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Fox canceled Tru Calling, but...
...there is a new show, very similar to "Tru Calling" and a huge success. Furthermore, did Fox cancel Tru, because of a show with good-looking actors? |
 Columnist Susan Young:
Readers write. I respond. Recently, however, it occurred to me that maybe other people might have the same questions.
So for Gary Rovasio and other readers wondering whatever happened to the Fox supernatural drama "Tru Calling," we've got the answer: Canceled.
Six episodes are left of the series starring Eliza Dushku as a woman who speaks to dead people. Fox says the remaining episodes will air sometime this year, but no dates have been set.
But in the world of television, no good — or bad — idea ever goes out of fashion. NBC has a new series, "Medium," airing at 10 p.m. Monday on Channel 11 centering on a woman (Patricia Arquette) who talks to dead people and solves crimes with their input. It's based on a real-life medium who works in Arizona. Ratings are soaring, and NBC has already announced a second season for the series.
 And Dawn Parouse, the producer of "Tru Calling," is now co-producing the new Fox series "Point Pleasant" airing at 9 tonight on KTVU-Channel 2 following "The O.C." at 8. She's working with Marti Noxon ("Angel," "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer").
"Point Pleasant" centers on a pretty young girl who happens to be the spawn of Satan — but is trying to find her kinder, gentler side with the help of some newfound friends.
"What changed for us was when we saw 'Point Pleasant,' we felt we had a show that was incredibly compatible with 'The O.C.,'" Fox entertainment president Gail Berman says. "Our thoughts changed, not so much about 'Tru Calling' but the possibility that something might make some headway for us in that incredibly competitive time period."
That's executive-speak for "Tru Calling" not getting enough people watching. Fox thinks it just might have a chance in hell of getting some ratings if they replaced "Tru" with a series featuring good-looking people having hot affairs against a good vs. evil backdrop.
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