{"id":13606,"date":"2011-12-20T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=13606"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:44:20","slug":"hbo-cancels-bored-to-death-hung-how-to-make-it-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/12\/20\/hbo-cancels-bored-to-death-hung-how-to-make-it-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Cancels &#8220;Bored to Death,&#8221; &#8220;Hung,&#8221; &#8220;How to Make it in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was not a great day for comedies at HBO; the premium network canceled three of its four humorous series.<\/p>\n<p>Following their second and third seasons, respectively, Sunday comedies &#8220;How to Make it in America&#8221; and &#8220;Hung&#8221; are officially done.  Neither, particularly, the former, had performed well in the ratings this year, and as neither generates sufficient critical acclaim or buzz (though &#8220;Hung&#8221; has garnered the occasional award nomination), it made sense for HBO to part ways with the series, especially with a number of potential series in development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bored to Death&#8221; had a high-profile cast with Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis, but its ratings were also quite low&#8211;the same 2.3 million per week across all platforms as &#8220;America&#8221;&#8211;and it was time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, &#8220;Enlightened,&#8221; the lowest-rated of HBO&#8217;s comedies, is the one that received a second season renewal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO Cancels &quot;Bored to Death,&quot; &quot;Hung,&quot; &quot;How to Make it in America&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tuesday was not a great day for comedies at HBO; the premium network canceled three of its four humorous series. 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