# Which new shows will tank first?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 19, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-new-shows-will-tank-first/82514 "2001-09-19T02:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-new-shows-will-tank-first/82514/1 "2001-09-19T02:34:02Z")

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This is a game I like to play every fall: I collect the fall preview tv guide issues, and look every week to see which shows fail first. Not that I remember last year’s(though I was right about the one with that Kramer guy from Sienfield being one of the first to circle the drain.) order. Grab your TV guide (or go to [http://www.tvguide.com](http://www.tvguide.com)) to play.

In my opinion, this season’s hot contenders for the tv version of the darwin award are:

Off Centre  
UC: Undercover  
Emeril  
Bob Patterson  
Scrubs (which would be ok by me since Donald Fasion is cutting back on Felicity because of it)  
The Tick (because life isn’t fair and I’m a realist)  
Danny  
The Guardian  
Philly(though I might watch it.)

Of course, all the reality shows will do well because most people like insanely boring stuff like that. Most stuff on the WB and UPN will be safe because…they’re on the WB and UPN.

So, what are your picks in the race to the finish?

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**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-new-shows-will-tank-first/82514/2 "2001-09-19T02:58:19Z")

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**andygirl** beat you to the punch with her thread ( [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88096](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=88096) ).

The title is slightly misleading, but she’s taking bets on which shows will die early as well as which shows will survive.

Wolf Lake is a goner!  
Pasadina is a goner (Friday Night on Fox is a burial ground and plus it’s a prime time soap. Since Melrose bit the dust, soaps after eight only exist on Univision)