ABC bringing back 'Better off Ted'

Necro · 05-31-2009, 02:20 AM

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'Surviving Suburbia' can't survive new time slot

ABC is bringing back "Better off Ted" for a summer run, while "Surviving Suburbia" couldn't survive its new time slot.

Alphabet still had six episodes of "Ted" left from its midseason run earlier this year; those segs will now air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. starting June 23, behind new reality competish "The Superstars."

The Victor Fresco-produced laffer, from 20th Century Fox TV, then returns in midseason, where it will be paired with "Scrubs." Alphabet ordered 13 more episodes of "Ted" for next season.

As for "Suburbia," show's remaining segs moved to Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. effective this week but the show's new time period bow averaged just a 1.0 rating and 3 share in the demo.

Starting next week, ABC will instead air back-to-back episodes of new animated comedy "The Goode Family" at 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

The Bob Saget starrer "Suburbia" comes from MRC, as does "Goode Family."

Also in the ABC scheduling realm, Alphabet will start airing its remaining original episodes of another recently axed comedy, "Samantha Who," next month. "Samantha" will run Thursdays at 8 p.m. starting June 25, paired at first with ABC's final episodes of "In the Motherhood."

Once the last three episodes of "Motherhood" are run, ABC will pair the "Samantha" originals at 8 with repeats at 8:30.

Source: Variety

What is Better Off Ted about?

Code · 05-31-2009, 02:47 AM

Bam, Wikipedia.

The show is a satirical office comedy that focuses on Ted, the head of Research and Development at Veridian Dynamics. Veridian Dynamics is a large unscrupulous multinational corporation that values profits over morals. Ted is a single parent of a 7-year-old girl, Rose. At work, he oversees two research scientists Lem and Phil, and a head tester Linda, for whom he has romantic feelings. His boss is Veronica, an emotionless and conscience-free woman with whom he once had an affair. After the company cryonically freezes one of the research scientists, Ted begins to question the company's objectives and morals.

Throughout the show, Ted breaks the fourth wall by giving monologues to the camera to narrate his own life and explain the show's events.

Each episode has an advertisement for Veridian Dynamics which involves that show's topic, such as diversity, food, and family. The advertisements are comically out of touch, making contradicting statements or having non-sequiturs.

Also, has anyone else noticed that since the writer's strike, just about every show sucks? And any good show that I enjoy gets axed. Damn NBC got rid of "Life" on me... bastards.

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