NBC has removed freshman comedy Twenty Good Years from its schedule after the John Lithgow - Jeffery Tambor sitcom received tepid ratings.

The news came (by omission) yesterday as NBC issued a press release announcing a Thursday night realignment, including moving 30 Rock to the new night.

According to the Hollywood Reporter the network has “no immediate plans” for the show to return, but the original 13-episode order is still being produced. NBC could use the show as a mid-season replacement.

CBS’ Smith didn’t even have a chance! And it looked like a show with promise, especially considering it starred Amy Smart in what looked like a promising role.

TV Guide’s Matt Roush apparently saw the cancellation coming a mile away:

I’m not terribly surprised. Though there was some buzz for the show and its very expensive (I heard $6 million at least) pilot, plus its starry cast (someone sign Simon Baker up for another show now!), Smith always struck me as an empty version of a Sopranos or a Shield, to name two distinguished shows with criminals as protagonists. The characters on Smith just felt hollow to me, giving us little reason to care or to root for or against them.

Anyway, this show should have debuted last season with NBC’s Heist and the other robbery shows that were apparently the going theme.

NBC’s Kidnapped has been cancelled. The network told the show to finish their initial order of 13 episodes and then shut down production:

The trade publication quoted sources as saying that NBC and producer Sony Pictures TV have agreed to wrap up the story line about a wealthy family, headed by Timothy Hutton and Dana Delany, whose teenage son is abducted.

The show attracted 7.6 million viewers for the series premiere and then 6.3 million for the second episode.
But don’t worry, kidnapping fans, because Vanished and Runaway are both still on the air — for now.

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