2012 Fall Season Deaths, Part I: Last Resort and More

Well, we knew it would happen.  The fall season is finally sorting itself out and some shows are winners while other are dying.  One show that will not make it past the first season is ABC's Last Resort, a show about a renegade nuclear submarine hiding away in a tropical paradise, or so it would seem.  I am not sure if they are going for Lost with nukes or something else, but I did not think the show's plot could last beyond a season (similar to NBC's The Event) and I was right.  ABC has cancelled Last Resort after its 13-epidose first season run.  That is better than the options, such as killing it mid-season and taking it off the air.  And while many may be unhappy, it seems the writers on the show still have time to tie it all up with a nice bow.  Maybe this should have been the plan all along. 

ABC has also cancelled 666 Park Avenue, a show with a great cast trying to support a lame plot.  What is sad is that this show, as with The New Normal, has been the target of the ever odd One Million Moms (has anyone really counted their number?).  The group quotes ABC's own publicity that this new show will be a cross between "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Shining."  If only it were so, then it might be worth watching.  Maybe we need a group called One Million Intelligent Viewers who can shout programs off the air when they no longer make any sense.