After almost two months since the start of the 2015-16 broadcast season, the first official cancellation has come in.
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ABC officially cancelled their new series Wicked City after airing only three episodes on Friday (November 13), according to Deadline.
Shark Tank reruns will take its place starting Tuesday (10 p.m. ET/PT) and production of the low-rated drama will conclude after the Episode 8, which is shooting now.
The first season focuses on two L.A. detectives (Jeremy Sisto, Gabriel Luna) as they search for a pair of romantically-linked serial killers (Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen) terrorizing the Sunset Strip in 1982. It’s most recent episode saw a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic, marking the lowest rating for any show on the four major networks this fall. There’s no word on whether the five unaired episodes will be aired.
Produced in-house by ABC Studios and Mandeville Television, the drama from Steven Baigelman and showrunner Amy Harris (The Carrie Diaries) becomes the first official series to be canceled and outright removed from the schedule. With at least a couple of those shows slated to go off the schedule in the new year anyway, the networks to let them play out rather than swing the ax right away. The latter would essentially set up the replacement series for failure as it takes time (and money) to market a series and build an awareness/audience amid a crowded landscape.
A broadcast network has finally canceled a new show this season: Wicked City is no more. Between this and the reduced episode order for Chace Crawford’s Blood and Oil, clearly ABC is bad luck for the guys of Gossip Girl.
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Even by this fall’s lower-than-ever standards, Wicked City was bombing in the ratings.
