So did anybody see CBS' *The Will*?

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You didn't? Aww. Now you'll probably never be able to see it (barring bitorrent angels), as the show just got canned after only one episode:

"A reality show whose 10 participants vied to be sole heir to the fortune of a 73-year-old rancher, 'The Will' thus joins a handful of other one-shot blunders in TV history.

The most recent was 'South of Sunset,' a CBS detective drama which debuted October 27, 1993, then was never seen again. With a 6.1 rating, that show attracted what was deemed the smallest audience ever for a series premiere on any major network.

For the sake of comparison, 'The Will' got a 2.9 rating."

Ouch.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Double ouch.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I wanna see "South of Sunset"! The mean streets of Pico and Westwood...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

HAW

same people who did "The Bachelor" if I'm not mistaken.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, you know we're all waiting on your show, The Couch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

According to this report, the show got "only" 4.2 million viewers. Apples and oranges, maybe, but a record that sold 4.2 million copies would be considered an out-of-the-box smash (provided it wasn't by an artist who sold twice that the last time around).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"You'll never guess what slips between the cushions this week on...The Couch"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that's definitely apples and oranges -- TV is "free", CDs are not (or maybe that should be "not", considering p2p).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh Trucker Hat Boy, not Weezer AGAIN! Oh!"

Um, xpost.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This seemed pretty fucked-up from the commercials, but not as fucked up as "Who's Your Daddy" which will probably last forever on Fox.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 January 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else remember that one episode of beavis & butthead, where beavis knocks on anderson's door and asks him, "are you gonna die soon?!?"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

who's your daddy was, um, actually i don't know what it was. i'm thinking of going into therapy now because of that show. it was like life on some earth that hasn't been discovered yet....no, that's not it. it was....just wrong. it would have been great if i had watched it stoned.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the will just looked like that other ill-fated show with the goombah family and george hamilton as host where all the butlers stood in judgement.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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