CBS Cancels "Bad Teacher"
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
May 10, 2014


CBS has canceled mid-season entry "Bad Teacher" after only 3-episodes into its run. The comedy, based on the hit movie, exceeded ratings expectations in its debut but dropped off in Episodes 2 and 3.

Still, some thought CBS would wait until after the upfronts to make a decision on its future to give it more time.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/crazy-ones-cbs-cancelled-bad-teacher-hostages-bad-teacher/

Yeah, please do not make a TV series called "Horrible Bosses", otherwise, everything will get worse in all TV studios!

Had a feeling that this would only go the 13 episodes produced, Was recording them as I'm a fan of the movie and C Diaz did get a producer credit on the series.....

Think as usual CBS jumped the gun, the series was quite tame compaired to the movie and it really overly humanized "The Teacher", to be honest, it was all about the casting & weak writing on the page as usual, the lead was sexy enough, but not enough, and Sara Gilbert was probably the best but had not much material. The principle didn't work at all, but why not just burn off a series that was all shot and in the can?, guess the all important "May Sweeps" needs another "Big Bang" rerun....not a slam to "Big Bang"....I have watched since episode #1, but cancelling a test series after three airings that are fully finished, is just a waste, at least "rest it" and burn off the remaining 10 episodes on Saturdays in the summer!

I liked it! Saw all three episodes. I think one problem was that the lead character was unlikable (she was an egotistical, gold digger who lied to get a job she was unqualified for). I think characters, and especially leads need to be likeable.

I know nothing of network programming, but shows that debut in April and May is usually the stuff the network has made but has the littlest faith in. A show debuting in late Spring is much less important than one debuting in September. Basically the show has been made, but it is a second stringer, and if a fall show fails, this goes into the slot. That is seemingly how it works to me.

Dads, Growing Up Fischer and now this show. Three I liked that died young.

My best friend said this was a cute show but I never watched it. I didn't really like the title so I ignored it on purpose.

Wow, that was fast!! I didnt watch it but I didnt think it would be canned that fast. Dont you think 3 episodes is too short to cancel a show? I mean you could bill an audience although it takes time.

Had a feeling that this would only go the 13 episodes produced, Was recording them as I'm a fan of the movie and C Diaz did get a producer credit on the series.....

Think as usual CBS jumped the gun, the series was quite tame compaired to the movie and it really overly humanized "The Teacher", to be honest, it was all about the casting & weak writing on the page as usual, the lead was sexy enough, but not enough, and Sara Gilbert was probably the best but had not much material. The principle didn't work at all, but why not just burn off a series that was all shot and in the can?, guess the all important "May Sweeps" needs another "Big Bang" rerun....not a slam to "Big Bang"....I have watched since episode #1, but cancelling a test series after three airings that are fully finished, is just a waste, at least "rest it" and burn off the remaining 10 episodes on Saturdays in the summer!


Freakin' Agreed. Too soon to be canceling the show.

Well episode #4 of 13 has aired, and #5 was promoted for next thursday, May 22, 2014....so that would make 8 more to go to at least air the already shot and completed 13 episodes.....

I think as usual the media/internet gave the impression the show was being pulled off the air when it stated "CBS cancelled it", instead of saying it was not being picked up for fall.....since the CBS upfronts were this week, but wouldn't it be funny if the ratings started to pick up during the run?....I mean 6 million for episode #3 isn't bad at all!

I know why "Bad Teacher" was cancelled (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.tv/kW4h6Hq71vc):lol:

I didn't read your link, not for any reason except I don't like being directed to links when I am reading and dedicated to the site I am contributing, but whatever the network reason, it was still reported as being pulled.....it was a 13 episode order, will all 13 air? who knows but as of this writing episode #5 is scheduled to air as written in my post above yours.

Maybe it was going to be pulled, then a little "pillow talk" from Julie Chen to hubby Les convinced him to let her co-worker & friends' Sara Gilbert's series play out, though it is May sweeps.

