Runaway Run Off
It's a fall of firsts for the CW: Its first season, its first shows, and, now, its first casualty.
Runaway, the barely watched thriller series starring Donnie Wahlberg, is off the schedule, and is said to be out of production. In short, all signs point to the Big C: Canceled.
Come Sunday, an America's Next Top Model repeat will fill the 9-10 p.m. time slot.
Last week, Runaway was the least watched show on any of the five English-language broadcast networks. Airing on Sunday for the first time, its 1.8 million viewers barely outdid an hours' worth of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reruns on cable's Nick at Nite.
Before getting the hook, Runaway aired a total of three times, averaging 2 million viewers. Runaway joins CBS' Smith in the first circle of hell, limbo. This weekend, NBC's on-its-way-out Kidnapped begins burning off its remaining episodes in the fifth circle of hell, Saturday night.
At the other end of the spectrum, four new shows to date have received full-season pickups: ABC's Ugly Betty and Brothers & Sisters, CBS' Jericho and NBC's Heroes.
Premiering on Sept. 25, Runaway was the CW's first CW show in that it wasn't an import from UPN and the WB. The Girlfriends spinoff, The Game, which debuted Oct. 1, is the only other brand-new show on the brand-new network.
Runaway, sort of The Fugitive, if Dr. Richard Kimble had brought along the not-dead wife and kids, seemed an odd pairing on Mondays, and later Sundays, with 7th Heaven, sort of The Waltons, if everybody was better looking in a soap-opera way.
Ratingswise, 7th Heaven didn't do Runaway any favors by running low on gas itself. So far this fall, 7th Heaven is averaging 3.9 million viewers, down 26 percent from last fall when it aired on the WB.






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