Sad news for fans of Ashton Kutcher‘s new primetime drama The Beautiful Life: TBL … all 3 of you. The CW has decided to cancel the series after airing only 2 eps. Plagued by poor ratings from the start, the drama which stars Mischa Barton didn’t really have a chance. And so, we raise our plastic utensils and give a hearty Peace the Spork Out to The Beautiful Life: TBL:
The new fall season has claimed its first casualty with the cancellation of “The Beautiful Life: TBL”. Although 13 episodes have been ordered for the first season, The CW on Friday, September 25 confirmed that it has opted to pull the plug on the Ashton Kutcher-produced drama series after airing only two episodes. The show chronicling the lives of young models in the fast lane has been pulled off the schedule effective immediately. Production of the show has been shut down. Despite the fact that the series has been filmed to its seventh episode, the network has no plans to air any of the remaining finished episodes. The cancellation news didn’t come in as a shock since “Beautiful Life” had a poor rating right from the start. The September 16 premiere only managed to draw in 1.4 million viewers, and this Wednesday, September 23, episode barely scraped above 1 million viewers. To make it worse, the latter one generated a 0.5 rating in the adult demo. There is yet word on what will fill the 9 P.M. Wednesday time period. Announcement for a replacement is expected to come from The CW at least by Monday, September 28. Rumor has it, the network, which recently picked up “Fly Girls” and a Tinsley Mortimer docusoap, may replace it with reruns of “Melrose Place”.
Actually, The CW sent out a press release late yesterday announcing that “encores” of new Melrose Place eps that air on Tuesday night will reair on Wednesday nights, in the time slot that was allotted for TBL. To be honest, I never watched the show so I don’t know if it sucked or not personally … but I haven’t read a good thing about it. HMMM … I wonder if Mischa, who has been a bit of trainwreck this Summer knows about the cancellation yet. After the jump, check out a couple of new photos of Ms. Barton out and about in public yesterday before news of her show’s cancellation was announced — it’s not a pretty sight …
Yeesh! If she’s was lookin’ this bad before she was unemployed I’d hate to see what she looks like after. I do hope the poor lamb doesn’t suffer another breakdown or anything. Ah well … goodbye Beautiful Life … I suppose life cannot be beautiful all the time.
[Photo credit: Big! Pictures; Source]
Omg. She is a wreck.
Is she wearing a Pink Floyd shirt?
I’ll be honest I kind of liked the show it was entertaining at least, I almost didn’t watch it because Mischa Barton was in it…I haven’t like her since the OC I like how she left the OC to do movies….look how well that turned out for her
She looks like a bag lady.. I saw part of the first episode because it happened to be on while I was in the living room. Not good. The drama felt so forced and in your face. Mischa is not a good actress at all either so that didn’t really help. The only story line that seemed possibly interesting was the kid from Iowa moving to the city (cough Ashton cough). Not sad to see it go.
The show I think should have at least gotten a chance : (
I really like Sara Paxton’s character and that Iowa kid. Oh well…
is it just me or does sarah paxton look and sound just like alexis bledel? that bothers me because i’m not sure if i’m the only one who sees it lol
i think the world would be better off without chicks like her and lindsay lohan. why is everyone interested in these wrecks??
I saw her appearance on the Alexa MTV show and her voice is trashed. Was it always like that? I remember her voice being a bit softer. She sounded like a man on Alexa.
ok i get the show wasnt great, but the second episdoe was better then the first. i think if they gave it a chance, the show might have been able to go somewhere. im surprised they gave up so quick.
@ally. she does look like her
Awww I liked the show,sucked they wont even play the other eps already filmed :( …and I like Micha, but jeez she does look scarey in those pics.
I actually kinda liked the show – except for Mischa Barton. She looked old, she’s too thick and short to even remotely be a model much less a supermodel. Seriously have you ever seen a successful model with thick thighs? And her acting is atrocious. I was going to quit watching because of her – I guess the CW took care of that for me.
I only watched once, but was surprised by how well Elle McPherson acted and how much I liked her and how terrible and unbelievable Mischa was.
I only saw the first episode. it was okay. nothing all that catchy about it. I only liked sarah’s character and the other kid she was supposed to fall for. whatever
There’s a fan petition going around trying to save the show. Please sign!
http://www.petitiononline.com/.....ition.html
is she high or were the pics taken mid blink
@Robin, it’s called Rubber-Necking like when people can’t help but stop and stare at car accidents; same concept w/ those foolish broads.
it was a horrible show, with terrible acting and contrived storylines
boooo i would have hoped they would at least have given it a chance…
Oh my gosh what happened to her???! She is unrecognizable from the O.C. days