Sometimes a television show fails so spectacularly that it gets canceled after just one airing. This shameful group contains such forgettable embarrassments as
Quarterlife,
Emily's Reasons Why Not,
Anchorwoman, and
The Will. We can now add one more series to this list, as CBS has announced that they're yanking
Secret Talents of the Stars from the air after one broadcast. The show aired Tuesday night at 10pm in
Jericho's old time slot, but it didn't prove to be a successful replacement for the post-apocalyptic drama. The reality competition pulled in only 4.6 million viewers, forcing CBS to send it to the scrap heap.
Your Take
KathyW said:
I could have told them if would flop, but they never asked me. LOL. Jericho did MUCH better that this cra...
racergoil089 said:
CBS is totally nuts! (i just had to use that word lol) They cancel a great show like Jericho, replace it wi...
mpbnice said:
It's incredible to me how short sighted the programming dept at CBS is. Jericho not only brought in twice t...
In case you missed
Secret Talents of the Stars, and you probably did, it featured such "stars" as
George Takei,
Danny Bonaduce, and
Ben Stein, among others. The idea behind the show, as the title makes obvious, was to have these stars reveal their secret talents. On Tuesday's show, Takei tried his hand at singing country music, R&B singer
Mya tap danced, figure skater
Sasha Cohen performed with an Chinese acrobat troupe, and country singer
Clint Black performed a stand-up routine. Somehow, America resisted the overwhelming urge to tune in.
Considering that CBS is the home of
Big Brother, they're no strangers to trashy reality television. However, it is a bit sad that they recently canceled
Jericho and replaced it with a show featuring a juggling Sheila E.
Jericho undoubtedly cost a lot more to produce, and certainly didn't pull in a spectacular number of viewers, but at least it was respectable. There's nothing respectable about
Marla Maples doing a gymnastics routine.
Now that
Secret Talents of the Stars has gone the way of
The Rich List, CBS will fill the Tuesday at 10pm hour with installments of
48 Hours Mystery for the next couple weeks. Beginning on April 29, new episodes of
Shark will air in that time slot.
- Don Williams, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
(Image courtesy of CBS)