HBO has announced that it's canceling "Lucky Louie," the sitcom starring and created by Louis CK that aired for just one season this past summer.
I know most people hated this show, and I agree that it was very hit-or-miss a lot of the time, never quite reaching the heights of CK's brilliant stand-up, on which it was based. But I thought it was both quite funny, and told a lot of uncomfortable truths about marriage and family life. It also got much better as its season went along. I could have seen it growing a lot in future years, and I could see it finding an audience on DVD (even "The Comeback," the worst show in the history of HBO, has become a second-chance DVD hit).
Then again, HBO earned enough karma points for a decade earlier this month when they renewed "The Wire," so I'm in no position to really complain.
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 21, 2006 01:43 PM