What Were the First TV Shows Canceled Each Season?
This gallery was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for the new TV season.
They're usually not the worst (though, with a few notable exceptions, they're almost never among the best). And they aren't necessarily the most derivative or least interesting, nor are they lacking in talent. What they are, for a variety of reasons, is unwatched ... and thus extremely short-lived. We're talking about the fall TV season's first cancellations.
Like in 2016, this year's first cancelation came a bit later than normal—in early November. And, once again, it was not the season's lowest-scoring show that got the axe. How many canceled shows can you remember from past years? Find out in our brief look back at the last 18 years of television infamy ...
(2012) Another quickly hooked series—also gone after just 2 episodes—was this CBS legal drama starring Janet Montgomery as a Jersey girl from a working-class Italian-American family who gets a job at a prestigious New York law firm. Critics found the accents and the series as a whole fairly ridiculous, though the neither Italian nor American Montgomery went on to slightly more success in WGN's Salem.
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