While there appears to be hope looming on the horizon for an imminent resolution to the three-month long deadlock between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, there doesn't seem to be any such positive outlook for ABC's Big Shots.  The freshman series was canned in December, with three episodes still left for broadcast.

Big Shots co-star, Michael Vartan, who played James Auster on the cancelled program, recently commented on his former big-screen co-star, Jennifer Lopez's pregnancy.  Lopez clearly made a good and lasting impression on the actor, with whom she shared the spotlight in the film, Monster-in-Law.

ABC's Big Shots hasn't exactly become a hit with viewers and critics, but show star Joshua Malina is still hopeful that the dramedy will be renewed for a second season.

“It's a hot topic among the four of us. I'm doing an ABC promo shoot. I take that as hopeful,” Malina told TV Guide.  “We're having so much fun together, it would be a shame to end.  If I'm going to work, I'm going to laugh.”

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To be fair, no one on the BuddyTV writing staff made it past the pilot episode of this show. In light of that, Big Shots making our list is an impressive achievement, because while other shows had entire seasons worth of suckiness, Big Shots crammed it all into one episode.

Actress Nia Long has been in the entertainment industry for more than two decades, which has been more than enough time for her to realize that show business is an unpredictable environment.

“No matter how long you've been in it, there is no security,” Long said in the December issue of Essence Magazine, with the discussion revolving around being in-between jobs.

Christopher Titus has been doing stand-up comedy since he was 18 years old, but the Big Shots star admits that he still gets pretty nervous when he is up on stage.

"‘Jitters' is the nice word for it.  It's more like anal-wrenching fear," the 43-year-old actor told the Pasadena-Star News.  "But the audience is the perfect measure.  You get some comedians that say, ‘Hey, they just didn't get it.'  Well, maybe they got it and you just weren't that funny.  I never, ever blame an audience."

Big Shots has been put out of its misery.  The new series from ABC about four men (Christopher Titus, Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan and Joshua Malina) and their lady woes has been pulled from the air by ABC, with three new episodes remaining in the tank.  The series received poor reviews out of the gate, and the viewing audience wasn't much kinder.  Big Shots could realistically be described as a Sex and the City for men, but Big Shots didn't pop like the HBO comedy, nor even come close.  The fact that ABC has decided to pull the three remaining episodes off the air during the writers' strike is a massive indictment of the network's lack of faith in the series.  The series, which followed Grey's Anatomy on Thursday nights, will, for the time being, be replaced by reruns of Grey's spin-off Private Practice.