NBC has pulled Michael J. Fox’s freshman sitcom The Michael J. Fox Show from its schedule, replacing it with Jane Lynch’sHollywood Game Night once the Olympics are over. The most recent episode of struggling comedy pulled in just 2.2 million viewers and a 0.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demo. Just last week, NBC shut down production on Sean Hayes’ freshman comedy Sean Saves the World, which aired immediately after Fox’s show on Thursday nights.
Last summer, NBC was so confident in Fox’s show, his first regular TV gig since Spin City in 2000, that they immediately picked it up to series, bypassing the standard pilot process.
The Michael J. Fox Show’s cancellation shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given NBC boss Robert Greenblatt’s recent comments about its performance, as well as Sean Saves the World, saying, “We’re really unhappy we can’t find an audience for them in those time periods. We’re still going to work hard to see what we can do on Thursday nights, but it’s a real uphill battle.”
In the meantime, Michael J Fox will be returning to a more successful role, reprising his popular character on CBS’s hit series The Good Wife. Fox will appear in multiple episodes but an exact number was not released. Fox has recurred on The Good Wife since 2010. He’s scored three Emmy nominations for his role and was last seen in season four’s “The Seven Day Rule.”
While typically an adversary of Alicia, Fox’s character has tried to woo her away from Lockhart/Gardner for some time. Now that Alicia’s started her own firm, will they find themselves on the same side?
