FOX pulls 'Lone Star,' schedules the return of 'Lie to Me'
Con-man drama becomes the fall's first casualty
Adrianne Palicki, James Wolk and Eloise Mumford of 'Lone Star'
Credit: FOX
The writing has been on the wall since a dismal premiere last Monday, but FOX has officially pulled "Lone Star" from its schedule, making the Texas drama the fall's first series casualty.
FOX has scheduled the return of "Lie to Me" for Monday, Oct. 4 taking the Monday 9 p.m. slot formerly occupied by "Lone Star," marking the end of the line for the fall's best reviewed network pilot.
The news is disappointing for the show's few fans, but hardly surprising. "Lone Star" was an out-of-the-box failure, drawing only 4.1 million viewers and a 1.3 rating in the key 18-49 demographic last week. With creator Kyle Killen leading a blogger campaign, "Lone Star" got a second airing this week and slipped to 3.2 million viewers and a 1.0 demographic rating.
While those numbers obviously don't take DVR usage into consideration, they're so low that even a massive DVR bump and heavily online viewership wouldn't make any difference.
HitFix reached out to FOX to find out if the network is using the "c"-word (cancelled) and we were told that at this point in time, all that was being said was that the show was being replaced by "Lie to Me." HitFix also asked about the fate of unaired episodes and we were only told that five episodes had been completed, two aired.
For now, we can only tout the return of "Lie to Me," which FOX calls "the No. 1 broadcast drama of the summer." The show had been previously scheduled to return on Wednesday nights at some point in the fall. It's likely FOX will keep "Hell's Kitchen" in its current two-hour format for as long as possible in the interim.
A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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Login or create a HitFix account Login SignupJohn W
September 28, 2010 at 6:28PM EST Reply to CommentYay! I win the pool! Woohoo! Way to go FOX I knew I could count on you!
Khoa
September 28, 2010 at 6:33PM EST Reply to CommentARGHHH. Glee boycott time? What are the chances AMC or another legit network picks this up?
velocityknown Very low. This show failed hard. I don't think even cable shows would want that kind of ratings mess.
September 28, 2010 at 6:37PM ESTJason 3M is roughly what "Mad Men" draws, so it's not out of the question.
September 28, 2010 at 7:06PM ESTBut I think cable would rather not pick up broadcast leftovers. More likely it would go the "Friday Night Lights" route and end up on DirecTV or something.
katie, a princess
September 28, 2010 at 6:38PM EST Reply to CommentI kinda found Adrianne unbearable, so I'm not surprised. Sorry, fans.
JC
September 28, 2010 at 6:58PM EST Reply to CommentWow. I knew it wasn't long for this world after seeing yesterday's ratings, but 2 episodes?! Crash and burn...glad I decided not to bother watching it.
If only I had done the same for The Event :-( I give that show 6 episodes, tops.
loosmi
September 29, 2010 at 6:53PM EST Reply to CommentI swear, I know it's judging a book by it's cover, but this show never had a chance with me and I think it's all because of the promo images.
Every single thing I've seen about this show has that main character with this smirk on his face just looking like the biggest d-bag in the universe. In the video promos too.
I've seen this sentiment expressed elsewhere too so I know it's not just me