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Jonathan Ames, the creator of the recently canceled HBO series “Bored to Death,” invited local fans to join him at a Boerum Hill bar Wednesday in its memory.

For producers of underperforming television shows, this is the scariest time of the year -- and it's got nothing to do with Halloween specials. By now, the glow of premiere season has long since worn off, and shows we couldn't wait to see just a few short months ago are in serious danger of getting the hook.

ABC says its revamped version of the 1970s hit "Charlie's Angels" is being shut down after only four airings because of low ratings.

Ratings premiered low and then dropped each week; just 3.4M viewers, 1.2 rating in adult demo last night

While daytime classics “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” are still due to get the axe on ABC in the not-too-distant future, the weekday dramas are far from over.

MTV said Thursday that racy teen dram "Skins" will not be returning for a second season in the U.S., due to dwindling ratings for the American version of the popular U.K. show.

"AMW" isn't gone for good. Fox will air four, two-hour specials throughout the year, in addition to repeats.

Buzzed-about pilot will not rope a spot on network's fall schedule; Don Johnson's ''Mann's World'' also rejected

Fox News Channel has terminated the contracts of paid contributors and potential 2012 candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, a spokesman for the network confirmed to CNN. Contracts for the former House Speaker and former Pennsylvania senator were suspended until May 1 while they considered runs for the White House in 2012. Santorum, who will appear in Thursday's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, has since formed a presidential exploratory committee....

Both episodes were low-rated... I understand that NBC's new brass was "reluctant" but felt the network "had to replace" Reiser with The Office repeats.