It's the end of the road for several ABC series. The network on Thursday canceled American Crime, Dr. Ken, Imaginary Mary, Secrets and Lies, The Catch and The Real O'Neals. Drama American Crime, John Ridley's critically praised anthology, represented a key awards season player for ABC. While critics raved about the Felicity Huffman starrer, viewers turned the other way. The April 30 season three finale drew just a 0.4 in the adults 18-49 demo. Season to date with seven days of DVR, American Crime averages just 3.4 million total viewers and a 0.8 in the demo. Meanwhile, Huffman has booked the lead in ABC comedy pilot Libby and Malcolm, from Black-ish showrunner Kenya Barris. For his part, Ridley recently launched Showtime civil rights event series Guerrilla. Sophomore multicam Dr. Ken was ostensibly the only comedy to work with Tim Allen's longtime Friday multicam Last Man Standing, which also was just canceled by the network after six seasons. The Ken Jeong vehicle, which hailed from ABC Studios and Sony Pictures Television, averaged 5.3 million viewers and a less-compelling 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 in live-plus-7 tallies. But the show essentially lived and died by what it lured to its time slot. DVR tune-in was nominal and watercooler conversation was, frankly, nonexistent. Sources note producers did not even pitch a third season to the network. Also from Sony TV was first-year comedy Imaginary Mary. Despite hailing from creator Adam F. Goldberg (of The Goldbergs), the half-hour suffered in the Tuesday 9:30 p.m. Slot worse than The Real O'Neals. Early live-plus-7 averages, before including the show's subsequent dips, have it only averaging a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 4.5 million viewers. However, the news came hours after ABC handed out a two-season renewal for The Goldbergs. That's another swing and a miss for sitcom veteran Jenna Elfman. Imaginary Mary is now her third one-and-done Big Four sitcom in five seasons. Secrets and Lies, the Juliette Lewis anthology from ABC Studios, was originally renewed for a summer 2016 run after the murder mystery broke out during a May 2015 run on Sundays. The series, however, was left off ABC's 2016 midseason schedule and instead held for a fall run under ABC Entertainment Group president Channing Dungey, who helped develop the drama. Unfortunately, the series was off the air too long and fizzled, drawing only a 1.4 in the demo and 5.2 million total viewers — down considerably from its freshman outing.
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