SonOfAStu

According to Fred Goss's myspace blog, the show was cancelled around May 13. I just read about it yesterday. I'm sure most won't care about this (as the ratings showed), but I thought the show was fantastic by the last few (aired) episodes.

pinata242

I stuck with it and began to enjoy it. So many characters to introduce, it took a couple of episodes before you could care. I would have stuck with it for a while longer at least.

mongoco

ABC probably didn't want to cause any confusion with their new show Brothers & Sisters.

Patman

What's next: Siblings?

movieking

This show got a lot better as it went out. There is a thread somewhere that mentioned its cancellation, probably the ABC upfronts one.

mdc3000

I thought it really hit it's stride in the last few episodes, but I was a fan since the start. Too bad in this day and age shows aren't given time to find an audience.

MATT

das Monkey

I enjoyed it, but they really screwed the pooch on the promotion. Associating it with Lorne Michaels wasn't a good idea, nor hammering home the unrehearsed concept, but mostly, the show wasn't really a "ha ha" comedy. It was entertaining, and it was interesting, and there was humor in the situations, but it was rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Promoting it as this groundbreaking new exercise in hilarity killed it before it got off the ground.

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Jimmy James

It also didn't help that the show (perhaps more accurately the network) invited comparisons to Arrested Development. The first couple of episodes were pretty bad (particularly compared to expectations), but I saw improvement before I stopped watching.

Aphex Twin

I loved this show. It was really well-done and had fantastic characters. I hope it gets picked up somewhere.

mrpayroll

I really like Eden Sher's character and hope she finds other work soon, as long as it doesn't conflict with her homework!



Chris

Brent L

Well, I'm let down about this...

Gizmo

Since it wasn't on the Fall schedule announced last week, it was kinda a no brainer.

SonOfAStu

Yeah, cuz networks NEVER start a show mid-season. I mean, it's not like Sons & Daughters premiered in February or anything. [/sarcasm]

Jimmy James

Yeah, and it's not like the networks announce what shows they'll be starting mid-season (SEE: Scrubs, Crossing Jordan, 24, King of Queens).

SonOfAStu

Was flipping through my channel listings the other day and noticed that S&D is going to air on Universal HD starting next Sunday. No new eps or anything, but it will be fun to watch them again anyway.

Gizmo

Cool. I enjoyed the AD ripoff.

ENDContra

^Werent there a couple of episodes unaired too?

Ted The Bug

I freaking LOVED this show.

10 episodes aired, and there's supposedly an 1th unaired episode as well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_&_...(US_TV_series)

Ayre

I don't see how anyone could compare these shows ... if they had watched them. Totally different feel.

Apparently there will not be a DVD. Licensing of the music sent the costs too high. I guess replacing the music would have been to expensive as well.

They would have to sell more copies than there are people who know the show was ever on the air.

mrpayroll

I wonder why they continue to use licensed music that costs too much? I guess they were expecting this show to be a big hit and recoup the costs.

Chris

Ayre

They are still trying to talk the studio into re-mastering with alternate music.

Fred Goss

The theme song has great impact. I can't picture any other music. But I guess some canned rock music would at least get a dvd.

Ted The Bug

You know, I never liked the theme song ("Surrender"), I didn't ever feel that it really captured the tone of the show well at all.

I did, however, love the Grateful Dead piece they used at the start of every episode and would be sad if that wasn't included.

HE Pennypacker

I watched a few episodes of this show and really liked it. This'll prolly make my list of shows that should have never been canned.

monkeyboy

I don't see much to compare to Arressted Development. If anything, it felt a bit like Undeclared or Freaks and Geeks type humor. I knew nothing about this series until I came across it on UPN HD and really liked it. I've only seen 4 or 5 episodes, but I really enjoyed it. It's a smart, witty, funny show. No surprise it's being cancelled.

clckworang

I've started watching this on Universal HD as well, and I also can't see any comparisons to Arrested Development. It's just a totally different tone to me. I've enjoyed watching these eps. I meant to give this show a try when it first aired, but I want to say that it was in a bad timeslot for me or something. Anyway, I've enjoyed it, but I'm not surprised it was cancelled. It seems like shows like this usually are on life support from the time they are premiered.