ABC Family Cancels ’10 Things I Hate About You’
The news broke via twitter Thursday evening that ABC Family’s 10 things has been canceled. And the fans are not taking this news lying down! A simple search for the #save10things hash-tag shows hundreds upon hundreds of tweets. Not enough to make a tending topic (yet) but I fully expect it to happen.
With this in mind, we’ve created a Save 10 Things Website at http://save10things.sds.me/.
It sounds like the decision was primarily made in response to lower than expected ratings. Which means that a sizable fan campaign has a reasonable chance of convincing the company to continue to invest in the show. So spread the word, and do it quickly! We need as many people as possible to write and call Disney and politely ask them to renew the show.
Hitflix Reports:
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteThe creative team behind ABC Family’s well-regarded “10 Things I Hate About You” has been told that the comedy will not be renewed for a second season.
As so often happens these days, the news was initially reported first-hand via Twitter.
Early Thursday (April 29) afternoon, series creator Carter Covington tweeted, “Sad news… ABCFamily canceled the show
Thanks 2 our AMAZING fans – U R the reason I do this! Enjoy the last 5 eps – they’re fantastic!”
ABC Family sources confirm Covington’s tweet that these will be the last five “10 Things I Hate About You” episodes, with the series finale currently set for the end of May.
“10 Things I Hate About You” premiered last year and was loosely based on the 1999 feature of the same title. That feature was, in turn, based loosely on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.”
The second half of the first season returned in late March and although the series premiere broke ABC Family records last July, ratings for the new run were such that Covington had been instigating a Save Our Show campaign, also on Twitter.
The half-hour, single-camera comedy stars Larry Miller, Lindsey Shaw, Meaghan Martin, Ethan Peck, Dana Davis and Nicholas Braun.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:37 pm
How can they cancel a show that has such a huge following? It makes no sense. Everyone, help keep it on the air!
May 26th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
but it just started! i just got hooked along with millions of other viewers! you cant just take it away from us! thats just mean. if u have power to take it away, please dont be a jerk, put it back. or some other channel is going to buy it because they realize what it is worth. plus everyone watches it online, so ofcourse your not going to think a lot of people watch it beacuse its all online…but we’re the technilogical generation….we’re good at the whole computers-thing, so thats how we do it. plus who can watch tv on a monday night? we watch it online when we can. please dont cancel the show!
July 12th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
we need to save the show, plan another save 1o things day we need one!!!!