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Life's Not So Beautiful For CW's Supermodel Show
By Brent Furdyk, Editor, TV Week | Sep 29, 2009
After only two disastrously low-rated episodes, The CW has pulled the plug on the Ashton Kutcher-produced drama "The Beautiful Life: TBL." I'm guessing nobody will even notice.
Last week's episode drew less than a million viewers. Heck, even "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which is plummeting like a rock as the clock ticks closer toward the end of their 15 minutes of fame, had more viewers.
Cancelling a show after two episodes is kind of like the reverse of Sally Field's famous Oscar speech: "You don't like me — you really don't like me."
And since we're still only a couple of weeks into the new season, "TBL" will soon be joined by several other losers on the discard heap. The next likely candidate — Fox's "Brothers," a laughless comedy that tanked in its debut, and NBC's "Trauma," a godawful orgy of exploding helicopters and crashing cars masquerading as a medical show.
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JMHO
Well, for me, pretty much anything on The CW (what kind of name is that for a television network???) falls into the "You don't like me - you really don't like me" category. It's all so shallow, I keep scraping my ankles on the bottom of the pool! But I think Trauma will last til the end of the season ... there's enough action to keep people interested; now they just need to add a little more gore and it will soon find its audience. :)
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