Posted on 05/10/2019 2:24:40 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Breaking news, and it’s not good: CBS has cancelled the revival of Murphy Brown after one season, TVLine has learned.
Candice Bergen returned to the title role that won her five Emmys during the show’s original 1988-98 CBS run, with series creator Diane English back as showrunner. The revival also brought back original cast members Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana), Faith Ford (Corky Sherwood) and Grant Shaud (Miles Silverberg), and added Jake McDorman as Murphy’s son Avery — now a reporter for the rival Wolf network — Tyne Daly as bar owner Phyllis and Nik Dodani as social media whiz Pat.
But after debuting to a 1.1 demo rating, Murphy went fractional just three weeks in. Over its 13-episode revival run, which wrapped up in December, it averaged a 0.84 in the demo — ranking last among CBS’ eight sitcoms — and 6.1 million total viewers, where it outdrew Fam, Man With a Plan and Happy Together. (The veteran cast surely didn’t come cheap, either, so CBS couldn’t be happy to keep shelling out big bucks for its lowest-rated comedy.)
The Eye network has also axed sitcom Life in Pieces after four seasons, along with freshman comedies Happy Together and Fam.
TVLine’s Renewal Scorecard has been updated to reflect the news. Will you miss Murphy taking shots at Donald Trump? Share your reaction to the cancellation in a comment below.
I’m surprised they can get anyone to watch their PC crap.
Breaks my heart
Dan Quayle’s too
Dan Quayle nailed it.
But it seemed like such a great idea at the time. /s
I watched one episode to see what they were going to do and it was horrible. The cast had not aged well and it was just an out of date show that was way too left.
They could have made it funny and fun to watch, but instead they made it all about “orange man bad”.
Even the original murphy brown wasn’t that good, sure it had “funny” clips but those few clips on youtube was pretty much it of funny memorable parts
They can bring Candice Bergen back as a female Matlock.
Whew...I can say I haven’t seen it in either incarnation. And since it’s so far down on my dial, I never even came across it by mistake.
I take it that it wasn’t very good.
When I heard that Hilary was making a Cameo Appearance on that show, I figured it wouldn’t last long. No surprises!
Murphy, We Hardly Knew Ye!
Yeah, that’s too bad.
Not.
But they renewed that Conners crap.
Trump wins again.
I never watched it the first time and didn’t watch it the second time around.
Who knows? Maybe it’ll be like “Moonlighting”, a show I disliked back in the mid to late 80’s - but kinda learned to like when it was in re-runs.
Diane and Candice devoted full time to offending half the potential audience, not a surprise it didn’t work. The original shows were much more focused on comedy and less on cheap politicking.
Another left winger drowns in her left wing bs!
People don’t like a show about fake news.
“Good” never entered the picture. CB was older, not wiser. The woman has not aged well AT ALL.
One episode is all the stomach could handle, my cringe factor got a work out to the point of exhaustion.
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