I started watching ‘The Black Donnellys’ and was really enjoying it. The pulled it after 5 or 6 episodes. I won’t be watching ANYTHING on NBC from now on. I am tired of shows being pulled after half a season and replaced with reality TV garbage.
Either Donnellys was a six episode test run (networks do that a lot, buy six and see what happens, either way the show will go away after the six but if the numbers are good it will come back later) or the numbers were bad. I watched about 10 minutes of the first episode but found it way too much of a ripoff of Goodfellas and stopped.
As for NBCs other troubles, Heroes is back and won the 18-49 market again so I don’t think they’re really in as much trouble as people think.