The Michael J Fox Show is CANCELLED

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-cancels-michael-j-fox-677629

I guess in stark contrast to the ads promoting his new show; He DON'T "Still Got It".

I hope he goes back to The Good Wife. He was great on that show.

I think Michael J. Fox has still got it- that show just wasn't the best vehicle for him. Hopefully he can find another show to work on or maybe do another movie.

Sort of sad about this, because I did not feel his program was that bad. it could have been easily tweeked to have made it much better.

This is what I would have done..................

Made it a lot like the old Dick Van Dyke Show and the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Turned it into a workplace show, with Mike Henry in the news station with some quirky, funny characters. Get rid of the family besides him and Betsy Brandt (although I did like the daughter). Betsy Brandt would be the modern day Laura Petrie, but a side character. If Fox has a greater cast behind him in a workplace sitcom, it could have worked. However, the stupid older son, and the clueless sister (-in law) was a failure.

I have been screaming for several years, reboot the Dick Van Dyke Show starring Ed Helms and Ellie Kemper, basically with the same format as the old DVD show. It does not have to be the old DVD show, but fk, Helms and Kemper would be such a great Rob and Laura!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Helms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Kemper

Well, this answers my question on another post.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7#entry16292811

I wanted to give it a chance, but the turning point for me was when the daughter went dress shopping with her aunt instead of her mother. It made no sense. Her aunt is a mess, and she's old enough to see that & not think her aunt is cool. She's supposed to be smart too, but she doesn't think for a minute that her mother may have wanted that experience? The characters have no definition at all, they just jam them into whatever cliched storyline they decided to write this week.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7#entry16293352

Without I doubt, I place the majority of the blame on the writers. MJF, Betsy Brandt, and Wendell Pierce certainly weren't the issue, and I even think the rest of the cast wasn't bad. But the writers really dropped the ball, IMO. I found this show's writing and stories to be very lazy and cliched, and I really thought it would have been better, considering the on-screen talent. Also, I think, in general, this should would have been better if it concentrated more on Mike at the workplace. Some of the best moments were his rivalry with Anne Heche and hanging out with Harrison. Anything with his family tend to be dud, except his scenes with Annie.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7#entry16349780

I blame the executive producers, including Fox. The writing staff came from shows like Community, Arrested Development, Happy Endings -- granted, the first two of those are definitely heavily filtered through their own showrunners and probably Happy Endings was too. But I think the tonal choices that sunk the MJF show -- keeping it weirdly dated, as if it was a 2013 show with an almost late 80s sensibility to it -- came from the showrunners and Fox.

People tuned in at first, at least by the decrepit standards of NBC - the first night's numbers were a 2.2 rating. And then ratings dropped pretty hard and fast from there on out. My theory is that it was too safe and toothless for what people want in a family comedy these days. Modern Family still drags them in, and right now it's maybe a shade funnier than the MJF Show and a smidge less schmaltzy. But even MF is sharper-edged than the MJF Show.

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7#entry16385950

I read an article online that basically said "No-one wanted to watch because of MJF's Parkinson's", but I couldn't disagree more. That just seems too easy, and frankly, I think it's insulting to MJF and his talent. My personal experience is that I didn't want to watch because the writing was sub-par, the sister was annoying, the older kids were annoying, and they didn't seem to know what to do with Betsy Brandt. The most recent episode I watched involved Betsy trying to figure out who her sister-in-law's mysterious beau is, and whether or not he is The One. Really? That's all they could think of to have her do?

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3218504-the-michael-j-fox-show-who-knew-parkinsons-was-so-funny/page-7#entry16386158

I tried to watch, but the writing was terrible. It had nothing to do with MJF. To me, the show just felt very stale and dated. Like they dusted off a bunch of rejected scripts from the late 80s/early 90s. Just a bunch of tired, outdated tropes. Maybe they should have set it in the 80s and lampooned all those old tropes, if they were so set on dragging them out.

This show was terrible.

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/sony-email-hack-reveals-michael-j-fox-parkinsons-insurance-plan/

Michael J. Fox‘s announcement in 1999 that he had Parikinson’s disease stunned the world — and immediately cast a shadow over his career. Would the beloved Hollywood icon be able to maintain his leading man status as he battled the debilitating illness? Fox has managed to continue working steadily since his official diagnosis, but hacked Sony emails newly released by Wikileaks show just how much the studio had to sacrifice in order to get him back on air in a regular role.

After bit roles in Scrubs (2004), Boston Legal (2006), and Rescue Me (2009), Fox made his triumphant return to TV in 2013 with The Michael J. Fox Show. But the Wikileaks emails show that the process of insuring him for that leading role was difficult and costly.

The show was scheduled to begin filming in early May 2013, but just weeks before, emails were flying back and forth between Sony, reps for Fox, and insurance companies about how they could protect themselves from the potential fallout of having a leading man with a chronic illness.

According to the emails, Sony shopped around for “exclusion buy-back coverage for claims arising from Parkinson’s disease,” and eventually settled on a policy that would pay them up to $2,500,000 for any losses suffered because of Fox’s condition. The deductible was $175,000, with a gross premium of $150,000.

Sony paid the insurance company $150,000 on April 19, after Fox filled out and signed a medical certificate for the insurers, who asserted that any payout would be “limited to claims arising out of Parkinson’s disease only … and not any other contributing factors.”

Fox successfully completed filming of the first season with no issues, but his insurance policy ran out on December 1, 2013. After some hedging from NBC, the show was eventually cancelled as well.

And although Sony did not have to cash in on its Fox coverage, they did receive a six-figure insurance payout for another reason: According to the emails, they received a fat check for $133,359.74 from their insurers because of losses suffered to the NYC set during Hurricane Sandy in October 2013.

For more from the Sony leaks stay with Radar.

Michael J. Fox puts some of the blame for The Michael J. Fox Show's failure on NBC (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/magazine/six-things-we-learned-from-our-michael-j-fox-interview.html)

In a New York Times Magazine profile, Fox reveals new health scares (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-j-fox-reveals-new-health-scares-parkinsons-battle-1191671) amid his battle with Parkinson's disease. The former Family Ties star's brief return to the sitcom world in the 2013-14 season (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yAsYBkJroY) is also briefly addressed, with Fox saying that he doesn't think NBC was prepared to work with him -- and his disease. "I didn’t have the energy to keep the show on the track that I’d set it out on," he says. "And I think there was some trepidation on the part of the network. This is probably unfair but I feel like one day they woke up and said, 'Oh, he really has Parkinson’s.' Like somebody saw me tremoring in rehearsal and said, 'What’s wrong with him?' 'Uh, he has Parkinson’s, remember? It’s the premise of the show.' But the point was never that Parkinson’s is funny. It’s about how we take on things in our lives, and how that reaction is reinforced by the reactions of the people around us. Like, my family is extraordinary because they give me (expletive) all the time. Because to not do that." Fox also discussed leaving Spin City after realizing his particular acting charm was beginning to fade due to his Parkinson's. “I used a lot of high-level muggery,” he says. “I could pull a face; I could do a double take. And one of the reasons I left Spin City was that I felt my face hardening.”

12 Years Later, I'm Still Disappointed About NBC Quietly Canceling This Forgotten Michael J. Fox Sitcom (https://www.cbr.com/nbc-canceled-michael-j-fox-show/)

Michael J. Fox is a movie and TV icon, but his sitcom (https://www.cbr.com/tag/tv-show/the-michael-j-fox-show/) never got the necessary time to shine due to cancellation.

He and Doc Brown should go back to 1955 again :)