TNT has let the ax fall on its freshman series Trust Me, which failed to live up to the ratings standards of the cable channel’s other originals.
The series, which starred Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh as friends and colleagues at a Chicago ad agency, has officially been canceled, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Its last episode aired earlier this week.
Trust Me premiered to 3.4 million viewers on Jan. 26. That’s usually a pretty decent number for a cable series, but in this case Trust Me lost about half the audience from its lead-in, an original episode of The Closer. The following week, the show dipped under 2 million viewers.
Given those ratings struggles — and the fact that McCormack took a role in an ABC comedy pilot last month — news of the cancellation comes as little surprise.
The cable channel’s cupboard is hardly bare. Three new shows — Ray Romano’s dramedy Men of a Certain Age, cop show The Line and medical drama Time Heals — are scheduled to premiere later this year.
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