15 TV Shows That Just Got Cancelled

4. Great News

Great News
NBC

It's bad news for any fans of NBC's broadcast news sitcom, which has been canned after two seasons.

The series, which came from 30 Rock's Tracey Wigfield and starred Briga Heelan and Andrea Martin as a mother and daughter working together in TV news, suffered a bit of a sophomore slump in terms of both critical appraisal and ratings, meaning it was always likely to be taken off the air. With just 3m viewers overall, it wasn't great enough to scrape a third season.

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.