Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip has been cancelled.

[TheWraith]

For those who haven't heard yet: Aaron Sorkin's latest series, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, has been cancelled by NBC. Apparently they didn't even want to wait until after they aired the last 6 episodes, which start on Thursday the 24th, at 10 PM.

Damn, and damn again. For all the complaining the critics did about it, I loved that show. It was smart, funny, dramatic, and it had some of the best writing I've seen since The West Wing ended. Not to mention the cast, which was simply phenomenal: D.L. Hughley and Nate Corddry, in particular, really wowed me as a great comic duo.

So we lose it, and we get another season of Survivor. Ironic, then, that the first episode of Studio 60 started off with the despondent head honco of the show-within-a-show (played to the hilt by Judd Hirsch) hijacking the live broadcast and making a career-ending speech about how television was being dumbed down to appeal to the lowest forms of human interest.

[Yukari Yakumo]

1. Odd...

I heard nothing of it being canceled outright like you said. However, it is not coming back next year, that part we do know. Here's a list of NBC series not returning next year:

20 GOOD YEARS
ANDY BARKER, P.I.
BLACK DONNELLYS
CROSSING JORDAN
GREASE: YOU'RE THE ONE I WANT
IDENTITY
KIDNAPPED
RAINES
REAL WEDDING CRASHERS
STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP
THANK GOD YOU'RE HERE

[Mojambo]

3. Andy Barker, RIP.

Another one in the bin for poor Andy Richter...

I kinda got a few chuckles out of that Wedding Crashers show the one time I watched it.

[PVnRT]

2. Eh

It was enjoyable, but the whole love story angle was starting to get tiresome already. I think it would have been better for them to focus on being a behind-the-scenes-of-SNL comedy instead of focusing on who's swooning over whom.