It’s Friday night, so let’s check out the loose grave where ABC dropped its newly canceled show

It’s Friday night, that special time of the week when networks feel most comfortable — like gods — dealing with the dark work of their struggling, underperforming, or “too expensive” shows. So it’s time for us to do our part and poke a stick into the loose graves where the bodies were dumped and see if — oh yeah, wow, ABC killed a lot of TV tonight, huh?

Specifically: threonine Report The Disney-owned network quickly and bloodily wrapped up three of its series tonight: alaska daily, big skyand the company you keep. alaska daily and the company you keep All products of the first season; big sky The third season ended in January.

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Well, let’s identify these suckers for their close relatives:

alaska daily Created by Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, it would most likely be called “Hilary Swank’s hour-long drama in the making” to those who haven’t seen it. Swank stars as a former New York reporter trying to rebuild her life in Anchorage with Jeff Perry, Grace Dorff, Meredith Holzman, Matt Ma Lowe, Pablo Castelblanco, Amie Parker and other journalists played by Craig Frank join forces to investigate stories about missing and murdered Indigenous women. The show aired its series finale on March 30.

the company you keep Run with the most classic TV locales, the star-crossed lovers of a con man and a CIA agent. TV mainstay Milo Ventimiglia has been branded a con man who finds himself having an affair with Catherine Henna King’s international spy. Sarah Wayne Callies, Polly Draper, William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, James Saito, Freda Foh Shen and Felisha Terrell co-star. The series aired its final episode on May 7; it too, In the words of our very own Mary Kate Carr“The Best Sunday Show You Didn’t Watch,” ABC/Everybody Did Badly.

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at last, big sky is the latest crime drama to emerge from the ever-active mind of David E. Kelley, starring Katheryn Winnick and Kylie Bunbury, who Play as a detective and solve a series of gruesome kidnappings and murders in rural Montana.the show rebranded itself as Big Sky: Deadly Footsteps in its final season, although perhaps it should call itself Big Sky: Reba McIntire Starsbecause she did.

The cancellation comes as ABC gears up for next week’s run-up, and the network will have to roll out a schedule for the fall — one that will likely feature less scripted content, a slew of reality shows and imports as the WGA strike continues. show. Still, as far as “ABC massacre leads to the front,” this Lighter than some we’ve seen in the past.

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