
These days, every network seems to be developing a comedy niche. NBC has its single-camera, deadpan workplace comedies like
The Office and
30 Rock; CBS has its laugh-tracked, massively appealing Monday night lineup led by Two and a Half Men; Fox has its Sunday night animation block. ABC, though, has been largely left out of the game, gambling with shows like
Cavemen and canceling other series that were wonderfully strange but little-watched (
The Knights of Prosperity).

With "Veronica Mars" now
officially dead — despite a last-ditch
marshmallow and candy campaign by fans — series creator Rob Thomas is moving onto his next project:
ABC's new sitcom "Miss Guided."
The sitcom, which ABC picked up for a mid-season premiere at May's
Upfronts, stars
Judy Greer as a guidance counselor who returns to work at her old high school, only to find that her high school nemesis has also joined the faculty. Thomas will run the show as executive producer.
Thomas also has said that DC Comics is interested in
making the fourth season of "Veronica" into a comic series, and he's still mulling a "Veronica" screenplay, so even though the show is gone from TV, it's long from being forgotten.