8 Actors Who Knew Their TV Show Was Doomed On Day 1

Cut down after just one season in March of this year, NBC's Ordinary Joe getting cancelled not long after its first 13-episodes trickled onto the network didn't actually come as too much of a surprise to one of the show's stars, as it goes.

According to Charlie Barnett, who plays Joe's best friend Eric Payne as the former embarks on three parallel journeys on the back of opting for three entirely different routes when faced with a life-altering choice post-graduation, the actor himself admitted to Digital Spy that he "fought against it at first, going into it" due to not being "sure that it was obtainable."

Confessing that the story itself "gets really, really, really confusing", the Eric thespian's fears of his programme being a little too difficult to execute to the point of roping in a sizeable network audience ultimately came true later down the road, with the actor eventually declaring that it was always going to be a challenge to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu with a show this "complicated" and he was "not necessarily surprised to see it dead."