{"id":32957,"date":"2015-01-09T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=32957"},"modified":"2015-01-09T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T05:23:00","slug":"unhappy-news-happyland-mtv-cancels-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/01\/09\/unhappy-news-happyland-mtv-cancels-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy News for &#8220;Happyland;&#8221; MTV Cancels the Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While freshman comedy &#8220;Happyland&#8221; did resonate with its core audience, MTV deemed that core audience too small.  News came Thursday that the network opted not to order a second season of the series.<\/p>\n<p>A half-hour comedy set in a Walt Disney World-like amusement park, &#8220;Happyland&#8221; aired in an unusual 11PM ET timeslot.  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