No doubt about it — there’ll be no Doubt on the TV schedule any longer. CBS has cancelled the Katherine Heigl legal drama after two episodes, reports TVLine. Instead in the time slot, the network will air a rerun of Bull next Wednesday and the second season of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, starting March 8.
Doubt had enjoyed much hype among the midseason offerings, and had been the replacement for the short-lived medical drama Code Black. But, like a supposedly delicious low-fat cookie, it failed to whet the appetite. Just 5.31 million U.S. viewers tuned in for the premiere, followed by four million the next week.
Doubt also starred James Wolk, Adrianne Palicki, Jon Voight and Laverne Cox — the latter was the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character on a broadcast series.
“I’m an avid TV watcher, and there are people in my community who watch a lot of TV,” Cox said at a meeting of the Television Critics Association last year.
“Growing up, I did not see people like me on television. That folks can have a character like Cameron, who is Ivy-League educated, it’s wonderful. And to be a black transgender woman in that position on CBS is really special.”
Doubt was reportedly heavily reworked and recast during production, with Heigl replacing KaDee Strickland (Private Practice), in the role of a lawyer who becomes romantically involved with a client.
Heigl’s previous series, NBC’s State of Affairs, was cancelled in May after 13 episodes. The former Grey’s Anatomy actress will star in the film Unforgettable, out in April, and lend her voice to the animated comedy The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, set for August.
Bob’s Burgers album on the way
You know what apparently does whet some viewers’ appetites? Bob’s Burgers. The Emmy-winning animated Fox comedy, now in its seventh season, will release The Bob’s Burgers Music Album on May 12.
The record will feature 112 songs of varying lengths, reports Rolling Stone, with many sung by the family at the core of the show, the Belchers.
Released on the indie label Sub Pop, it boasts music from St. Vincent, The National and Stephin Merritt. Aziz Ansari (who voices a character on the show), Paul Rudd, Will Forte, Jordan Peele and Chris Parnell also lend their voices.
At the end of the disc are bonus songs from the Bob’s Buskers series, in which musicians performed tunes from the show for promotional clips.
Bob’s Burgers stars H. Jon Benjamin as patriarch Bob, John Roberts as his wife Linda, and Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal as their kids. Despite less-than-stellar ratings, it has become a cult favourite and has been renewed for an eighth season.
