ABC will cut its TV programming ahead of next week’s premiere.
The network canceled the first year of the show Alaska Daily and You maintain the company and Big Sky, ran for three seasons. Here are ABC’s first cancellations of the season; fellow drama a million little things and Comedy The Goldbergs announced their ending early .
Big Sky, creator David E. Kelley was great on ABC’s first season, but It did not perform well in the ensuing years. The show’s third season, subtitled Deadly Trails, aired on Shortest episode, 7 days Nielsen ratings drop by about 78 % of total audience (from 5.65 million to 4 .85 million) and 18 Adult Percentage 17 -20 (from 0.6 to 0.5).
Alaska Daily , starring Hilary Swank as a man trying to rebuild his career in name career journalist with the most viewers of any medium watched three canceled shows with 5.3 million viewers in 7 days – but also the second lowest ratings (0.18 ) on any ABC drama for adults 18-41 Important for Advertisers demographic data. The Company You Keep, starring This Is Us alumni Milo Ventimiglia, never after American Idol Sunday night points, average 3. million viewers and 0.4 ratings 13-18 Demo.
Alaska Daily and The Company You Keep are both sponsored by ABC’s Disney Brothers 20 TV; Big Sky is a co-production of 41th TV and A+E Studios.
ABC has yet to make a decision on four series – The Conners, Home Economics, Not Dead Yet and Rookie: FBI — and has six pilots (four dramas and two comedies) Scramble for this 1235256766-41 season. Decisions on the projects are due next week, and sources said the Disney-owned network is still in talks with producers as well as the various outside studios behind many of the shows. ABC is expected to announce its fall schedule Tuesday morning. What’s unclear is whether the network’s fall schedule will largely ignore the potential fallout from the Writers Guild of America strike (like CBS has done. That ) or taking the shutdown into account would be more in line with NBC’s main strike slate .
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Additional reporting by Lesley Goldberg.
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