# First TV show to be cancelled after 9/25/2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517 "2014-09-25T13:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/81 "2014-10-10T20:15:34Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I’ve been seeing commercials for some piece of shit called Cristela or something like that for the last few weeks, I think it begins tonight. Hopefully it’s canceled by breakfast, as it looks like the most awful generic 90’s style sitcom ever, BUT WITH HISPANICS! Haw haw haw, how novel! Somewhere George Lopez is rolling in his grave. What’s that? George Lopez isn’t dead? Just his career? Oh. It’s got Fluffy in it, so I’m giving it a chance. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/82 "2014-10-10T20:28:23Z")
Once its cancelled, he’ll eat to soothe himself and become “DAMN!” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/83 "2014-10-10T20:31:19Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I’ve been seeing commercials for some piece of shit called Cristela or something like that for the last few weeks, I think it begins tonight. Hopefully it’s canceled by breakfast, as it looks like the most awful generic 90’s style sitcom ever, BUT WITH HISPANICS! Haw haw haw, how novel! Somewhere George Lopez is rolling in his grave. What’s that? George Lopez isn’t dead? Just his career? Oh. At the upfronts ABC previewed that, Black’ish, and there’s even one about an Asian family coming out mid-season I think. They’re really trying to get ALL of the demograpics under their tent. Black-ish is good though, and just got picked up for a full season. The other two don’t look promising though. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/84 "2014-10-10T21:10:24Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > At the upfronts ABC previewed that, Black’ish, and there’s even one about an Asian family coming out mid-season I think. They’re really trying to get ALL of the demograpics under their tent. > > Black-ish is good though, and just got picked up for a full season. The other two don’t look promising though. I haven’t watched Black-ish, but the commercials actually make it look like it could potentially be funny, and that’s it’s made in a modern sort of way. Cristela just looks like something that could have run on the WB for half a season. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/85 "2014-10-10T21:15:15Z")
The actress who plays the title character in _Jane the Virgin_ was on Letterman the other night. Egad, she was a complete airhead. She was all over the place, mentally. That and the premise suggests a short run for the show. (It starts the 13th if you want to MST3K it.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/86 "2014-10-10T21:29:28Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > The actress who plays the title character in _Jane the Virgin_ was on Letterman the other night. Egad, she was a complete airhead. She was all over the place, mentally. > > That and the premise suggests a short run for the show. (It starts the 13th if you want to MST3K it.) Yeah, this one has “Huh??” written all over it. Here’s the premise of this comedy/drama: > [@](#): > > Set in Miami, the series will detail the surprising and unforeseen events that take place in the life of Jane Villanueva, a hard-working, religious young Latina woman whose family tradition and a vow to save her virginity until her marriage to a detective is shattered when a doctor mistakenly artificially inseminates her during a checkup. And to make matters worse, the biological donor is a married man, a former playboy and cancer survivor who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works, but was also her former teenage crush. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/87 "2014-10-10T22:11:19Z")
Is this where ‘suspension of disbelief’ comes in? > [@](#): > > when a doctor mistakenly artificially inseminates her during a checkup. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/88 "2014-10-10T22:21:22Z")
Jane the Virgin is a remake of a popular Venezuelan telenovela, Juana la Virgen, which explains the crazy premise. They are hoping for the next Ugly Betty. I looked up the original on Wikipedia and learned that (surprisingly) the complete series aired between March 2002 and October 2002. The number of episodes? 153! It makes the US television industry look positively British by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/89 "2014-10-10T22:50:29Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I looked up the original on Wikipedia and learned that (surprisingly) the complete series aired between March 2002 and October 2002. The number of episodes? 153! It makes the US television industry look positively British by comparison. It’s a soap opera. I would assume that American soap operas also aired roughly 150 episodes between March and October of 2002. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/90 "2014-10-11T00:19:34Z")
CBS has cancelled “Unforgettable” and “Reckless”, whatever those were. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/91 "2014-10-11T00:51:55Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > CBS has cancelled “Unforgettable” and “Reckless”, whatever those were. **[Unforgettable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgettable_(2011_TV_series))**, like **Dallas** , was in its third season, so it’s out of the running; this is actually the second time Unforgettable has been canceled. **[Reckless](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless_(TV_series)#Episodes)** was a summer series, so I think that one’s out too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/92 "2014-10-11T01:17:38Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > **[Unforgettable](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgettable_(2011_TV_series))**, like **Dallas** , was in its third season, so it’s out of the running; this is actually the second time Unforgettable has been canceled. You’d think I would’ve remembered that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/93 "2014-10-11T02:32:00Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > You’d think I would’ve remembered that. I’m so glad _Unforgettable_ was cancelled. I could _maybe_ buy the premise that she had a perfect memory that she could rewind on demand…but there is no way in hell her eyes could_focus_ on every single thing she ever saw at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/94 "2014-10-12T20:05:47Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I’ve been seeing commercials for some piece of shit called Cristela or something like that for the last few weeks, I think it begins tonight. . Out of sheer boredom, I watched this on the network website. It’s crap. Stolen jokes, stale stereotypes, bad acting, bad writing, totally predictable, utter crap. Don’t waste your time. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/95 "2014-10-13T02:47:15Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Out of sheer boredom, I watched this on the network website. It’s crap. Stolen jokes, stale stereotypes, bad acting, bad writing, totally predictable, utter crap. Don’t waste your time. And _Variety_ says it was the highest rated show on Friday night. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/96 "2014-10-13T15:34:04Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Is this where ‘suspension of disbelief’ comes in? He tripped. Oops. > [@randwill](#): > > CBS has cancelled “Unforgettable” and “Reckless”, whatever those were. For some reason I thought that Unforgettable had been cancelled already and they were just airing the episodes already in the can. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/97 "2014-10-13T21:58:12Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > For some reason I thought that Unforgettable had been cancelled already and they were just airing the episodes already in the can. As mentioned, this is its second cancellation. After the first season, it was canceled despite doing quite well in the _Good Wife_ time slot as a summer replacement. Then CBS discovered that the other stuff they had was worse so they brought it back. But the show made some changes. New secondary cast members, new crime unit setting, etc. It wasn’t the same. Story threads just … went missing. What about the Fed Carrie was dating? The writing for most of the third season was particularly bad. The two leads are at some major event, the murder of the week happens right there! Then recycle it in more episodes. I hate that kind of stuff. The current cancellation was announced on Oct. 10th. They did air two episodes on the last Sunday night before the return of\* The Good Wife\*. Watched a second episode of _Bad Judge_. Yeah, this is dead meat. Told **Mrs. FtG** the van was going to explode. Then on cue … ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/98 "2014-10-13T23:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The main shows I’m avoiding buying for fear that they won’t be airing when my campaigns start are “Mysteries of Laura” and “Mulaney”. As much as I love John Mulaney,I’m hearing bad things about the show and I don’t think he’ll be able to lure viewers. I see where, last night, Fox aired a new episode of THE SIMPSONS as the lead-in for a new episode of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, because of course they did. I see where that was followed by a last-season FAMILY GUY rerun as the lead-in for a new episode of MULANEY, because – wait, does that mean what I think it means? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/99 "2014-10-13T23:18:10Z")
yeah, pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/100 "2014-10-13T23:37:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > As mentioned, this is its second cancellation. After the first season, it was canceled despite doing quite well in the _Good Wife_ time slot as a summer replacement. Then CBS discovered that the other stuff they had was worse so they brought it back. Sorry, missed that. It lost me in the first season. Just too much disbelief to suspend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517.md?page=6)