Chasing Drew Carey


iconWading through the fanfare following the Friends finale, several other shows are making a quiet exit. Kelsey Grammar is hanging it up after playing Frasier for an astounding 20 years. And Drew Carey is making such a stealthy exit, ABC won't even put it on TV until this summer.

That the show still exists at all for its ninth season has more to do with a classically bad business deal than any sense viewers want to see it. [...]

By the middle of last season, ABC took it off the air, and burned off many of the show's episodes during the summer.

ABC didn't even bother putting it on this season. New episodes will premiere on June 2, and the network will show two first-run episodes a week during the summer - the television equivalent of an afterthought. [...]

[Director Sam] Simon jokes that he asked ABC to speed things up by running the season's episodes in split screen, showing two in one half-hour.

The AP notes that the bottom fell out on viewership, but as a former viewer I'm inclined to believe most of that was caused by bad management.
[Viewers] may simply have tired of trying to find "The Drew Carey Show." The program premiered on Wednesday nights, an evening where it has inhabited four separate time slots. It's also been shown regularly on Tuesdays. And Thursdays. And Fridays. And Mondays.
The new season for Drew, starts in June.



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