Granted, this news has probably been a long time in coming, but it's still a bummer:
Men in Trees has been officially canceled after two years of life in Elmo, AK.
Of course, that's two years of airing on three different nights in numerous different time slots, with two long breaks — one when its first season came to an early end, another when ABC decided to save episodes of the show rather than air them during the
writers' strike — in between. Not the easiest way to get a following, that's for sure.
Remember when ABC had a show called
Men in Trees? You can be forgiven if you don't recall. The show has been shuffled around and treated more strangely than most, moving from Fridays to Thursdays and back again, being pulled before the end of its first season, and then finally resurfacing in October — only to leave again in December, despite having plenty of episodes to get through the
writers' strike.
ABC kicks off its new Friday night lineup tonight with the premiere of a new show,
"Women's Murder Club," and the return of an old favorite,
"Men in Trees."
It pains me to recommend a show that airs at the same time as my beloved
"Friday Night Lights," but "Women's Murder Club" is a pretty solid show. It's based on
a series of books by James Patterson, and it centers on a sassy crew of women in various law enforcement roles solving crimes in San Francisco. It's not something I'd watch on a weekly basis, but the cast is appealing, the mystery in the pilot episode was reasonably compelling, and it has a built-in stable of stories to draw from.
Here's a piece of news that will make all the
"Men in Trees" fans in North America wish you lived somewhere else: According to showrunner Jenny Bicks, the five episodes of the show's first season that ABC decided not to air until fall
will be broadcast in some international markets as early as this week. The rest of us will have to wait until late September or early October to see what the folks in Elmo, Alaska, are up to.
But before you North American fans get too upset, here's some other news from Bicks to tide you over:
