When we recently started codifying the concept of the Friday Night TV Murder Pile—the Hollywood trend that sees TV networks dump the news that they’re canceling modestly performing “bubble” shows in the last hours before the weekend, presumably to cut down on the shouting—it was mostly as a joke. “Certainly,” we thought at the time, “The networks won’t continue to kill series at this particular time of week, every week, so consistently that we’d have to keep doing this.” Anyway, CBS killed... Read this story
