.
From THRFeed:
Even near the end of his run, Dunham still earned a higher average rating than fellow Comedy Central series newcomer Daniel Tosh, whose series “Tosh .0″ scored a 25-episode second season renewal. The difference is the cost of production (and to some degree, critical reception.)
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/12/comedy-central-no-plans-to-renew-jeff-dunham.html
I’ve never heard of either of these programs.
What was BCM really about? I’d take the one in the middle.
I LOVE the CW and usually watch whatever they have scheduled. But the CW network, as a whole, needs to get it together before theirs no CW network at all. The much hyped Melrose Place never got off the ground. Maybe because the demographic they are trying to reach never heard of the show before the revamped version premiered. Plus the original Melrose Place was never a No.1 show to begin with.
I agree with all of the other posters, should have run it instead of repeating every show on the network countless times.
Will Blond Charity Mafia pull a Surving Surburbia and end up on another network?
People! It is a show with puppets. PUPPETS!
I thought Mencia was as bad as the Chappell hangover would get, but puppets?
Earth to Viacom! Renew the contracts of your franchise shows at Comedy Central and then promptly fire absolutely all of the brass there!