"Day Break" Canceled

Rather than give us the rest of the episodes in the series, ABC has opted to play reruns of "George Lopez" and "According to Jim" in the midseason slot originally designated for Taye Diggs' mini-series. DAY BREAK was only scheduled for a couple of months, and the show's official FAQ says:

Q: Will Hopper make it to tomorrow by the end of this season?
A: Yes.

Apparently, now, it's no. The show was just here to fill in for LOST while it was on hiatus. A mere 13 weeks, that's all. Then, ABC announced LOST would move to 10pm in its effort to regain lost viewers to CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS (with the incomprable Mandy Patinkin). It's a good show -- I watched regularly, and videotaped Patinkin's show to watch immediately after. Now, I'm going to have to wait until ABC posts the remaining episodes online, then watch them over my not-fast-enough web connection, which will take me about two hours to watch each 40-something-minute episode. Argh.

So MINDS overtook both the powerhouse that was LOST and the excitement that was/is DAY BREAK. It's too bad they couldn't even give us the rest of the order ... what, seven or eight more episodes? Execs must be terrified. Nothing is doing well in this slot. They're now betting on two half-hour comedies to spice things up after the New Year.

Plus, I'd found another TV girlfriend in Victoria Pratt to add to my collection (Pompeo, Paulson, and now Pratt). Funny, my crush in grade school's last name started with a "P" too.

And, not that I was watching anyway, Shatner's new SHOW ME THE MONEY has been pulled too... just after ABC last week ordered six new episodes. Talk about a %$#@-tease.