It was never going to go beyond 13 episodes, weak writing, no real laughs, and a one note premise.....let's face it.....how many times can she look for a rich man to marry as a teacher? With a lesson learned in the end.

This series hopefully will have all already produced 13 episodes aired, then it will vanish forever in TV history as another "movie to series" failure, and certainly will be a nice pairing for those who found the movie hysterical, especially the even more raunchy uncut version on DVD. The series quite tame by comparison........

lastly CBS airs "Two Broke Girls" I am far from a prude, but it is the dirtiest network sitcom on TV, so it couldn't have been the very tame sexual content.

It was for all what I have written in now what is my third & last post on the subject.

CBS Pulls Canceled Comedy "Bad Teacher" from Schedule
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
May 27, 2014


We may have seen the last of midseason CBS comedy series "Bad Teacher" as CBS has quietly pulled it from the schedule.

Repeats of "Mom" will move into "Friends with Better Lives‘" Monday 8:30 PM slot, where it will air next fall. Starting this week, fellow renewed freshman comedy "The Millers", which will return to the Thursday 8:30 PM slot in the fall, will temporarily move to the 9:30 PM berth currently occupied by "Bad Teacher", following "Two and a Half Men".

There are no plans at the moment for the remaining episodes of "Bad Teacher", which has aired 5 of its 13 produced episodes.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/cbs-pulls-cancelled-comedies-friends-with-better-lives-bad-teacher-from-schedule/

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This series had a lot of potential to be an eventual hit. They pulled the plug too early as it
had a lot of talented and likable cast members. Hopefully someone will see what this series
could become and save it from the scrapheap.

CBS Pulls Canceled Comedy "Bad Teacher" from Schedule
by NELLIE ANDREEVA
May 27, 2014


We may have seen the last of midseason CBS comedy series "Bad Teacher" as CBS has quietly pulled it from the schedule.

Repeats of "Mom" will move into "Friends with Better Lives‘" Monday 8:30 PM slot, where it will air next fall. Starting this week, fellow renewed freshman comedy "The Millers", which will return to the Thursday 8:30 PM slot in the fall, will temporarily move to the 9:30 PM berth currently occupied by "Bad Teacher", following "Two and a Half Men".

There are no plans at the moment for the remaining episodes of "Bad Teacher", which has aired 5 of its 13 produced episodes.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/cbs-pulls-cancelled-comedies-friends-with-better-lives-bad-teacher-from-schedule/
That's good. I thought it was a bad show.

This show was awful and not funny.

Good riddance!

Thank the good Lord for small favors. Terrible show.

Ed.

Well you better not create a "Horrible Boss" sitcom at all.

10 Awesome Performances Trapped In TERRIBLE TV Shows (https://whatculture.com/tv/10-awesome-performances-trapped-in-terrible-tv-shows?page=10)

1. Ari Graynor - Bad Teacher

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Though Hollywood is obsessed with adapting every moderately successful movie into its own long-running TV series, there are honestly far more offensive ideas than translating the hit 2011 Cameron Diaz-starring comedy film Bad Teacher into a show.

The short-lived 2014 series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Teacher_(TV_series)) starred Ari Graynor as Meredith Davis, a gold-digging former housewife who poses as a high school teacher in the hope of finding a wealthy divorcée to marry.

It's a decent enough setup, yet not one which the show does anything interesting with, resorting to the most pat, predictable, sentimental sitcom storytelling while lacking the ribald R-rated edge that made the movie such a hoot.

The single saving grace is lead Ari Graynor - an extremely appealing actress who has cornered the market on playing sloppy trainwrecks over the years, yet hasn't ever quite received a mainstream project worthy of her skills.

Even so, she gives a full-throated and completely persuasive performance as Meredith, albeit one that's squandered on trash-tier writing in an overly sanitised adaptation of the film.

Had this been on a more permissive network like HBO or Showtime and secured the talents of more imaginative writers, it's easy to picture it having been a hit and propelling Graynor to sure stardom.