Is The Class canceled or did ...
Question: Is
The Class canceled or did it just have an early season finale? I'm so disappointed if it is canceled! It has turned out to be one of my favorite shows!
Answer: Tonight's episode is an early season finale, fulfilling a shortened season order of 19 episodes, but it could well be the first step toward a cancellation. (Shades of last season's
Out of Practice.) It's too bad.
The Class is still figuring itself out, but there are a handful of characters here (Ethan and Kat, Richie and Lina, Nicole and Duncan) I'd like to see more of. It's just that the show lacks a center, with more tenuous connections between the couples than on
David Crane's hard-to-surpass
Friends. If the prime-time environment were more hospitable to comedy, there might be room for
The Class to return and evolve. But with CBS having basically a single two-hour comedy block to work with, and with
Rules of Engagement doing well enough after
Two and a Half Men to be a lock for renewal (groan), its prospects look pretty dismal.
