Posted on 11/21/2012 6:29:37 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Who's the boss? Not Kelsey Grammer.
Starz television network has decided not to give Grammer another term as mayor of Chicago.
The cable network said Tuesday that it was canceling the drama "Boss" after two seasons.
The show premiered to critical acclaim, starring Grammer as tyrannical Chicago mayor Tom Kane. The role earned Grammer a Golden Globe for best actor in a drama earlier this year.
Starz says in a statement that although the network is proud of the show, it has "made the difficult decision to not proceed with `Boss."' The move was a flip-flop for Starz, which renewed the show for a second season even before its first season began.
"Boss" also stars Martin Donovan, Connie Nielsen and Kathleen Robertson. Farhad Safinia is the show's creator and executive producer.
Grammer's rep said the star had no comment on the show's cancelation, but earlier this year, Grammer complained to Jay Leno on the "Tonight Show" that being a Republican could have cost him, and hence the show, a prestigious Emmy nod.
“Now explain something to me, you get a Golden Globe for ‘Boss,’ but you don’t even get an Emmy nomination,” Leno asked.
“Yeah, its hard to figure,” Grammer said. “It may have to do with several things, honestly, but I think it’s possible, I mean, I am a, I’m a declared out of the closet Republican in Hollywood.”
Light applause rippled through the audience and Leno emitted a comic gasp.
“Do I believe it’s possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, ‘Yeah, that’s a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?’”
Grammer asked hypothetically, before answering with sarcasm: “I don’t believe that’s possible.”
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That’s right. Rahm did a cameo on Chicago Fire but cannot condone anything that smacks of precisely the corruption that is Chicago.
I thought the same thing this morning.
Also, remember that Kelsey Grammer is a CONSERVATIVE and was a target for the Hollywood Left.
KGB
I really enjoyed that show, and I’m disappointed that it was cancelled.
This show was awesome!! What a bunch of idiots for canceling it!!
The Cancellation was due to NOBODY watching the show. The show received less than 500,000 people. That is atrocious. However, if you feel better thinking it was political, I guess it will help you sleep at night. The reason was it bombed. Kelsey is lucky to have had 2 years.
It is about money.
How many people even subscribe to STARZ at this point? In this economy, with so many online options, pay cable channels are one of the primary things people have cut back.
No they were BRILLIANT to cancel it. The networks are in it to make money not to show something that nobody watches. They are NOT charity cases.
The season two premiere had 317,000 viewers, which was less than half of the 659,000 viewers who watched the series premiere. With encores that same night, the ratings rose to 509,000 viewers. Over the weekend, the season premiere pulled in 915,000 viewers, just under the 1.1 million average in the first season.[34]
The low ratings was the main reason the show was canceled.
Geeez...a Maryland RINO! Give me a break, you only speak to hear your own idiocy, and then only in between crabcake farts.
That still is a decent amount of viewers considering the fragmenting audience and that it’s a pay movie channel. I’ve watched every episode to date and it is a disappointment to hear it’s been canned, especially when they left it hanging with the finale and it deserved a third season to resolve everything. I think it comes way too close to the truth of how things are done in Chicago. One big problem why it doesn’t have a great amount of appeal is that virtually all of the characters are just horrible people, corrupted by whatever they’re involved in. People like characters to root for and there really isn’t anybody for whom you can.
Good series. Too bad it got axed.
I read that they ‘might’ conclude the lose ends with a made-for movie. However, that is ‘iffy’ at this point.
How cute. No matter what you say, your stupid show still got cancelled. HAHAHAHA! It sure is a Happy Thanksgiving!
Same thing happened to ‘The Chicago Code’ from Fox. Great little on location cop show that revealed all to well and easily how politics, graft and corruption infest everything in a one party city.
Could also add and argue that the third, fourth and fifth seasons of HBO’s ‘The Wire’ wrote the series’ swan song.
Revealing how mostly black, inner city Democrat politics work in Baltimore. And the throughout the state once the cops started following the drug money after Carcetti became Mayor.
‘The Wire’’s fourth season, that shone light on Baltimore’s education system didn’t do the state any favors, either.
I thought Chicago Code was the best crime show on. No hocus pocus super computer CSI crap. I knew it wouldn’t last as it depicted a corrupt black alderman as the head crime boss. Way to close to home for Cook County politics.
Can’t compare “Chicago Code” to The Wire. The Wire is in my opinion the best series ever filmed. Better then the Sopranos or The Shield which I believe are classic. Chicago Codes actors all looked like movie stars . It wasn’t believable. I’m in Chicago and we have hot woman here but they’re not cops or fireman. The only female cops I see have fat asses and are of questionable sexuality.
True, shotgun.
But Delroy Lindo did openly, unabashed corrupt so well as Alderman Gibbons!
Reminded me a lot of Isiah Whitlock’s State Senator ‘Clay’ Davis (”Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*ttt!”) from ‘The Wire’.
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